Word: gandhis
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Prime Minister Indira Gandhi last week won overwhelming parliamentary approval for the dictatorship euphemistically known as a state of emergency, which she proclaimed on June 26. It was a rather hollow victory. After the lopsided votes in the upper and lower houses, most members of the opposition stalked out in protest...
That Mrs. Gandhi's government permitted the demonstrations, despite the ban on public gatherings of more than four persons, seemed an abrupt contradiction of the warm and friendly remarks she directed toward America a week ago when she praised "great fighters like Jefferson and Lincoln." She may now feel she needs the CIA as a scapegoat for India's current crisis...
Meanwhile Mrs. Gandhi has been carrying on with an economic program geared to win and retain her broad public backing. With organized labor already solidly behind her, she has been wooing businessmen by assuring them that she has no current plans for further nationalization of industries and by warning labor to eliminate crippling strikes. In a belated effort to nudge India's notoriously slothful bureaucracy, the government has been cracking down on civil service inefficiency. Minister of State Mohammed Shafi Qureshi paid a surprise visit to the railway headquarters just after the working day began. Finding that 150 employees...
Since the declaration of the state of emergency, Mrs. Gandhi has been careful to remain technically within the bounds of legality. Last week she announced that Parliament would convene on July 21 for a week-long session. The constitution requires parliamentary approval of a state of emergency within 60 days of its imposition. Since the Congress Party has a two-thirds majority in the powerful lower house, Mrs. Gandhi will have...
...Gandhi must also worry about how the Supreme Court will rule on her petition to reverse a lower-court decision finding her guilty of corrupt practices during the 1971 election campaign. The ruling by the court is expected in one to three months. If she loses her appeal, she will be ordered to resign her seat in Parliament-and hence as Prime Minister. In this case, however, the Election Commissioner is expected to set aside the ruling that Mrs. Gandhi must forfeit her seat. By then, Parliament will probably have indefinitely extended the state of emergency, which would enable...