Word: shastri
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...former ambassador to India predicted that Lal Bahadur Shastri will be elected "within the next couple of days, and that will be that." Shastri is minister without portfolio in the cabinet of Jawaharlal Nehru, who died Wednesday of a heart attack...
Lloyd I. Rudolph, assistant professor of Government, agreed with Galbraith that succession will be smooth. "There is every expectation that Shastri will be chosen Friday," said Rudolph, but cautioned that the new prime minister faces a "fantastically difficult...
...Shastri, he said, is "the man most likely to prevent splits in the Congress Party," but he is now in "a very vulnerable position" because of his involvement on the Kashmir situation...
...Shastri took the initiative in releasing Sheik Mohammed Abdullah, the Kashmiri leader imprisoned in 1953 after advocating independence for Kashmir. Abdullah, freed by India last year, is now talking "in a muted and quiet way as if he would still like an independent Kashmir," according to Rudolph...
Abdullah's politicking has "completely upset the Kashmir situation" because it undermines the basic Indian postion that Kashmir belongs to India. Indian leftists, said Rudolph, are attacking the release of Abdullah, and opposition to Shastri as a result of the issue is the one thing that could prevent his election...