Word: sangh
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Munnetra Khazagam to power was fear of the imposition of Hindi as the sole official language of India. In Punjab, the fall in Congress stock was largely due to squabbles attending the partition of the state of Punjab into Punjab and Hariana. In Uttar Pradesh and Delhi, the Jan Sangh certainly gathered a large number of votes through its agitation against cow slaughter...
...poised on the brink of national disintegration. While the threat posed by regionalism is genuine, this is, to say the least, an exaggerated conclusion. Much of what will happen in the future hinges on the issue of Hindi. In the north, the major gains have been made by Jan Sangh and to some extent, the Samyukta Socialist Party or the United Socialist Party, both of which are firmly committed to the introduction of Hindi as the sole official language of India. In the south, the D.M.K., which has captured power in Madras, is implacably opposed to the imposition of Hindi...
...seats won at week's end) went the Swatantra Party, which was founded only eight years ago. By far India's most pro-West party, Swatantra stands for free enterprise, appeals to India's growing middle class and business interests. Third place went to the Jana Sangh Party, which has won 33 seats so far. A conservative Hindu party that wants to reassert India's historic greatness, the Jana Sangh championed a national ban on cow slaughter, campaigned for atom bombs for India and a harder line with Moslem Pakistan and Communist China. Jana Sangh...
...nomination for Parliament from Bombay, is running as an independent. Key leaders in six other states have also broken with the party and taken their followers along with them. Worse yet, the rebels have somewhere to go. Two up-and-coming conservative parties-the Hindu Jana Sangh and the free-enterprising Swatantra-are welcoming Congress Party defectors...
...were very weak. When false rumors of the death of one began to circulate, angry Hindu mobs rioted in Hyderabad in southern India, stoning buses and the local Congress Party headquarters. Such violence, which will almost certainly spread if the sadhus die, can only end up helping the Jana Sangh and Swatantra parties, both of which strongly endorse an immediate national ban on cow slaughter...