Word: nadar
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Young candidates as well as young parties appealed to India's voters. Congress Party President Kamaraj Nadar was bested by a 28-year-old student leader. Rail Minister S. K. Patil, a leading member of the party's kingmaking "Syndicate," was unseated by a 36-year-old former dock worker. Surendra Tapuriah, the young man who modeled his hairdo and politics after Bobby Kennedy, won by a landslide. To a younger candidate, too, fell fiery old Leftist Krishna Menon, 69, in a defeat that undoubtedly ended his stormy political career...
Repulsed by police with staves, the mob stormed the headquarters of All India Radio, invaded other nearby government buildings and residences, including the home of Congress Party President K. Kamaraj Nadar (he escaped through a back door). Other demonstrators set fire to 56 cars and buses and 26 motor scooters. In desperation, the police broke out rifles, began firing down Parliament Street to frighten away the rioters. In the melee, eight persons were killed, 111 injured...
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...
...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...