Word: sangh
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...pact was quickly approved by the Indian Parliament, even winning the support of some of the opposition right-wing parties. A.B. Vajpayee, leader of the archconservative Jana Sangh, spoke for most when he declared that the treaty had found a friend for India at a critical juncture. In the five months since the Pakistani civil war broke out, India's economy has been seriously set back by an influx of 8,000,000 East Pakistani refugees. The cost of supporting them has already mounted to more than $300 million, of which other nations, led by the U.S., have contributed...
...Masani and Samyukta Socialist Party Leader Madhu Limaye. One who did manage to keep his seat was Morarji Desai, Indira's old Opposition Congress foe, though his margin was narrowed from 125,000 votes in 1967 to 32,000 last week. Also re-elected were Jana Sangh Leader Atal Bihari Vajpayee, the Rajmatas (Queen Mothers) of Gwalior and Jaipur (see color), and V.K. Krishna Menon, the scourge of Turtle Bay when he headed India's delegation to the United Nations. Now 74 and somewhat less excitable, he ran as an independent...
...have not gone very far toward solving India's multitudinous problems. Squared off against Indira is one of the oddest political alliances ever hatched. The four-party coalition, formed in January, consists of the right-wing, free-enterprise Swatantra Party; the Hindi-speaking, anti-Moslem Jana Sangh; the Opposition Congress Party, a split-off from Indira's Congress Party; and the Samyukta Socialist Party (not to be confused with the older Praja Socialist Party). Asked why hejoined so bizarre a grouping, Swatantra Boss M.R. ("Mi-noo") Masani replied by quoting a local proverb: ''In a family...
...Gandhi has charged that the Jana Sangh wants to do so quite literally-by assassinating her. The idea of violence is not all that remote; in the past month, some 100 persons have died as a result of electoral quarrels. Nevertheless, Indira does not shrink from the huge, open-air rallies that are the mainstay of an Indian campaign. In Hyderabad last week, a hail of shoes and stones was aimed at the rostrum as she spoke. None of the missiles struck her, and Indira, unshaken, inquired: "Has someone opened a new sandal shop in Hyderabad? If so, he must...
Hindu Chauvinism. Despite her colleagues' counsels of caution, Indira was acutely aware of the efforts being made by three opposition parties to form a conservative alliance. These include the right wing of the old Congress Party, the free-enterprising pro-Western Swatantra, and the fast-growing Jana Sangh, which has a strong rural base in the northern Hindi-speaking states. Often accused of pro-Hindu chauvinism, the anti-Moslem Jana Sangh is particularly angry with Indira for having cooperated with the local branch of the Moslem League in last year's Kerala state elections. Mrs. Gandhi, in turn...