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Prime Minister Nehru has lost his grip on the Indian Congress Party, the power, now crumbling, that led the fight for Indian independence. With common enemy and common purpose gone, the party has turned flabby and corrupt. Its new strong man is Purushottamdas Tandon, a bearded lawyer who looks like a Hindu holy man and acts like a Tammany boss. A right-winger, he controls the party machine and the political bosses whom Nehru has nei, ther time nor inclination to pay much attention to. Last month a group of Nehru's left-wing followers seceded from the Congress...
...Nehru got his chance at Bangalore where 350 members of the All India Congress Committee met to make plans for India's forthcoming general elections (probably at the end of 1951). With evangelical fervor, Nehru campaigned for Congress Party reforms, told members that it would be better for them to lose the elections than lose their souls. Before a nineteen-member working committee, Nehru demanded reorganization of the Congress Party's election board (which nominates candidates) so as to give his own followers a chance against Tandon's party machine. He also asked that charges of corruption...
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