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...India, cried a socialist politician last week, 270 million people exist on 4? a day, while it takes 63? daily to feed Jawaharlal Nehru's dog. Not so, retorted Nehru: daily subsistence for 70% of the population is all of 20?. (He did not deny his canine food costs.) The accusation, and the Prime Minister's reply, were fair samples of the acrimonious personal attack on Nehru last week during the first censure motion against the government in India's 16 years of independence...
With a 229-seat plurality, Nehru's Congress Party was in no danger. Nevertheless, the debate, which followed three shattering by-election defeats for the government, vented Indians' wide and rising dissatisfaction with the Congress Party policies that led to the nation's humiliating defeats by the Chinese last October. The attack on the government was led by J. B. Kripalani, long time friend of Nehru and onetime president of his Congress Party, who was elected to Parliament recently as an independent...
Departing Ministers. Nehru's rebuttal was a rambling, schoolmasterly homily on India's "vision of the future" and the need for hard work; while he spoke, at least two members of his party slumbered in their seats. The censure motion was defeated 346-61, with the Communists abstaining...
...heat of the attack on the once-sacrosanct Nehru dismayed many Congress Party officials, and led to the resignation of six Cabinet ministers, who announced that they would concentrate on rejuvenating the party. The departing ministers were the strongest men on Nehru's team, although some were in political trouble. Among them were two strong pro-Westerners, Food Minister Patil and Finance Minister Morarji Desai, widely criticized for food shortages and high prices, as well as Home Minister Lai Bahadur Shastri, Nehru's likeliest successor...
...Nehru's daughter, Indira Gandhi, who is herself a potential candidate to succeed Nehru, insisted that India's mood of unrest is a sign of "progress." Impatiently tapping a pink-toed, sandaled foot, Mrs. Gandhi explained: "When your children reach their teens, they suddenly feel their parents are all wrong. India is in that stage now, for it's just 16 years old. Everybody grumbles about taxes. But you can see the number of shops increasing, more people going to the cinema, more people going on holidays. Why, the mountain resorts are so chock-full that...