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...strengthen the Prime Minister's hand in the six of India's 22 states that Congress (I) did not control. Only six weeks before Rama Rao's fall in Andhra Pradesh, Gandhi loyalists had similarly ousted the chief minister of the northern state of Jammu and Kashmir. The furor over Rama Rao's removal has probably bought time for the chief ministers of the other four states-Karnataka, Tripura, Tamil Nadu and West Bengal. In an unaccustomed show of unity last week, opposition politicians met in New Delhi to protest what they called the "blatantly unconstitutional...
There was an eerie sense of familiarity to the drama. For hours on end last week planes filled with heavily armed Indian paramilitary forces thundered into the airport outside Srinagar, capital of the mountainous northern Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir on the border with Pakistan. In the overwhelmingly Muslim city (pop. 550,000), black flags of protest flew as at least 6,500 soldiers and police enforced a curfew with the threat of shooting violators on sight. Regular air traffic to and from Srinagar was cut off. The last civilian airliner to leave the capital, with 264 aboard...
...name of buttressing India's system of centralized government. Mercifully, there seemed to be little immediate likelihood in Srinagar that the action would lead to the type of bloody confrontation that claimed more than 600 lives in Amritsar. The troops had been sent to Jammu and Kashmir to keep the peace as the state government was being rocked by New Delhi's ouster of the freely elected Chief Minister, Farooq Abdullah. The beneficiary, and undoubted instigator, of the incident was Mrs. Gandhi and her Hindu-dominated Congress (I) Party...
...Gandhi loyalist. Congress (I) Party politicians then secretly promised state government cabinet posts to twelve National Conference Party assemblymen, led by Abdullah's brother-in-law, in exchange for their agreement to abandon the Chief Minister and thus deprive him of a majority in the assembly. Kashmir's new pro-Gandhi governor then dismissed Abdullah, first taking the precaution of calling in the Indian army...
...explosive resentments in Kashmir, however, have added to the strain of other sectarian agonies in India: the rebellion that continues to disrupt neighboring Punjab, and the Hindu-Muslim animosity that has simmered for months in India's northeastern state of Assam. The question many concerned Indians are asking is whether Mrs. Gandhi is a bulwark against disruptive regionalism, or one of its principal causes...