Word: kerala
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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During weeks of hot and heavy campaigning, all eyes in India were on Kerala, a hard-up state whose 16 million inhabitants make it as populous as Canada. The question was whether Kerala, which voted Communist in 1957 and endured 28 months of chaotic Red rule, would vote Communist again. After all, the Reds had not been thrown out at the polls but removed from office on orders from New Delhi. This time the non-Communists were taking no chances. They borrowed freely from successful Communist tricks ranging from parades of painted elephants to torchlight processions. In the most Christian...
...legislative seats. By combining to eliminate three-and four-cornered races, the Congress Party, Praja Socialists and Moslem League, usually at one another's throats, concentrated on the Reds instead. Swept out of office were seven out of eleven ministers of the Communist regime. Kerala's Red boss, E.M.S. Namboodiripad, the former chief minister, survived only by switching to a safe constituency...
Surveying the picture, Neelam Sanjiva Reddy, the new national president of India's dominant Congress Party, crowed: "The people of Kerala have rejected Communism outright." But the local Congress Party leader, R. Sanker, saw no reason for anyone to be "unduly jubilant." Shut out as they were in assembly seats, the Reds actually increased their popular vote and their share (42%) of the total. In New Delhi, Prime Minister Nehru said that Kerala made him "very happy...
TRIVANDRUM, India, Feb. 2--A non-Communist alliance led by Prime Minister Nehru's Congress party won a smashing victory today over the Reds in the south Indian state of Kerala...
...alliance took a majority of 65 seats in Kerala's 126-member legislative Assembly by the time half the returns from Monday's special elections had been counted...