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Born in Allahabad (the home town of Nehru), Tandon started life as a lawyer. He soon threw up his promising career to join Gandhi's struggle for independence and was imprisoned seven times. Tandon's family was poor and has remained poor; he always refuses assistance from the Congress Party's rich patrons. He has often missed meals and worn rags. But, at a time when corruption and nepotism are deeply rooted in many Congress Party leaders, Tandon's unimpeachable integrity shines brightly in his favor...
Neon Ads & Cow Protection. Last week visitors to Gandhinagar got a glimpse of both Tandon's traditional past and Nehru's wondrous future. Sitting in a specially built, galvanized iron-sheeted dining hall, they ate Tandon's strict orthodox menu: rice, wheat pancakes, lentils, sweets, vegetables, buttermilk. Shuffling around the ten-stall "village uplift" exhibition they gaped at tractors, bulldozers and an improved oil seed crusher. They gasped at a lecture on artificial insemination (illustrated with plaster models) and were dazzled by shimmering neon advertisements. They saw posters on the evils of drink; noted the stall which...
...more urgent importance than unlimited cow protection was Tandon's demand that the government put more pressure on the 40 million Moslems in India. He argued that the Moslem government of Pakistan would never stop persecuting its Hindu minority (12 million) until the Pakistanis were convinced that India would retaliate in kind...
Nehru, overconfident, had not openly campaigned against Tandon. But at Gandhinagar the Pandit set about making up for lost time. Driving around in his bloodred, brand-new Oldsmobile convertible, Nehru made 13 speeches...
...recognizing Communist China. But when some Congress leaders said that the U.S. was motivated by imperialism, Nehru defended the U.S. He said that the present world crisis was due to fear of each other on the part of two rival blocs. Then he took direct issue with Tandon on Pakistan. Nehru's resolution said: "Whatever disputes and conflicts may exist now or may arise in the future between India and Pakistan, they should be considered as political problems between two countries and should be treated as such. In no event should communalism or the misuse of religion be allowed...