RAM SUBHAG SINGH & MORARJI DESAI ARRIVING AT S. NIJALINGAPPA'S HOME: S. NIJALINGAPPA ANNOUNCING APPOINTMENTS: ANTI-GANDHI DEMONSTRATION & LEADER ADDRESSING CROWD: MRS. GANDHI POSING FOR PHOTOGRAPHERS AT HER HOME. (SOF & NATSOF)



TRANSCRIPT: NIJALINGAPPA: "THE DECISION IS THAT MR. MORARJI DESAI WILL BE THE CHAIRMAN OF THE ENTIRE PARTY. THAT IS BECAUSE THERE IS SOME DIFFICULTY--BECAUSE THERE ARE TWO HOUSES AND WE CAN'T HAVE A LEADER IN EITHER HOUSE AND MORARJI DESAI, BEING THE SUPREME HEAD OF THIS COMMITTEE, HE WILL THE CHAIRMAN. AND THE LEADER OF THE LOWER HOUSE (LOK SABHA) IS DR. RAM SUBHAG SINGH."



ONE OF THE LEADERS OF MRS. GANDHI: "WE WILL WORK THE CONSTITUTION OF INDIA AS IT WAS INTENDED BY THE FOUNDERS OF THE CONSTITUTION AND NOT BY THE FELLOW-TRAVELLERS WHO ARE GATHERED AROUND INDIRA GANDHI. WE WANT INDIA TO REMEMBER THAT IN THIS ISLAMIC CONFERENCE IT WAS CERTAIN POWERS WHO WANTED TO HUMILIATE INDIA. INDIA IS TOO GREAT A COUNTRY, TOO PATRIOTIC A COUNTRY, TOO NATIONALIST A COUNTY, TO SUFFER HUMILIATION. PRIME MINISTERS MAY COME AND GO BUT THIS COUNTRY SHALL GO ON FOR EVER."




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Background: DR. RAM SUBHAG SINGH--LAST WEEK SACKED BY MRS. GANDHI AS RAILWAY MINISTER--WAS YESTERDAY (MONDAY) ELECTED OPPOSITION LEADER OF INDIA'S LOWER HOUSE OF PARLIAMENT. HIS APPOINTMENT WAS ANNOUNCED AT A MEETING HELD IN THE NEW DELHI HOME OF CONGRESS PARTY PRESIDENT SIDDAVAHALLI NIJALINGAPPA--AT WHICH MR. MORARJI DESAI WAS ELECTED PARTY CHAIRMAN. MEANWHILE, A LARGE DEMONSTRATION GATHERED OUTSIDE PRIME MINISTER INDIRA GANDHI'S HOME, PROTESTING AGAINST THE "HUMILIATION" OF INDIA AT THE RECENT ISLAMIC CONFERENCE IN RABAT.

AFTER THE MEETING AT HIS HOME, MR. NIJALINGAPPA ANNOUNCED THE NEW LEADERSHIP APPOINTMENTS:
MRS. GANDHI LAST WEEK SURVIVED ONE CRISIS WHEN THE OLD GUARD OPPOSITION HEADED BY MR. NIJALINGAPPA DECIDED TO EXPEL HER FROM THE CONGRESS PARTY AND SHE WAS OVERWHELMINGLY SUPPORTED BY THE PARLIAMENTARY PARTY IN A VOTE OF CONFIDENCE. YESTERDAY, THE OPPOSITION PUBLICLY CALLED FOR ANOTHER VOTE OF CENSURE AGAINST THE PRIME MINISTER FOR WHAT THEY TERMED THE "HUMILIATION OF INDIA" AT HAVING TO ACCEPT A LAST-MINUTE INVITATION TO TAKE PART IN THE ISLAMIC SUMMIT AT RABAT, MOROCCO, IN SEPTEMBER. AS SOME 60,000 SUPPORTERS OF THE RIGHTWING JANA SANGH PARTY GATHERED OUTSIDE HER RESIDENCE, THEY WERE ADDRESSED BY ONE OF THEIR LEADERS:
TODAY (TUESDAY), MRS. GANDHI ONCE AGAIN ASSERTED HER LEADERSHIP--AS PARLIAMENT MET AND VOTED ON THE CENSURE MOVE, SHE OBTAINED THE MAJORITY SHE NEEDED AND CRUSHED HER OPPONENTS BY 306 TO 140. A FURTHER TEST OF STRENGTH LOOMS NEXT WEEK, WHEN THE CONGRESS PARTY MEETS AT THE REQUEST OF MRS. GANDHI TO ELECT A NEW PRESIDENT TO REPLACE MR. NIJALINGAPPA--IF SHE EMERGES VICTORIOUS ONCE AGAIN, MRS. GANDHI WILL HAVE GAINED COMPLETE CONTROL OF THE PARTY MACHINE.