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...Marwah, a professor at Clark University who visited India last month, said that Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi imposed a state of emergency two years ago in response to a power struggle between two factions of India's governing elite...
...conflict started in 1969 when some senior members of the ruling National Congress Party, unhappy with Gandhi's policies, began to organize opposition to her government's program, Marwah said...
Marwah said that, party because of Gandhi's authoritarian policies, the Indian economy is the healthiest it has been in the past several years, but he added he did not recommend declaring a state of emergency to stimulate a faltering economy...
Marwah's talk also touched on India's sterilization program, the role of the press in the upcoming campaign and the political fortunes of Gandhi's son Sanjay, leader of the Indian Youth Congress...
Died. Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed, 72, fifth President of India and staunch supporter of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi; of a heart attack; in New Delhi. A lifelong champion of democracy and secular rule in India, the Moslem-born, Cambridge-educated Ahmed joined his country's independence movement in 1931, and was jailed twice by the British. His last official act was to sign an order for new parliamentary elections...