Word: rajagopalachari
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...Mahal, the afternoon sun beat down last week on a crowded courtyard in the heart of the business district. Underneath a gaudy orange canopy, a gaunt, hawk-nosed old man in a homespun dhoti and sandals talked, beamed when children rushed up to get his autograph. At 81, Chakravarti Rajagopalachari, India's best-known elder statesman, onetime governor general and close friend of Mahatma Gandhi, had come out of political retirement to lead a national crusade to "release the people" from the burdensome statism of his old freedom-fighting colleague, Jawaharlal Nehru...
...last month, Rajagopalachari-known to India's millions simply as "C.R." -has been stumping through the North Indian cities and villages for his cause. His platform is modern: less government planning, more scope for free enterprise, a firmer stand against Communism and Chinese aggression. But his language is often reminiscent of the parables of the New Testament...
...week's end, Rajagopalachari hove into New Delhi for a final grand rally, well pleased with the results of his campaign...
...months after its founding last summer, C.R.'s Swatantra (Freedom) Party had little influence and no prospects. But Rajagopalachari's tour had had an impact which startled and impressed even India's most cynical observers. At one meeting, at which party officials prepared for 15,000, more than 100,000 turned up. In the last two months, Swatantra has grown so fast that some party leaders now talk expansively of capturing two or three state governments in 1962, increasing their ten seats in the Lower House in New Delhi...
...Congress Party would wither away. Instead, it stayed intact, and, with Nehru as its great drawing card, lapsed into corruption, inefficiency and apathy. Now for the first time there is a real opposition stirring, led by one of India's grand old men and only Governor General, Chakravarti Rajagopalachari (familiarly known as "C.R."), who is a frisky 80. Pointing out that Nehru's formal opposition comes only from the feeble Socialists and the malevolent Communists, C.R. last month founded a conservative political party known as the Freedom Party. Among its supporters: anti-Nehru Bombay Businessman Raja Hutheesingh...