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...once impregnable Congress stronghold in Gujarat on India's west coast, Minocher Rustom Masani, 57, general secretary of the right-wing Swatantra Party, downed a Congress nominee by an impressive majority of 14,000 votes. To the north in Uttar Pradesh, Socialist Dr. Ram Manohar Lohia, who took his defeat at the hands of Nehru himself in last year's election, trounced a former government Information Minister. Worst slap of all came in another Uttar Pradesh constituency, where victory came to lean, acerbic Independent J. B. Kripalani, 76, the veteran Congress politician who had left the party...
...week's end, Nehru finally got off dead center through the declaration of a state of emergency, putting the nation on a war footing. India's elder statesman, Chakravarti Rajagopalachari, leader of the conservative Swatantra Party, demanded that Nehru fire Menon as De fense Minister and take over the post himself. He charged that India's defense policy "has proved to be a miserable failure. It is meaningless to accuse the enemy of cheating-it's the enemy's business to cheat." Rajaji mourned that India stood alone: "All our neighbors are either against...
...Swatantra Party, which campaigned for free enterprise and was slandered as "fascist" by Nehru, won more state legislature seats (159) than any other party, but its strength was largely limited to three conservative states, Bihar, Gujerat and Rajasthan, where the beauteous Maharani of Jaipur defeated the Congress Party candidate in the election's biggest victory. The party was beaten in all major cities, stands third in Parliament with 18 seats. The Swatantra's plucky leader Chakravarti Rajagopalachari, called it a rout, but asked his supporters for the "patience and grit" to rally again...
...Nehru and Krishna Menon. Sure of his own Uttar Pradesh constituency (he romped home with a better than two-to-one lead over Socialist Leader Dr. Ram Manohar Lohia), Nehru throughout the campaign focused most of his efforts on Krishna Menon's fight for North Bombay. Nehru castigated Swatantra and right-wing Congress members, but only mildly criticized the Communist Party, which virtually took over Menon's campaign against J. B. Kripalani, the conservative coalition candidate who accused India's Defense Minister of twisting foreign policy to accommodate the Reds. But most voters showed little concern...
Tipping the Scales. Candidates cannonaded each other with a barrage of epithets. So corrupt and inefficient is Congress, raged Chakravarti Rajagopalachari. leader of the free-enterprise Swatantra Party, that "it is time for us to open our umbrellas to protect ourselves against the heavy drizzle of Congress maladministration." The party, "C.R." continued, is only Nehru's "donkey ... a band of bakasuras [mythological Hindu demons], a swarm of locusts, a band of tyrants." Retorted Nehru: "He is cursing for the sake of cursing." Lashing out against the Swatantra's threat to his doctrinaire brand of socialism, Nehru said: "Rajaji...