Word: kamaraj
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...Glass House, a graceful, open-air structure modeled after London's Crystal Palace, the Congress congeries was faced with choosing a successor to the party president. Under party rules, the president cannot succeed himself after his two-year term is up, but the current president, muscular, mustachioed Kumaraswami Kamaraj Nadar, 62, is a close political ally of Shastri. Looking ahead to the 1967 elections, Shastri wanted someone atop the party machinery to select pro-Shastri candidates for the next parliamentary slate. Shyly but firmly, Shastri let it be known that anyone who wanted to change the party rules...
...course, torpedo Desai's chances over the next two years, and he promptly attacked it as "a negation of democracy." The impact of his charge was quickly dissipated: as Desai ended his speech before the hushed house, the chair ruthlessly adjourned for lunch. A few hours later, Kamaraj was reinstated as Congress president...
Nothing is simple in India, including Shastri's unanimous election. He was the clear choice of the country's three kingmakers, 1) Congress Party President Kamaraj Nadar, who controls four south Indian states, 2) Atulya Ghosh, boss of eastern India, and 3) Bombay's S. K. Patil, who personally directs some 100 of the 537 Congress Party M.P.s. All three closed ranks behind Shastri as the man most capable of bringing "unity" to the nation. And all three opposed the only other candidate, conservative, autocratic Morarji Desai, the former Finance Minister, who was supported by rightists, leftists...
...wake of three parliamentary by-election defeats last spring, Nehru announced that he would ask a dozen top Cabinet and state ministers to resign from the government in order to let them go to work revitalizing the party organization and rebuilding its strength among the voters. But the Kamaraj* plan was really used by the Prime Minister as a ruse to flush out all the top contenders for his own job. There is even widespread suspicion that Nehru forced the resignations of his ablest ministers in order to clear the way for his daughter, imperious Indira Gandhi, 45, widow...