Word: jiwatram
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...Hell." All five major parties are involved in Krishna Menon's re-election fight in North Bombay. In an unlikely coalition, the Swatantra, Jana Sangh, and Praja Socialist parties are backing Jiwatram Bhagwandas Kripalani, 74, a lean, acerbic former Congress Party president who fell out with Nehru, formed the Praja Socialists in 1951, is now an independent. To combat this alliance, Bombay's Communist Party has put its organization at the disposal of Congress Candidate Menon: Menon's defeat-or even a narrow victory-would be the most dramatic repudiation of Nehru's aggressive socialism...
Biggest split in the party came when Purushottamdas Tandon, an orthodox Hindu, managed to get himself elected Congress president last year. Tandon is a right-winger in resolute control of Congress' political machines. Nehru does not like him. In a moment of pique after his election, Nehru backed Jiwatram Bhagwandas Kripalani, a left-winger and disciple of Gandhi, to start an opposition movement against Tandon. The movement grew bigger and louder than Nehru had intended. Whereupon the Prime Minister did exactly what he does on international issues: he climbed on the fence, refused to back either Tandon or Kripalani...
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