Word: nehru
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When the Congress Party achieved its landslide victory in India's latest general election 15 months ago, the fiercest critics of Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru and former Defense Minister Krishna Menon were swept out of office. But the government's clumsy handling of the Chinese invasion last October gave new hope to the shattered non-Communist opposition. The hope was well founded. In the past fortnight, three of Nehru's most acid-tongued foes have scored overwhelming by-election victories over hand-picked Congress candidates for the Lok Sabha, lower house of Parliament...
...India's west coast, Minocher Rustom Masani, 57, general secretary of the right-wing Swatantra Party, downed a Congress nominee by an impressive majority of 14,000 votes. To the north in Uttar Pradesh, Socialist Dr. Ram Manohar Lohia, who took his defeat at the hands of Nehru himself in last year's election, trounced a former government Information Minister. Worst slap of all came in another Uttar Pradesh constituency, where victory came to lean, acerbic Independent J. B. Kripalani, 76, the veteran Congress politician who had left the party to become Nehru's bitter...
Swamped by Menon last year, Kripalani this time rolled over Nehru's Irrigation and Power Minister Hafiz Mohammed Ibrahim with little difficulty. The defeat was doubly galling for Nehru, for Ibrahim's campaign was masterminded by none other than his discredited old crony, Menon himself...
Prime Minister Nehru once described India as "a bundle of the centuries in which the cow and the tractor march together." Indian business suffers from, and sometimes profits by, such intermingling. Among those who are mastering the combination is canny Arvind Mafatlal, who at 40 is chairman of a $61.9 million family-controlled business that is spreading out from the mills of India's traditional cotton industry into modern petrochemicals...
...Karachi for a meeting of the CENTO nations, would be taking time out to urge a Kashmir settlement on the Pakistanis. Lest he appear partial, Rusk would also carry his appeal to New Delhi this week, where he is due to hold talks with Indian Prime Minister Nehru...