Word: nadar
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Kumaraswami Kamaraj Nadar, 63, barrel-chested boss of Madras, who as president of the Congress Party dreamed up the consensus scheme as a means of installing Shastri after Nehru's death. But Kamaraj speaks only Tamil, and even if Shastri were to vanish, would be content to remain only a kingmaker and cash collector for the party. Last week Kamaraj was touring his home state, preceded by an elephant with bells on its toes, to celebrate his birthday. In lieu of gifts he collected $350,000 for the party coffers...
...House, a graceful, open-air structure modeled after London's Crystal Palace, the Congress congeries was faced with choosing a successor to the party president. Under party rules, the president cannot succeed himself after his two-year term is up, but the current president, muscular, mustachioed Kumaraswami Kamaraj Nadar, 62, is a close political ally of Shastri. Looking ahead to the 1967 elections, Shastri wanted someone atop the party machinery to select pro-Shastri candidates for the next parliamentary slate. Shyly but firmly, Shastri let it be known that anyone who wanted to change the party rules and permit...
Nothing is simple in India, including Shastri's unanimous election. He was the clear choice of the country's three kingmakers, 1) Congress Party President Kamaraj Nadar, who controls four south Indian states, 2) Atulya Ghosh, boss of eastern India, and 3) Bombay's S. K. Patil, who personally directs some 100 of the 537 Congress Party M.P.s. All three closed ranks behind Shastri as the man most capable of bringing "unity" to the nation. And all three opposed the only other candidate, conservative, autocratic Morarji Desai, the former Finance Minister, who was supported by rightists, leftists...
...Rudolph pointed out that Shastri has the support of Kamraj Nadar, the first strong, independent president of the Congress party in years. "Nadar should be able to insure Shastri the necessary votes within the parliamentary party," Rudolph said...
Immediate reaction to Tehranian's accusation came from Mohammed R. Madjd and Nadar Ardalan, students at the Graduate School of Design, who claim that the government "is working within a constitutional framework...