With great to-do last June, India's Communist Party shifted headquarters from Bombay to Madras. Reason: in the general elections, the Reds had scored their biggest vote in Madras state and in adjoining Travancore-Cochin and Hyderabad (they got 12½% of the Madras vote compared to 4½% of all India's).
With little to-do last week the Communists shifted headquarters again, from Madras to New Delhi. Probable reason: an effective anti-Communist program in Madras (including land reform, an alliance of non-Communist parties against the Reds, close police watch on Red activities). The program is being carried out by Madras' tough old (73) Chief...
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