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...running at such a fast pace because her party is in its deepest trouble since India won independence from Britain in 1947. Always an unwieldly conglomerate of everything from conservative businessmen to dreamy leftists, the Congress Party is suffering from an attack of election-eve defections. Fiery old Leftist Krishna Menon, India's onetime Defense Minister, has bolted the party after failing to win its nomination for Parliament from Bombay, is running as an independent. Key leaders in six other states have also broken with the party and taken their followers along with them. Worse yet, the rebels have...
...independence struggle, experience as a former chief minister of the highly industrialized state of Maharashtra, which includes Bombay, and an excellent record as a Cabinet minister. He was originally summoned to New Delhi and given the Defense post in 1962 by Jawaharlal Nehru, who needed a replacement for Leftist Krishna Menon in the dark days after Red China's attack. Chavan rammed through an effective rebuilding of the army. Now he was clearly out to rebuild the Home Ministry's gentle image. His first major orders in his new job were to prohibit a student demonstration...
...social control of the banks"-a phrase that might or might not mean nationalization. At any rate, the platform contained enough of the doctrinaire socialism of Indira's father, Jawaharlal Nehru, to please the leftists without alienating the free-enterprisers. In the interest of unity, even fiery old Krishna Menon, leader of the left wing, who normally might be expected to be quarrelsome, went along with the leadership, cooed happily over the document: "This is a socialist manifesto...
When Indira Gandhi took office as Prime Minister last January, many Indian politicians feared that she might become a mouthpiece for the left-wing policies of onetime Defense Minister and longtime family friend, Vengalil Krishna Menon. In fact, Indira had al ready quietly disowned him. Last week, in the first political attack mounted against Mrs. Gandhi personally, Menon betrayed his anger in a scathing 25-minute parliamentary harangue that showed off all his celebrated talents for sarcasm, snarl and serpentine innuendo...
EUGENE C. RUEFF Lieut. Commander, U.S.N. Commanding Officer, U.S.S. Krishna Viet...