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...Indira Gandhi bids for a comeback...
Across the Indian subcontinent, the people whom Mohandas Gandhi once lovingly called harijans (children of God) began to find their voices. The 85 million harijans, or Untouchables, who are the lowest in the rigid Hindu caste system, had thought for a brief moment last week that durable Jagjivan Ram, 71, the widely acknowledged leader of India's politically potent harijans, was soon to be Prime Minister. It was not to be. Their hopes were dashed by a bitter impasse in India's parliamentary system that culminated in an unprecedented constitutional crisis...
Most people, in some corner of their mental luggage, carry images of F.D.R., Churchill, Stalin, Gandhi, De Gaulle, Mao and other archetypes as large in memory as Easter Island moai heads...
Singh will head the first coalition government in India's postcolonial years. His unstable support consists of his own faction of the multiparty Janata group that supported Desai until recently, plus two rival branches of the Congress Party, one of which is headed by former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi. So precarious is this coalition that Reddy, in his letter asking Singh to form a government, requested that the new Prime Minister seek a vote of confidence in the lower house "at the earliest possible opportunity...
Singh's willingness to accept Gandhi's support opened him up to charges of opportunism. Singh was said to have accused her of being a congenital liar who had conspired to murder opposition leaders. One of those leaders was Singh himself, who had been jailed by Indira during her 19-month state of emergency...