When the Congress Party achieved its landslide victory in India's latest general election 15 months ago, the fiercest critics of Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru and former Defense Minister Krishna Menon were swept out of office. But the government's clumsy handling of the Chinese invasion last October gave new hope to the shattered non-Communist opposition. The hope was well founded. In the past fortnight, three of Nehru's most acid-tongued foes have scored overwhelming by-election victories over hand-picked Congress candidates for the Lok Sabha, lower house of Parliament.
In a once impregnable Congress stronghold in Gujarat on India's west coast, Minocher Rustom...
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