Word: parliament
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...British Raj withdrew from India, non-Communist Asia's biggest and most populous nation has been ruled by one party and one man-the Congress Party of Jawaharlal Nehru. Last week some 365 white-capped Congress Party M.P.s assembled in New Delhi's round, red sandstone Parliament building to listen to their leader. They expected both praise and advice. What they got sounded more like a funeral oration...
What has happened? The fact is that though the Congress Party still holds an overwhelming majority (365 out of 499 seats in Parliament), it has been slipping badly in recent state and municipal elections; e.g., in Kerala, where the Communists recently scored their first major Indian victory (TIME, April 1), and in last week's municipal elections in Bombay, where the Congress Party was defeated for the first time in 19 years because apathetic party hacks failed to assess the genuineness of the popular drive for a separate, Marathi-speaking Bombay state. The candidate who piled up the largest...
...strains outside are also visible inside the Congress-controlled Parliament itself. This week when Food Minister A. P. Jain tried to gloss over the nation's acute food shortage with bureaucratic doubletalk, he was hooted down by Congress Party M.P.s. When Finance Minister T. T. Krishnamachari announced sharp increases in taxes on railway fares, gasoline and vegetable oils, the Congress benches moaned, denounced their own new budget as a program designed to "soak the poor." Said one Congressman in Bombay: "It's getting fashionable to be anti-Congress...
...both Houses of the Soviet Parliament voted (1,347 to 0) to ask the U.S. Congress and the British Parliament to set up a joint committee to seek ways to ban all nuclear tests immediately...
...short rations, seemed the last man in the world to repair it. To everyone's surprise, he promptly staged one of the most skillful displays of dosaggio (division of offices among rival factions) in postwar Italian history, not only revived the coalition but even managed to push through Parliament a series of overdue measures...