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Repulsed by police with staves, the mob stormed the headquarters of All India Radio, invaded other nearby government buildings and residences, including the home of Congress Party President K. Kamaraj Nadar (he escaped through a back door). Other demonstrators set fire to 56 cars and buses and 26 motor scooters. In desperation, the police broke out rifles, began firing down Parliament Street to frighten away the rioters. In the melee, eight persons were killed, 111 injured...
Finance Minister Morarji Desai, 70, an unbending rightist. Also in the wings: Kumaraswami Kamaraj Nadar, 63, the kingmaker of the party, who some say is so unhappy with Indira that he is considering taking the job himself...
...with the top people of the Congress Party. Normally, that would mean the "syndicate," the handful of political bosses who have recently dominated the party, and who stage-managed Shastri's smooth ascension to power. This time the kingmakers were divided. The most prominent of them all, mustachioed Kumaraswami Kamaraj Nadar, 63, had angered the others by holding on to his post as party president for a second term. Without so much as a bow to him, the remaining syndicate members settled on Nanda as their candidate...
They had not reckoned on Kamaraj, a tough, old-line politician, who controls Madras state; he is not above putting the arm on businessmen and just about everybody else in sight to fill the party's coffers. He has ruled himself out for national office, because he speaks only Tamil. On the news of Shastri's death, he had flown from his home in the south to Delhi, muttering: "What to do? Unity! Indira?" In Delhi he kept the thought to himself and did his best to find a candidate with the widest support. Neither the syndicate nor Kamaraj wanted...
...Kamaraj listened to their views, he began to realize that his first hunch about Indira and, unity was right: she had by far the fewest enemies and by far the widest reputation. With ten of the 15 chief ministers lined up behind Indira, Kamaraj went to Desai, asking him for the sake of party unity to call off his fight. But Desai adamantly refused, vowing to force an election within the party. Now Kamaraj had to bring his candidate out in the open. He sent a message to Indira: "We are old, and the next time you wish...