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...contest. Yet last week for the first time a race was on for the largely ceremonial post. It was between Zakir Husain, 70, backed by the ruling Congress Party, and Chief Justice Subba Rao, 59, of the Indian Supreme Court, the candidate of the seven opposition parties in Parliament. The Congress Party's choice of Husain, who is currently India's Vice President, was noteworthy because he would be the first Moslem ever to hold the post in a country that is 84% Hindu. As for the opposition, their aim was to give the government of Indira Gandhi...
Ever since the elections in February, when the Congress Party lost 96 seats in the Lower House of Parliament, the opposition has been maneuvering to overcome the government's tenuous 17 vote majority. It has relentlessly picked at Indira, accused her of using official gifts from visiting heads of state for her own enjoyment and of heartlessly denying permission to Svetlana Stalina to stay in India. If it can show strength in the contest for the presidency, which will be decided by an electoral college of state and national legislators on May 6, the opposition might lure more Congress...
...efforts to promote a coalition among the opposition parties in Parliament have been unavailing except for the choice of Candidate Rao. Mrs. Gandhi's principal rival for power, Finance Minister Morarji Desai, has chosen to remain outwardly loyal to her. But on the state level, the opposition has had much better success. It has won control of nine of the 17 Indian states as a result of defections from the Congress Party and alliances among themselves. In Uttar Pradesh, India's most populous state, the Congress government was toppled last month when a minister and 17 other Congress...
...urban area of that size partially reflects a working-class protest against wage freezes and other austerity measures imposed by the Wilson government. Without doubt, the elections also gave many Laborites the chance to express their dissatisfaction without having to go so far as to turn Labor out of Parliament. But the fact that the To ries also won control of ten other local councils in last week's voting across the country showed that the shift was as much pro-Tory as it was antiLabor...
Indeed, while both the ministry and the company bore their share of criticism, Britain's defense industry contracts seemed to be the main target of the debate. Critics in the press and Parliament alike were quick to remember that the same thing happened only three years ago, when Ferranti, Ltd., repaid $12 million after acknowledging an 82% profit manufacturing Bloodhound missiles. Since then, there has been no significant change in the basis for contracting. The government still has no legal redress for excess profits...