Word: kripalani
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Nevertheless, the debate, which followed three shattering by-election defeats for the government, vented Indians' wide and rising dissatisfaction with the Congress Party policies that led to the nation's humiliating defeats by the Chinese last October. The attack on the government was led by J. B. Kripalani, long time friend of Nehru and onetime president of his Congress Party, who was elected to Parliament recently as an independent...
Whole Skins. "This government has failed in its domestic policy," declared Kripalani. It "has failed in its foreign policy, and it has failed in its economic policy. The people feel depressed and frustrated, and believe the country has slid back during the past 15 years." The government's longtime policy of "non-alignment," Kripalani argued, no longer fits "national needs." Said he: "You can not coexist with someone who does not believe in coexistence. We are at war with China...
...censure motion was sponsored by Nehru's most outspoken political foe, stooped, acerbic J. B. Kripalani, a political independent who was returned to Parliament only two months ago in a surprising by-election victory, after having been swamped by now discredited ex-Defense Minister Krishna Menon in last year's general election. Kripalani proposed to censure the government among other things, over official cor ruption, spiraling food prices and prohibitively high taxation. Though Kripalani is pro-Western, the censure proposal became an umbrella for all kinds of other Nehru critics, including leftists angered by Nehru...
...Uttar Pradesh, Socialist Dr. Ram Manohar Lohia, who took his defeat at the hands of Nehru himself in last year's election, trounced a former government Information Minister. Worst slap of all came in another Uttar Pradesh constituency, where victory came to lean, acerbic Independent J. B. Kripalani, 76, the veteran Congress politician who had left the party to become Nehru's bitter...
Swamped by Menon last year, Kripalani this time rolled over Nehru's Irrigation and Power Minister Hafiz Mohammed Ibrahim with little difficulty. The defeat was doubly galling for Nehru, for Ibrahim's campaign was masterminded by none other than his discredited old crony, Menon himself...