Word: kripalani
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...home and abroad. His solution has been to excuse China, suppress information about happenings in Tibet, and to muffle India's outrage. But last week many Indians were wondering if Nehru's way was the right one. Their doubts were voiced by the Praja Socialist leader, Acharya Kripalani, who told Nehru in Parliament that "our efforts to save the friendship with Red China will result in this: they will only credit us with cowardice...
...ensuing debate, Praja Socialist Leader J.B. Kripalani, 66, had a word of warning about the new law. "Indian women are not in favor of divorce-" said he cautiously. Then, looking up and seeing his wife (who is also a Member of Parliament) nodding her head. Kripalani took courage and made his point: "If the Law Minister had read psychology, he would not have provided for divorce in cases of adultery. One slip on your part does not mean that you do not desire your wife. There must be habitual unfaithfulness before divorce...
...party came when Purushottamdas Tandon, an orthodox Hindu, managed to get himself elected Congress president last year. Tandon is a right-winger in resolute control of Congress' political machines. Nehru does not like him. In a moment of pique after his election, Nehru backed Jiwatram Bhagwandas Kripalani, a left-winger and disciple of Gandhi, to start an opposition movement against Tandon. The movement grew bigger and louder than Nehru had intended. Whereupon the Prime Minister did exactly what he does on international issues: he climbed on the fence, refused to back either Tandon or Kripalani...
...That got Kripalani sore, and he turned on Nehru. Last week Kripalani, having seceded from the Congress Party, met with 1,000 delegates from all over India on the banks of the Ganges in Patna (capital of famine-stricken Bihar province); they formed a new party of their own, named it the People's Party...
...Kripalani denounced the Congress Party for being corrupt, and Nehru's government for using police state measures ("Can there be greater shame than that my telephone is tapped?"). Kripalani professed his loyalty to Nehru personally. Cried he: "I have no greater friend than Jawaharlal Nehru. What is Congress today except the name of one man-Nehru? That name has been prostituted . . . His ministers are betraying...