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...Revolutionary Turn? As far as Indira's leftist supporters are concerned, she is not going nearly far enough. Chandra Shekhar, a leader of the so-called "Young Turks," says: "People have lost patience. They have waited 22 years [since independence], and nothing has been done." Unless the resolutions are acted upon soon, Shekhar warns, "history in India will take a revolutionary turn." That may be an exaggeration, but the left's increasing restiveness is becoming a problem for Indira. Only two days after the party meeting in Bombay came to an end, her government announced that the giant...
...Even the Syndicate, the Congress Party's conservative branch, has taken note of the fact that the idea of socialism exerts irresistible magic in Indian politics. A week before Indira's faction met in Bombay, the rival Syndicate gathered in Ahmedabad and found it expedient to shift markedly to the left in its own economic sloganizing. Syndicate leaders, however, were seriously considering talks with a couple of right-wing Indian parties to form an anti-Indira coalition. In public, some of the faction's orators savagely attacked the Prime Minister. Mrs. Tarakeshwari Sinha, for example, won heavy...
...chief supporter, Home Minister Y. B. Chavan, put the entire blame on the Syndicate for splitting the party, and Food Minister Jagjivan Ram exhorted Indira's supporters to keep up their attendance at the Parliament. Though the party split leaves Indira some 40 seats short of a majority in the Lok Sabha (lower house of Parliament), she intends to try to remain in power. For the time being, at least, she seems assured of sufficient support. She commands the backing of the 25 members of the Dravidian Advancement Party, a regional grouping that seeks south Indian independence. She also...
Party. The most likely leader of the Syndicate's Congress wing is Dr. Ram Subhag Singh, 52, whom Indira fired two weeks ago as Railways Minister because of his association with her rivals. It was even possible that Indira and her backers might move to read the Syndicate bosses and their supporters out of the Congress Party...
...Indira was probably happy to be rid of the conservative bosses, whom she blames for the party's decline. "The people are clamoring for a faster pace," she said recently. "Congress has not been keeping pace with the changing times and the new generation." Free of the foot dragging of the Syndicate, which is composed largely of aging men, Indira now has the opportunity to mold the party into a more attractive-and constructive-political force...