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Fernandes, who once studied to be a Roman Catholic priest, is a quixotic but skillful labor organizer. He first acquired a national reputation in 1967, when he unexpectedly defeated a strongman of the ever ruling Congress Party, S.K. Patil, for the parliamentary seat for South...
Leaders of the Congress Party quickly started a campaign to organize public support for Mrs. Gandhi. But opposition parties announced that they would no longer recognize her as head of the nation's government. S.K. Patil, a member of the Congress Party faction that broke with her in 1969 and formed a separate party, said: "At long last Mrs. Gandhi has met her Watergate...
...when the old Congress Party split in two after Indira challenged the power of the "Syndicate" bosses, had won only 16 seats at week's end. Voters for the most part rejected both the extreme left and right-as well as many of the rich. S.K. Patil, Bombay boss of the Opposition Congress Party, was defeated, as were Swatantra Party Chairman "Mi-noo" Masani and Samyukta Socialist Party Leader Madhu Limaye. One who did manage to keep his seat was Morarji Desai, Indira's old Opposition Congress foe, though his margin was narrowed from 125,000 votes...
Kali Reincarnate. The conflicting ideologies of the coalition members have made the alliance an uneasy one, at best. Bitter enemies sometimes found themselves unwilling partners. In south Bombay, for instance, Opposition Congress Party Boss S.K. Patil was forced to seek election in a neighboring state so that his arch foe, Samyukta Socialist George Fernandes, could...
...India Congress Committee, the party's policy-setting group. In principle, the members of the Syndicate endorsed Indira's efforts to speed India's swing to the left, but in practice they dragged their sandals. Supported by Desai, her chief opponents were Bombay Leader S. K. Patil, Congress Party President S. Nijalingappa, former President Kumaraswami Kamaraj and West Bengal Chieftain Atuyla Ghosh. After first challenging Indira in closed meetings, her opponents tried to sidestep such proposals as nationalizing Indian banks by paying them mere lip service in the vague closing resolution. But their real success came...