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About the only thing on which Patil and Menon agree is that the Congress Party is fatally sick and will most likely come apart in the national elections scheduled for 1972. Patil sees himself as a "ladder" between the Congress Party and such rightist groupings as the Swatantra and the Jana Sangh. He also hopes to make fruitful contact with the Praja Socialists, who broke away from the Congress Party but have never joined the leftist front because they hate Communists as much as Patil does...
...Chief Minister, is Mr. Mahamaya Prasad Sinha, the leader of Jana Kranti Dal, a breakaway wing of the state Congress. Again, the coalition which has captured power in Orissa consists of the Jana Congress or People's Congress, a breakaway splinter of the state Congress and the Swatantra or Freedom Party...
Indeed, much more remarkable than the gains made by the extreme left and the extreme right, have been the gains made by such moderate, democratic parties like Bangla Congress, Jana Congress, Jana Kranti Dal and Swatantra Party. The first three parties are breakaway units of the Congress and share much of its moderate approach to social and economic issues. Unlike these and the Congress, the Swantantra does not believe in economic planning. But then it is not communal, is firmly wedded to the democratic principle and does not have any extra-territorial loyalty like the Communists. Their emergence as important...
Young Appeal. The biggest gainers were two young, aggressive parties. Into second place in Parliament (with 41 seats won at week's end) went the Swatantra Party, which was founded only eight years ago. By far India's most pro-West party, Swatantra stands for free enterprise, appeals to India's growing middle class and business interests. Third place went to the Jana Sangh Party, which has won 33 seats so far. A conservative Hindu party that wants to reassert India's historic greatness, the Jana Sangh championed a national ban on cow slaughter, campaigned...
...will spend $100 million on electioneering. Because three-quarters of India's electorate is illiterate, voters will show their preference by stamping an X above a symbol representing their favorite of nine parties: a yoked pair of bullocks for the Congress Party, a star for the free-enterprising Swatantra Party...