Word: mishra
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Ramesh Mishra...
...rampaging students in Gujarat managed to bring down the state government, J.P. was impressed and decided to try to do the same thing in Bihar, his home state. The demonstrations led to riots, and Mrs. Gandhi appealed to J.P. to call them off. He refused. When Railways Minister Lalit Mishra was assassinated on a visit to Bihar last January, the Congress Party accused Narayan of unleashing a "cult of violence, intimidation and coercion...
...incidents." Although she did not mention the apparent attempt on her own life in March, when a Hindi newspaper editor was arrested with a loaded pistol as he entered the courtroom in which Mrs. Gandhi was testifying, the Prime Minister did cite the "brutal murder" of Railways Minister L.N. Mishra in January and the unsuccessful assassination attempt on India's Chief Justice three months later...
...Mishra, in fact, was easily the most unpopular man in the Indian government-not only because of the corruption charges, but also because he had successfully used strong-arm measures last year in breaking a national rail strike. At week's end, a crowd of government employees in New Delhi initially refused to express formal grief at the news of Mishra's death. Only after the main speaker, Jayaprakash Narayan himself, remonstrated with the group and declared that "no sane person can tolerate" such acts of terrorism did the audience reluctantly support the traditional resolution of condolence...
Died. Lalit Narayan Mishra, 51, India's Minister for Railways; during emergency surgery for wounds suffered in a bomb blast; in Patna, India (see THE WORLD...