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While her opponents danced in the streets of Bombay, threw confetti in Calcutta, and held victory parades in Madras, Indira Gandhi retreated into the seclusion of her modest New Delhi bungalow. There was ample reason for gloom. The Congress Party, which has ruled India for 20 years and won elections with clocklike regularity, suffered setbacks in India's fourth general elections that far exceeded even the most pessimistic predictions and imperiled Indira's chances of continuing as Prime Minister...
...week's end, the Congress Party appeared to have lost nearly 100 seats in the new Parliament, coming in with a majority of only 24, v. its previous 123, in the 521-seat body. Indira Gandhi reacted philosophically. "We have proved to the world that we have a fair and free election," she said. "That is the whole idea of having a democracy...
...Galore. The party, which is an unwieldy conglomerate of rival, disparate factions, lost ground for just about all the reasons that can flare up in a hungry, desperate land. It was blamed for the food shortages that are plaguing India for the second successive year; for violent riots, which Indira's permissiveness sometimes seemed to encourage; and for the country's stagnant economy, which no amount of five-year plans and doses of bureaucratic management have managed to get off dead center. Not all the blame rightfully belongs to Indira: India, especially during a drought, is an almost...
Prime Decision. This week the powerful working committee of the Congress Party will convene in New Delhi to talk about who should be Prime Minister when a new government is formed in April. If the party decides to bypass Indira, the choice is most likely to fall on Morarji Desai, 71, the ascetic longtime Finance Minister in Nehru's Cabinet, who won re-election by the biggest (80%) margin of any leading Congress Party politician...
Beaten by Indira in last year's race for Prime Minister, a badly miffed Desai remained aloof from her administration. He now stands as an alternative to her policies, since he would undoubtedly crack down on violence, actively encourage foreign investment, and cut back on government controls of business. Other possibilities for Prime Minister: Y. B. Chavan, 53, the able Home Minister, and D. P. Mishra, 65, chief minister of Madhya Pradesh, who led the party to a big victory in his state...