Word: sabha
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...over the subcontinent, candidates for the 494 seats in the Lok Sabha (lower house of Parliament) and 2,930 seats in 13 state assemblies were on the stump. Groups of Communist Party workers gathered in Calcutta streets to act out skits on such issues as high prices, high rents and poor public transportation. A candidate in the Punjab campaigned from his jail cell; he was accused of trying to assassinate his opponent. In the Himalayan constituency of Ranikhet, a Congress Party aspirant promised to deal with his district's most urgent problem-a tiger that has so far devoured...
Dhoti Democracy. For 77 years, the Congress Party has been the most influential Indian political organization, today controls 373 seats in the Lok Sabha. In the years of the British raj, Congress kindled the fires of independence, gathered under its banners peasants, landowners, untouchables, maharajahs, Communists, capitalists, liberals and reactionaries. Only the massive national appeal of Mahatma Gandhi and the united determination to oust Britain from India kept the catchall party together. But the Congress became so ingrained in the Indian consciousness that the party did not fall apart after independence came in 1947. The various elements that made...
Despite massive discontent, the Congress Party has never really had a goad in the Lok Sabha. Disgruntled elements within Congress are loath to leave the sheltering paternalism of the party, which benevolently permits them the fruits of patronage and influence peddling. The only coherent opposition has been the Communist Party, whose influence is greater than its 30 seats in Parliament suggest. Nowadays the Communists generally support the Congress Party's left-wing candidates, including Menon, oppose only the right-wingers. Nehru has occasionally swatted the Communists for "having their thoughts outside India," but is less hard on them than...
...PRAJA SOCIALIST PARTY, with 18 seats in the Lok Sabha, represents the non-Communist left and is the political home for most of India's intellectuals. It has provided most of the debating muscle against the government in Parliament, but Congress has lifted most of the P.S.P.'s ideas, sharply reducing its influence...
...Cool. India's attack followed weeks of jingoistic dissemblance by Nehru in New Delhi's Lok Sabha (Lower House). Prodded by Defense Minister V. K. Krishna Menon and faced with elections in February (see box), Nehru aimed a barrage of inflated and inflammatory charges at the Portuguese. He claimed that Portuguese naval vessels had attacked an Indian fishing boat and an Indian merchant ship, and that well-armed Portuguese troops were "massing menacingly" along the 180-mile Indo-Goan border. Portugal's colonial authorities, Nehru said, were brutally oppressing the Goan people, most of whom were Hindus...