Word: tapuriah
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...young parties appealed to India's voters. Congress Party President Kamaraj Nadar was bested by a 28-year-old student leader. Rail Minister S. K. Patil, a leading member of the party's kingmaking "Syndicate," was unseated by a 36-year-old former dock worker. Surendra Tapuriah, the young man who modeled his hairdo and politics after Bobby Kennedy, won by a landslide. To a younger candidate, too, fell fiery old Leftist Krishna Menon, 69, in a defeat that undoubtedly ended his stormy political career...
Ronald Reagan, Movie Idol M. G Ramachandran, is running for the state assembly in Madras. There is even a "Kennedy" candidate for Parliament: a young man named Surendra Tapuriah. who affects a shaggy forelock, makes his pitch to the young and otherwise fashions himself in the Bobby Kennedy mold...
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