Word: sangh
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Best chances for the opposition is in the state assemblies (see map). In Rajasthan, the Swatantra and Jana Sangh could topple the Congress leadership, and in West Bengal a leftist front could overthrow Congress. In the Punjab a Sikh separate language party threatens Congress for control of the Assembly. In Mysore, Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh and Bihar, Congress may lose some seats. In Parliament its victory is beyond question, though the opposition parties may win as many as 200 of the 494 seats...
Even though Congress will win, the election will still have considerable effect on national attitudes. The Congress Party's very amorphousness makes its members highly susceptible to the pressure of any opposition. If the Hindu-first Jana Sangh does well, it will influence conservative Hindu Congressmen. If the Swatantra scores or Menon does poorly, it will infuriate Nehru and immeasurably strengthen the conservative element within his own Cabinet. But if the rest of the opposition falters, the Communists by default could widen their power. Says the Swatantra's Rajagopalachari: "Whether we win or not, making the attempt...
...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...
...Hell." All five major parties are involved in Krishna Menon's re-election fight in North Bombay. In an unlikely coalition, the Swatantra, Jana Sangh, and Praja Socialist parties are backing Jiwatram Bhagwandas Kripalani, 74, a lean, acerbic former Congress Party president who fell out with Nehru, formed the Praja Socialists in 1951, is now an independent. To combat this alliance, Bombay's Communist Party has put its organization at the disposal of Congress Candidate Menon: Menon's defeat-or even a narrow victory-would be the most dramatic repudiation of Nehru's aggressive socialism...
...news sent a shudder of horror through India. Indian newspapers called it "a calamity." What outraged them was that 200 cows living in a large rest home maintained by Punjab state died last week of malnutrition and exposure. Two M.P.s of the right-wing, ultra Hindu Jana Sangh Party related the horrible details: a thousand cattle had been crowded together at Mattewara in flimsy bamboo sheds, sinking in mud and dung until they keeled over to provide grisly feasts for vultures and jackals. Mightily embarrassed, the state government sent its director of animal husbandry flying from Chandigarh to move...