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Phones: 23-5801& 23-9816/17(with Extns) GRAM: "COPLAMA" \ NOW GULZARILAL GOES Vol. 3: No.6:: November 11, 1966 O, after all, he has left, the redoubtable Mr Gulzari Lal Nanda, the On Other Pages S Home Minister who had so far excelled in the art of misleading this - country, taking extraordinary precautions when the imaginary wolf COMMENTS 4 served his purpose, and being slack and lackadaisical when there were snakes in the grass. His men failed to detect in time the infiltrators' ANDHRA-BLOOD AND FIRE in Kashmir last year and the failure was portentious, leading to a brief but ruinous war, the penalty for which the country paid in devaluation FROM A CORRESPONDENT 7 of the rupee and of our self-respect. His White Paper on the Left DELHI LETTER Communists proved nothing and so far not a single rugged guerilla CLASH OF STEEL has been rounded up. As for th'e many explosions of popular unrest FROM A POLITICAL almost all over the country, the poor Mr Nanda and his men need not CORRESPONDENT 10 be blameu for their inability to read the writing on the wall, became things have come to such a pass that they have ceased to be mere law- BIHAR--SHADOWS OF FAMINE and-order problems. DEOKI NANDAN SINGH 11 About the sadhus, Mr Nanda, who is associated with the Bharat Sadhu Samaj, should have known better. There was trouble in September CALCUTA DIARY on the same issue-cow-slaughter-and the Jan Sangh prepared for a J. MOHAN ]2 rally. But the Home Minister, like the late Prime Minister, was known to have a soft corner for certain organisations, the RSS being one of THE PRESS them. The way civil defence in Delhi was taken over almost overnight PARLEYS: DELHI AND by the RSS in September last year with the blessings of the top men of MANILA 15 the Government was astonishing and alarming. The point is, the IN ANGLO-INDIA Congress, which is not a monolithic party in the good sense, tolerates too many reactionary elements and allows itself to be dominated by the LAWRENCE BANTLEMAN ]8 ruling spirit of Aryabarta, the hear~land of Hindi. Some of these "INSTANT" HISTORY elements, had they the power, would perhaps reintroduce even sutti. RAMA MAJUMDER 20 Militant ,Hinduism has been on the offensive in many areas of the country. At times it explodes in attacks on the minority community; LETTERS 21 at others it finds expression in the agitation against cow-slaughter and for Hindi as the official language. The case against cow-slaughter is so flimsy that it should have been EDITOR: SAMAR SEN. PRINTED BY dismissed. But the pity is that most parties in India operate on a limited HIM AT MODERN INDIA PRESS, 7 RAJA SUBODH MULl.ICI<: SQUAR>:, ideological plane. They never carryon a campaign against old practices, CALCUTTA-13 AND PUBLISHED BY HIM old ideas, old habit.~. It is difficult to undertake such a campaign where FOR NATION TRUST FROM 54 GANESH CHUNDER AVENUE, CALCUTTA-l3. millions of men are illiterate, but it has to be undertaken somehow. TELEPHONE: 24-5713. Otherwise, after one or two steps forward in economic and political terms, there will be five backward steps. All of a sudden, masses of people will Subscription work themselves up into a frenzy over issues like cow-slaughter and it may (INLAND) Yearly Rs. 15.00 n9t be too difficult to turn this frenzy agaiI).st beef-eaters. It must be re- Half-Yearly .. Rs. 7.50 membered that the agitation against cow-slaughter and communalism of the worst type have gone together. For the sake of the dumb animal for REVISED FOREIGN MAIL RATES whom nothing -much is ever done, human beings are set upon and killed. By Air Mail The Delhi incident needs a probe. Who were behind it? The Europe Rs. 104 or 13 dollars Asia Rs. 72 or 9 dollars sadhus, including those who went about stark naked in the capital of America Rs. 152 or 19 dollars India, are not yet known for their organising capacity. Allegations of By Surface Mail Jan Sangh and RSS complicity have neither been denied nor confirmed, All countries: Rs. 32 or 4 dollars though the police have arrested a Jan Sangh MP. Is it a fact that speci<ll NOW trains were run to bring in the sadhus In an almost similar situation understandable, but the Co with their tridents and spears? And Andhra politicians got a State of their party and governmen t in tlte why this rally when Mrs Gandhi and own and set in motion a process are too far gone on the road of Mr Nanda had given in to the de- which has over a decide wrought sure politics to retrace their mand? All this cries for an imme- many changes in the map of India, Over the years the Centre has diate enquiry and precautionary ~c- the last of them only a few days ago. ed in the. fostering of an impres tion because the trouble may spIll That the Andhra politicians are up that it acts only under pressure, over beyond Delhi, the sadhu and to their old game is beyond doubt. a hard knock alone breaks its im the cow being so dear to millions of The Chief Minister, Mr Brahmananda sivity. More serious than tha Hindu hearts. Reddy, has not thought it necessary has generated a belief that fai Even after Mr N anda has gone, light to conceal that he is with the agi- has no place in its decision-mak will not descend on the country. Those tators. His sudden air-dash to New it is moved only by experi in the Congress party who have been Delhi at the height of trouble to com- Agitations such as in Andhra, quick to move against him are not misserate with the Central leaders and ever may engineer them, are al angels. One of them maintained a his subsequent statements underscore an expression of this loss of fai profound silence for many, d~ys d~r- his involvement. Maybe he has a the people in the sense of justi ing the January 1964 kIllIngs 111 special reason to avow his alliance; the Government in New Delhi. Calcutta but was quite vocal w~1en he may have found in the agitation Mr N anda, under instructions from an opportunity to cut down to size Patil Again the Prime Minister, urged some res- his rival in the State Congress, traint upon the W~st Bengal Gov- Mr N. Sanjeeva Reddy, who has a The ascendance of Mr S. K. ernment during the March upheaval. habit of alternating between chief in the Union Cabinet has been s These men are glad that they have ministership in Andhra and office of ever since he appointed himself slaughtered the Home Minister pol,iti- one kind or another at the Centre. emissary of the. late Mr Lal Bah cally, taking advantage of the aglt,a- ''''here vel' the fifth steel plant may be Shastri to the United States. tion against cow-slaughter. They wIll finally located, it seems the present change in prime ministership has be able to tell the foreigners and the Chief Minister has succeeded in his affect.ed his fortune, and judgin Swatantra that Mr Nanda has gone other objective. Mr Sanjeeva Reddy the authority and confidence because of his failure to maintain has denied that as the Union Steel which he has started speaking law and order. And they will tell Minister he dilly-dallied over the subjects that by no means come the devout that he has been got rid technical committee's report recom- in his domain he must be very of because he was too finn with the J:l1ending the plant at Visakhapatnam. the summit now. He has practi sadhus. Of such politicians is the But factionalism in the Andhra Con- become a second Home Minister, kingdom of India. gress will not allow the matter to rest it should not be surprisi.ng if he at. this denial, and the campaign as his sight trained on the pOl' also the agitation may receive further held by M[. Nanda, now under In Its Own Juice fanning. ther cloud because of the sadh It is doubtful if the Centre really the rampage. As the for Andhra Pradesh is still at a sim- believes that the people will take election operator of the Co mer. Troops are being rushed to seriously its plea that. aJ;l immediate party, he will not set too different parts of the State, and de- decision is not possible in vi~w of the a price if he wants to exchang monstrations of frustration and anger uncertainty of resources. Many of specialised skill for the home continue. Whether the situation the fourth plan projects on which the tership of India.