Word: shastri
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Both the hyperbole and the hypersensitivity of that statement are typical of Mrs. Gandhi, who came to power in 1966 after the sudden death of her father's successor as Prime Minister, Lai Bahadur Shastri. In choosing Mrs. Gandhi, who had served briefly as Minister of Information and Broadcasting under Shastri, the ruling bosses of the Congress Party apparently hoped to acquire a politically popular but compliant Prime Minister...
Child of the Nation. An irony of Indira's extraordinary showing was that the old conservative bosses who once ruled her party chose her to replace the late Lai Bahadur Shastri in 1966 primarily because they thought they could manipulate her. Though no modern leader has been so carefully groomed for leadership as Indira was in her father's house, there was no hint that her sense of duty would become one of mission, even destiny. As Nehru's only daughter, she grew up "a child of the nation," known and loved...
...airline reorganization that nationalized Air-India, the country's international carrier. Even more important than his ministerial work is his role, conferred by Gandhi 23 years ago, as the Congress Party's harijan leader. It provides him with a powerful fulcrum. When Prime Minister Lai Bahadur Shastri died in 1966, Ram swung his bloc of more than 50 harijan parliamentary votes behind Indira Gandhi, assuring her election as Prime Minister over a conservative Syndicate faction rival. The Syndicate's bosses have never forgiven him. Recently, they tried to break him with charges of tax fraud...