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...from the party four former ministers who openly criticized him, including V.P. Singh, the driving force behind probes of corruption early in Gandhi's administration. Singh, 56, has emerged as the leader of a burgeoning opposition movement that embraces both Congress (I) Party dissidents and opposition leaders. Says V.C. Shukla, one of the former ministers expelled by Gandhi: "Unless Rajiv Gandhi goes, the Congress ((Party)) will be ruined...
Although India's constitution guarantees religious freedom, the political boss of Madhya Pradesh, 78-year-old Ravishanker Shukla, is crusading against the Christians. First he appointed a committee of five Hindus to smell out examples of Christian subversion and of conversion by force or fraud. The committee began combing the state for testimony about Christian "spying," Christian threats, mission "dens of immorality...
Last week, in the state capital of Nagpur, Politician Shukla brought the campaign to a climax. Behind a crowd-catching corps of dancing drummers and yellow-painted naked men wearing tails to look like tigers, a horde of Hindus danced past the twin-spired Anglican cathedral. They moved on to the great statue of Ganesha, the elephant-headed god, round whose pachydermous head flared a halo of electric lights. Meanwhile, people crowded the hall of the legislative assembly to watch Christians trying to answer such needling questions as: "If a mission doctor prays to the Christian God before performing...
Chandralekha Shukla, 19-year-old Wellesley junior, niece of imprisoned Pandit Nehru of India, where she was once locked up herself, told a Manhattan reporter: "I suppose I should be glad I went to jail, because I got an A for some character studies at Wellesley as a result of having observed people closely while there...