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...SANJAY GANDHI--The 30-year-old son of the Prime Minister, Sanjay has become a political force recently and is being groomed by his mother as a possible successor some...
MORARJ DESAI--The former Deputy Prime Minister of India, Desai was imprisoned after resigning from Gandhi's cabinet in protest over the declared "emergency" rule. Desai was released from prison in January and immediately organized the opposition to Gandhi's regime into the Janata coalition...
Birth Control. The government also set out to abolish the illegal "parallel economy" that had flourished alongside the official one. About 1,300 smugglers were thrown in jail. Mrs. Gandhi, on the other hand, declared an amnesty from criminal charges for people who had failed to pay sufficient taxes-often on wealth accumulated from undeclared remittances sent home by Indians living abroad-provided they declared their holdings and paid taxes and a penalty on them. Large sums that would otherwise have been spent on such luxury items as cars and air conditioners flowed into the treasury, adding to foreign exchange...
Many problems remain. Bad weather over the next few years could wipe out food-production gains. Businessmen generally support Mrs. Gandhi's programs, but complain that investment is restricted by monetary and credit controls imposed to hold down inflation...
...money to increase production in "core" industries, including oil and fertilizers. Liberalization of import controls is bringing in raw materials for export industries and supplies of scarce commodities such as cotton and cooking oil. And, assuming her Congress Party wins the March elections-which it almost surely will-Mrs. Gandhi will have to deal with an unaccustomed problem of plenty: how to distribute surplus food before it rots in the fields...