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...India's able Finance Minister Morarji Desai, austerity is a way of life. Not only is he a vegetarian and a teetotaler who fasts for a day and a half every week, but he is also a hardheaded fiscal conservative who derides pie-in-the-sky welfare schemes and is an ardent believer in pay-as-you-go financing. Last week Desai presented the Indian Parliament with an austerity budget that will put the entire nation on the Desai standard...
Corruption is widespread. In New Delhi a police officer was caught shipping whisky to Bombay in crates labeled "Government of India Records." An illegal still was found in a Bombay compound owned (but not occupied) by Finance Minister Morarji Desai, an ardent prohibitionist. One bootlegger proved to be the chauffeur of Bombay's chief justice, and his still was located in his employer's garage. The police of Maharashtra state informed local officials that they had to neglect ordinary criminals because they spent so much time on prohibition raids...
This does not mean that Nehru no longer leads, but only that from now on he will have to lead by using the more orthodox methods of a Western politician. Conservative members of the Congress Party, notably Finance Minister Morarji Desai, have been strengthened, and expect that Nehru's dogmatic reliance on socialism and the "public sector" of industry will be reduced; if India is to arm in a hurry, they argue, it will need the drive and energy of the "private sector...
...steps down, his Congress Party will nominate a straw man who resembles him as closely as possible. Likeliest candidate is Lai Bahadur Shastri, 58, Nehru's bland Home Minister, who, while probably equal to the job, lacks the personal dynamism to .#11 it permanently. Conservatives favor Finance Minister Morarji Desai, a dogged free-enterpriser in a statist Cabinet and a stern ascetic who once gave up conjugal relations with his wife for 20 years. But Desai's austerity programs have not made him popular. Socialist Leader Jayaprakash Narayan is, next to Nehru, the most pop- ular...
Nothing fascinates an Indian politician like trying to guess who will succeed Pandit Nehru, now 71, and the only Premier the country ever had. The name most mentioned lately has been Morarji Desai, 64, who is India's able Finance Minister, leading prohibitionist and all-round ascetic (he eats no meat, fasts 36 hours a week, once gave up sex for 20 years). Last week Nehru clipped Desai's career back so far that the guessing game was wide open again...