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Indira still an idol for Cong, but her political legacy fades
NEW DELHI Oct 29: Ten years after her assassination, former Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi remains an idol for the ruling Congress (1) Parry, but her political legacy has been given a quiet burial, reports AFP
Indira Gandhi, who ruled the world's largest democracy for sixteen years. Is now remembered solely on the anniversaries of her birth and death by a party she twice saved from political death.
Her Machiavellian qualities, which she used to remain on top in the unpredfetabfe world ot Indian pofirirs now Invite ridicule and scorn from com mentators
Even tfie Congress avoids looking back at her 20-month "emergency rule" of 1975-77. during whiqh constitutional rights were suspended and thousands of opposition ac tlvtsts jailed
Her pro-Arab and pro-Soviet foreign policy was shattered by the end of the Cold War. And the present government's free market policies have over whelmed her socialist rhetoric and her distaste for lalssez faire economics
The Congress. India s oldest political party, of course de nies il has forgotten Indira who was shot by hetr Sikh bodyguards on October 31 1984
"We still lielfeve In her legacy Congress spokesman Vtthal Gadgll said We are not departing from her policies."
Few political pundits agree with the claim.
Chandra Shekhar, a former Congress stalwart who broke ranks with Indira in 1975 after 10 years as a loyal supporter, said the party has firmly turned its back on the slain prime minister
"Her social and economic policies are still valid because India Is facing the same problems. said Shekhar, who waa premier for nearly seven months unttl June 1991 when P V Naraslmha Rao took office
"But the present admlnla
trators do not seem' to have the same wisdom." he said In an interview at hla farmhouse on New Delhi's outskirts.
"We have all but forgotten Indira Gandhi." said a prominent Rao critic in the ruling party who spoke on condition of anonymity. Rao Is trying his liest to wipe away her memory "
Indira, the only child of India'a’first prime nflnlater. Jawaharlal Nehru, waa considered a political novice when she became premier in January 1966
The "dumb doll" — as she was known — quickly mastered the ropes, however, and took on her powerful detractors. In
1969. she split the Congress over her socialist policiej, sending a rival faction into limbo
Two years later. Indira waa at the peak of her career, leading India to a decisive mil itarv victory over arch-enemy Pakistan, whose eastern wing emerged as independent Bangladesh despite US opposl tlon.
In 1974, she oversaw the test explosion of a nuclear bomb, which took Washington by surprise and sparked a nuclear race In South Asia that continues today
The next year, she annexed Sikkim, a country that bordered Nepal and China.