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...think it is easy to educate people into self-control. Population control is vital today because we are poor. Now it can be done only by artificial means by the common people. Therefore, we must give them those means, but they must be voluntary and not compulsory. [Mrs. Gandhi] paid the price only because of this-old men have been vasectomized, unmarried people have been vasectomized, young boys have been vasectomized. [The election result] is a revolt against all that. We would not have won otherwise. I agree with incentives because I believe both in the carrot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World: Morarji Desai: The Ascetic Activist | 4/4/1977 | See Source »

...issue, above everything else, cost Indira Gandhi the election: her mass sterilization campaign. No one questions that India needs effective family planning; after all, the country's population has almost doubled in 30 years (to 620 million) and may reach one billion by the year 2000. But the government's program to vasectomize millions of Indian males who had fathered two or more children-ruthlessly and often illegally applied-came to symbolize the dangers of authoritarian rule. TIME New Delhi Bureau Chief Lawrence Malkin reports...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World: The Issue that Inflamed India | 4/4/1977 | See Source »

...millions of ordinary people, sterilization was the cutting edge of the government's restriction of liberties. With a target of 4.3 million sterilizations, the campaign actually produced 7.8 million between April 1976 and January 1977, when Mrs. Gandhi called for national elections. To help ensure the program's success, government censors prohibited newspapers from publishing any criticism of family planning. The program was pressed by the governmental bureaucracy, from New Delhi to the district level, and quickly became the pet project of Indira's zealous son, Sanjay...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World: The Issue that Inflamed India | 4/4/1977 | See Source »

...quota for Uttar Pradesh had been set at 400,000, but the chief minister raised it to 1.5 million, presumably to please Sanjay. Some 700,000 operations were actually performed, a phenomenal increase over the previous year's total of 129,000. Villagers told bitter jokes against Mrs. Gandhi, one of them based on her 1971 election slogan, GARIBI HATAO (abolish poverty). The new slogan: INDIRA HATAO, INDRI BACHAO (abolish Indira and save your penis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World: The Issue that Inflamed India | 4/4/1977 | See Source »

...bloody incident at Muzaffarnagar, the government ignored the possibility that the program was in trouble. When one citizen of the city complained to D.K. Barooah, president of the Congress Party, Barooah told him to talk to the "high command." As instructed, the citizen of Muzaffarnagar telephoned Mrs. Gandhi's office and reached her private secretary, R.K. Dhawan. Informed that the call was coming from Muzaffarnagar, he hung...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World: The Issue that Inflamed India | 4/4/1977 | See Source »

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