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...gentle leader, the search began for a successor. At week's end, as India's leading politicians huddled in one meeting after another, it seemed likely that the choice would fall on a candidate with a magical legacy in Indian politics: Indira Gandhi, 48, daughter of Jawaharlal Nehru...
Technically, T.T.K. quit. In fact, he was sacked for possessing a personality incompatible with those of Shastri and his other ministers. A brilliant, impatient holdover from Nehru's Cabinet, Krishnamachari ran the country's finances as a one-man show, imposed harsh restrictions on the foreign firms in India, and conducted a running fight with the World Bank, which criticized his policies as too restrictive. Contemptuous of his colleagues, he called one minister a "constipated cockroach," advised another to return to teaching, and held back on allocations of foreign exchange for much needed fertilizer largely out of dislike...
...Krishnamachari appealed to Shastri to personally exonerate him of the accusation. Shastri stalled, suggesting that the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court ought to examine the matter. Enraged, the Finance Minister walked in for a showdown. "You are not indispensable," said Shastri. Replied Krishnamachari: "I should have quit when Nehru died...
...Delhi, home minister Gulzarilal Nanda was sworn in as the new prime minister, a job he held briefly after the death of Nehru a year-and-a-half...
Nanda, he explained, was not considered for Prime Minister at the time of Nehru's death because Indian Congress Party members distrusted his close association with V.K. Krishna Mennon, but during Shastri's one-and-a half years in office, Nanda had grown closer to party leaders...