Word: gandhis
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Mahatma Gandhi once said, "is a poem of pity." Last week India's sacred animal brought not pity but violence to the very doorstep of government. The occasion was a rally of 125,000 Hindus, who had come from all over India to pressure the government of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi into enacting a national ban on cattle slaughter. Converging on a traffic circle near Parliament, the demonstrators at first listened peacefully to speeches. Then a sadhu (Hindu holy man), a member of Parliament, sprang onto the speaker's stand. He had just been ushered...
...Unbowing Bosses. Another casualty was Home Minister Gulzarilat Nanda. Indira Gandhi has been under so much criticism in recent weeks for fail ing to take stern measures against In dia's growing wave of rioting that she realized it was time to take decisive action. So, out went the 68-year-old ascetic who had served for the past 15 years in one Cabinet post or another...
...Gandhi had a scheme of her own. She intended to use Nanda's ouster as an opportunity to reshuffle the Cabinet, which she had inherited almost intact from Lai Bahadur Shastri and had so far been unable to alter. Her plan was to give the Home Ministry to able Defense Minister Y. B. Chavan and install other favorites in the finance and commerce slots...
With the question of the breakdown of law and order looming as a chief issue in next February's national elections, Indira Gandhi now was more on the spot than ever...
...Parliament convened last week for the final session before next February's national elections, six no-confidence measures were introduced against Prime Minister Indira Gandhi and her government by opposition parties, on everything from the stagnating economic situation to "self-righteous" foreign policy. Cried Minoo Masani, leader of the conservative Swatantra Party: "For God's sake, go while there is still some administration and order left! Do not destroy the country before...