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...Swatantra Party, which campaigned for free enterprise and was slandered as "fascist" by Nehru, won more state legislature seats (159) than any other party, but its strength was largely limited to three conservative states, Bihar, Gujerat and Rajasthan, where the beauteous Maharani of Jaipur defeated the Congress Party candidate in the election's biggest victory. The party was beaten in all major cities, stands third in Parliament with 18 seats. The Swatantra's plucky leader Chakravarti Rajagopalachari, called it a rout, but asked his supporters for the "patience and grit" to rally again...
...election's most far-reaching result was its resounding personal vindication of Nehru and Krishna Menon. Sure of his own Uttar Pradesh constituency (he romped home with a better than two-to-one lead over Socialist Leader Dr. Ram Manohar Lohia), Nehru throughout the campaign focused most of his efforts on Krishna Menon's fight for North Bombay. Nehru castigated Swatantra and right-wing Congress members, but only mildly criticized the Communist Party, which virtually took over Menon's campaign against J. B. Kripalani, the conservative coalition candidate who accused India's Defense Minister of twisting...
Control of Parliament was won by the Nepali Congress Party led by India-trained B. P. Koirala, who advocated the same vaguely socialistic ideas that animate India's Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru. Late in 1960, when Koirala pushed through legislation subjecting landlords to a property tax and expropriating large estates for the benefit of Nepal's millions of landless peasants, King Mahendra abruptly dissolved Parliament, jailed Koirala and as many of his Cabinet ministers as the inept Nepali police could lay hands on. After suppressing the nation's 15 political parties, the King has ruled through...
...Raids. Meanwhile, the Nepali Congress exiles gathered in Calcutta, where their grievances against the King won quick sympathy from Indian press and politicians. Though conceding that Nepal is a sovereign state, India has continued the practice of the British raj in trying to exercise control over the mountain kingdom. Nehru's government poured $56 million in economic aid into Nepal and supplied it with arms; in return, Nepal exports to India rice, timber, and the tough little Gurkha soldiers who make up India's crack regiments...
Prime Minister Nehru righteously castigated Mahendra's behavior as a "setback to democracy." But the leader of the Nepali exiles in Calcutta is not quite as democratic as Nehru might have wished. He is General Subarna Shumsher Jung Bahadur Rana, a member of Nepal's deposed, autocratic old ruling family. Since last December, under his command, the rebels have mounted dozens of armed attacks on Nepali villages and police posts. Typically, a few score guerrillas will pop out of the jungle, bloodlessly seize a town, run up the Nepali flag with a picture of Subarna, loot the local...