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...even his mother would have readily recognized India's Home Minister Gulzarilal Nanda. Sitting in a small unmarked car parked at the edge of New Delhi's grain market, Nanda was wearing dark glasses, a long coat buttoned to his chin, and a turban whose tail covered his lower face. Thus disguised, he warily watched hundreds of Communist-led marchers demonstrating against India's food prices, which have risen 22% in the last 18 months -almost as much as the price rise over the previous ten years...
...Nanda's careful disguise was hardly necessary to assure his safety. The demonstrators were under orders of the pro-Russian wing of India's divided Communist Party, which for the present is as dedicated to nonviolence as the pro-Peking wing is committed to violence. The crowds were orderly, but by organizing token attempts to break through police cordons, the Reds hoped to get 100,000 people arrested in five days and jam the jails. The police contented themselves with arresting 11,000 demonstrators, including the top pro-Russian leader, S. A. Dange, and most were sentenced...
...office wall of Home Minister Gulzari Lal Nanda is a map of India that bristles with small flags, each representing a town where there has been serious unrest over the nation's growing food crisis. Every week brings more flags to the map: protest demonstrations in Bombay, a rampaging crowd in Rampur, looting of grain shops in Agra. India's Reds are busily preparing "mass agitation" to exploit the food shortage. Said Communist Party Chairman S. A. Dange: "A government that cannot feed the people should quit...
...Finance Minister Desai demanded that he be given a post that would, in effect, make him deputy prime minister and No. 2 man in India. When Shastri countered with the offer of the No. 3 position in the Cabinet, just under that of veteran Home Minister Gulzari Lai Nanda, Desai bitterly refused because he felt "it is not consistent with my self-respect...
...Leftists, led by the discredited Krishna Menon, still hope to boost Daughter Indira into power, but she may well settle for taking over her father's second job as External Affairs Minister. At the moment, a trio of right-leaning moderates are in control: Home Minister G. L. Nanda, Finance Minister T. T. Krishnamachari, and Minister without Portfolio Lai Bahadur Shastri...