Word: sabha
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...clumsy handling of the Chinese invasion last October gave new hope to the shattered non-Communist opposition. The hope was well founded. In the past fortnight, three of Nehru's most acid-tongued foes have scored overwhelming by-election victories over hand-picked Congress candidates for the Lok Sabha, lower house of Parliament...
After two days of bitter debate in New Delhi's Lok Sabha, the Indian Parliament last week approved Prime Minister Nehru's decision to accept a neutralist proposal for the settlement of India's Himalayan border dispute with Red China-provided that the Chinese also agree to the neutrals' plan in toto. Under the arrangement devised by the six nonaligned nations-Ghana, Egypt, Indonesia, Burma, Cambodia and Ceylon-at the Colombo Conference last December, the Chinese will be forced to withdraw 12½ miles from the present cease-fire line in the northwestern Himalayas...
...past, he and Defense Minister Krishna Menon have described the aggressions as "minor and petty," called the area occupied by the Chinese only "barren mountaintops where not even a blade of grass grows." Such remarks have brought angry charges against the government in New Delhi's Lok Sabha (lower house of Parliament), where one opposition critic has accused Nehru and Menon of ordering India's border guards not to fire on the Chinese invaders. When, at last, Menon was forced to acknowledge the extent of the Chinese aggressions ("a stab in the back"), he nevertheless continued to pussyfoot...
...JANA SANGH PARTY commands only four seats in the Lok Sabha. but has a growing strength based on its virulent anti-Moslem, antiminority appeal. Jana Sangh's Hindu reactionaries would restrict the rights of Moslems, Christians and untouchables ; they would forbid cow slaughter all over India. Jana Sangh is confident that it can win many Congress voters away from their party. "Scratch a Congressman and you find a Jan Sanghi," says a party leader. But the party is strongly opposed by many Hindus who disapprove of its fanaticism...
...SWATANTRA (Freedom) PARTY is the most important opposition movement in the campaign, even though it was founded only three years ago, has never been tested at the polls, and has only ten members in the Lok Sabha-all rebels and outcasts from other parties. Swatantra is vigorously conservative, opposes Nehru's idea of a planned society. Nehru has slashingly attacked it as the main ideological challenge to the kind of India he wants to build. Nehru called the Swatantra leaders "fascist." says: "Nobody knows which century they live in-the 15th or the 16th...