Word: nehru
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...time of independence, the Hindu Maharajah of Kashmir opted to go to India rather than Pakistan, even though the province was 76% Moslem. His action precipitated a bloody war between Hindus and Moslems. Nehru first promised the state a plebiscite, then reneged. The two countries now maintain a troubled peace along a U.N.-drawn cease-fire line in the divided province. Nehru has three times ignored U.N. resolutions calling for a plebiscite in Kashmir...
This time Nehru cannot just rewind his toy to get him past his election battle. As Defense Minister, Menon bears a large part of the responsibility for Red China's successful incursions along India's northern frontier-the hottest issue in the campaign. He also stands for the doctrinaire left-wing socialism that has come increasingly under attack by conservatives...
...permits them the fruits of patronage and influence peddling. The only coherent opposition has been the Communist Party, whose influence is greater than its 30 seats in Parliament suggest. Nowadays the Communists generally support the Congress Party's left-wing candidates, including Menon, oppose only the right-wingers. Nehru has occasionally swatted the Communists for "having their thoughts outside India," but is less hard on them than on any other opposition party...
...SWATANTRA (Freedom) PARTY is the most important opposition movement in the campaign, even though it was founded only three years ago, has never been tested at the polls, and has only ten members in the Lok Sabha-all rebels and outcasts from other parties. Swatantra is vigorously conservative, opposes Nehru's idea of a planned society. Nehru has slashingly attacked it as the main ideological challenge to the kind of India he wants to build. Nehru called the Swatantra leaders "fascist." says: "Nobody knows which century they live in-the 15th or the 16th...
...Permit Raj. Nehru's fury partly stems from the fact that the Swatantra leader, Chakravarti Rajagopalachari, India's most prestigious elder statesman, attacks Nehru personally. "C.R.," also nicknamed "Rajaji," has stung Nehru by calling the Congress reign "corrupt and dishonest . . . worse than the rule of the Mogul emperor," has accused him of leading India to statism and Communism. A bowed and frail Madras Brahman whom Gandhi once called "keeper of my conscience," C.R. was a leader in the Congress freedom fight against the British, was the only Indian ever to serve as India's Governor General...