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...groups will attack the government for the nation's rising prices, which have climbed 4.9% in the past year. Discounting the fact that India's foreign exchange reserves are holding near the alltime high of $1.1 billion that was reached last June, opposition Congress Party Leader Siddavanahalli Nijalingappa declared: "An increase in foreign exchange will not fill my stomach." Another issue will be the size of India's unemployed population -nearly 14 million, including 5,000,000 who are educated...
...defeat, the Syndicate made a truce with Indira. But the rivalry flared up again in September after Congress Strategist Kunaeaswami Kamaraj maneuvered one of Indira's supporters out of the presidency of a state Congress organization. In retaliation, Indira opened a drive to fire Congress President Siddavanahalli Nijalingappa, who is a Syndicate member...
Sensing a showdown, the Syndicate summoned a meeting of the 21-member working committee, the party's highest executive body, to consider Indira's actions against Nijalingappa. Indira defiantly summoned her supporters on the working committee to meet at the same time but at a different place. The result: an even split. Ten members went to the Syndicate's session and ten to Indira's, while the 21st member shuttled between the two groups in hopes of patching up the quarrel...
...efforts were in vain. To make the break clear, she fired the last of the Syndicate men in her Cabinet, then moved to convene her own session of the All-India Congress Committee later this month. Nijalingappa ruled that her action is illegal, and if she goes through with the rival meeting, the split will probably be irreparable...
Late last week Indira lunched with Party Boss Nijalingappa in an attempt to avert the breakup of the Congress. Clad in what she considers to be her lucky costume-a pale yellow sari and a string of large black beads-she suggested that her deposed backers be reinstated. She refused, however, to reinstate the Syndicate members whom she had dropped from the Cabinet. "Not much was done at this meeting." admitted Nijalingappa. "No formula for unity has emerged...