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...election committees at least two weeks. But already Jawaharlal Nehru's Congress Party was clearly on its way to a landslide victory. In his own constituency near Allahabad, Nehru ran nearly 200,000 votes ahead of his opponent, an anti-cow-slaughter candidate whose program the pandit dismissed with the brief comment: "I like horses as much as cows...
...difference it would make to the election, the Pandit might perfectly well have stayed at home. There was no doubt whatever that Nehru's Congress Party would hold its comfortable majority in the soo-seat Lok Sabha (India's lower house of Parliament). The three main opposition parties (the rightist Jan Sangh, the leftist Praja Socialists and the Communists) had not put up enough candidates to win even if they swept the field...
...public pronouncements caught the headlines, but from the standpoint of future U.S.-Indian relationships, the talks between President and Prime Minister probably were more important. Ike was anxious to establish a personal relationship with the forceful Pandit; Nehru, for his part, had much to learn about the President who had just been given a resounding mandate in re-election and had used his influence so effectively in both the Suez and Hungarian crises...
When Nehru returns from his U.S. visit, Chou will pass through New Delhi again to hear what Ike and the Pandit...
...opinion of Nehru Is practically zehru, And I could stand it, If we lost the Pandit...