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...setting group. In principle, the members of the Syndicate endorsed Indira's efforts to speed India's swing to the left, but in practice they dragged their sandals. Supported by Desai, her chief opponents were Bombay Leader S. K. Patil, Congress Party President S. Nijalingappa, former President Kumaraswami Kamaraj and West Bengal Chieftain Atuyla Ghosh. After first challenging Indira in closed meetings, her opponents tried to sidestep such proposals as nationalizing Indian banks by paying them mere lip service in the vague closing resolution. But their real success came in defeating Indira on the party's choice...
...this year. Of the 16 states, only eight returned Congress to power with absolute majorities in the state legislatures. Of the remaining eight Kerala and Orissa chose a leftist (Communist dominated) and rightist coalition respectively. Madras, a Congress stronghold and the home state of the Congress President, Kumaraswami Kamaraj, voted to power Dravida Munnetra Khazagam (Dravidian Progress Party) popularly referred to as the D.M.K., a party whose main concern is regional and whose opposition to the imposition of Hindi as the sole official language of India, relentless. West Bengal, Bihar, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh and Punjab deprived Congress of its absolute...
Finance Minister Morarji Desai, 70, an unbending rightist. Also in the wings: Kumaraswami Kamaraj Nadar, 63, the kingmaker of the party, who some say is so unhappy with Indira that he is considering taking the job himself...
...rested with the top people of the Congress Party. Normally, that would mean the "syndicate," the handful of political bosses who have recently dominated the party, and who stage-managed Shastri's smooth ascension to power. This time the kingmakers were divided. The most prominent of them all, mustachioed Kumaraswami Kamaraj Nadar, 63, had angered the others by holding on to his post as party president for a second term. Without so much as a bow to him, the remaining syndicate members settled on Nanda as their candidate...
...choice was being debated in a small bungalow on a dusty New Delhi road. There, draped in a white longhi, Kumaraswami Kamaraj Nadar, 63, the barrel-chested kingmaker of the Congress Party, received a stream of state leaders and other important politicians, testing the political breezes for signs of support for the various candidates...