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...choice was being debated in a small bungalow on a dusty New Delhi road. There, draped in a white longhi, Kumaraswami Kamaraj Nadar, 63, the barrel-chested kingmaker of the Congress Party, received a stream of state leaders and other important politicians, testing the political breezes for signs of support for the various candidates...
Hardly Shy. At first, Kamaraj seemed to consider Y. B. Chavan, 51, Shastri's Defense Minister and former Chief Minister of Maharashtra state. But he gave up on him (too many political enemies), passed over Interim Prime Minister Gulzarilal Nanda (lackluster), and ruled himself out on the ground that he speaks neither Hindi nor English. Increasingly, Kamaraj found that the person with the fewest serious enemies, the widest reputation and the most attractive personality was Indira Gandhi. Nor was the lady shy. "I will do what Mr. Kamaraj wants me to," she told reporters. Her main competition came from...
...Delhi and Madras-has its own similarities and its own distinctions. Calcutta and Bombay are linked in their visual splendor and their vicious slums; wealth and poverty exist cool cheek by grizzled jowl. Madras, with its burgeoning Hindu evangelism (backed by Shastri's strongman, Congress Party President Kumaraswami Kamaraj), is less metropolitan but more leisurely. Where Bombay is sparked by its Parsi businessmen (descended from 8th century Persian fire worshipers), Madras is tempered by Tamil intellectualism. New Delhi-founded in 1911 by the British -is the youngest of the nation's great cities, and its least distinctive. Dust...
...Kumaraswami Kamaraj Nadar, 63, barrel-chested boss of Madras, who as president of the Congress Party dreamed up the consensus scheme as a means of installing Shastri after Nehru's death. But Kamaraj speaks only Tamil, and even if Shastri were to vanish, would be content to remain only a kingmaker and cash collector for the party. Last week Kamaraj was touring his home state, preceded by an elephant with bells on its toes, to celebrate his birthday. In lieu of gifts he collected $350,000 for the party coffers...
Return to the Raj? The strength of the Syndicate was best demonstrated at the recent meeting of the Congress's All-India Committee in Bangalore (TIME, Aug. 6). There Shastri carefully coaxed his fellow Congressmen into reappointing Kamaraj as party president, thus perpetuating the chance for consensus in the 1967 elections. But the Congress-led by Gandhi strictly as a revolutionary movement-is perverting the purpose for which it was conceived. Gandhi had urged the party to dissolve itself after independence was gained...