INDIA THUNDER ON LEFT & RIGHT ON THE EVE OF THE 16TH 
ANNIVERSARY OF INDIAN INDEPENDENCE, 2,000 DEMONSTRATORS MARCHED OUTSIDE PARLIAMENT IN DELHI, 
WAVING BANNERS AND CHANTING : " LEAVE THE THRONE, JAWAHARLAL . 
" INSIDE THE HORSESHOE-SHAPED CHAMBER, PRIME MINISTER JAWAHARLAL NEHRU FACED THE 
FIRST NO-CONFIDENCE MOTION IN HIS 16 YEARS IN POWER . THE 
CENSURE MOTION WAS SPONSORED BY NEHRU'S MOST OUTSPOKEN POLITICAL FOE, STOOPED, 
ACERBIC J . B . KRIPALANI, A POLITICAL INDEPENDENT WHO WAS 
RETURNED TO PARLIAMENT ONLY TWO MONTHS AGO IN A SURPRISING BY-ELECTION 
VICTORY, AFTER HAVING BEEN SWAMPED BY NOW DISCREDITED EX-DEFENSE MINISTER KRISHNA 
MENON IN LAST YEAR'S GENERAL ELECTION . KRIPALANI PROPOSED TO CENSURE 
THE GOVERNMENT AMONG OTHER THINGS, OVER OFFICIAL CORRUPTION, SPIRALING FOOD PRICES 
AND PROHIBITIVELY HIGH TAXATION . THOUGH KRIPALANI IS PRO-WESTERN, THE CENSURE 
PROPOSAL BECAME AN UMBRELLA FOR ALL KINDS OF OTHER NEHRU CRITICS, 
INCLUDING LEFTISTS ANGERED BY NEHRU'S FEW TENTATIVE STEPS AWAY FROM NONALIGNMENT 
. ONE MAJOR LEFTIST TARGET WAS INDIA'S AGREEMENT TO PERMIT VOICE 
OF AMERICA BROADCASTS FOR THREE HOURS DAILY OVER A TRANSMITTER TO 
BE BUILT BY THE U.S . IN CALCUTTA, AND NEHRU IS 
NOW TRYING TO BACK OUT OF IT . ANOTHER TARGET : 
THE JOINT AIR DEFENSE EXERCISES THAT THE INDIAN AIR FORCE WILL 
SOON HOLD WITH THE U.S . AND BRITISH AIR COMMANDS . 
IN AN EFFORT TO SILENCE HIS LEFTIST CRITICS, NEHRU HAS WON 
EXTENSIVE PROMISES FROM RUSSIA AND ITS SATELLITES FOR MISSILES, FIGHTERS, AND 
SMALL ARMS . TOP GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS EXPECT LITTLE IN SUBSTANCE FROM 
SOVIET AID PROMISES, BUT INSIST THAT THE SYMBOLISM OF SUCH AID 
IS NECESSARY TO MAINTAIN INDIA'S IMAGE OF NONALIGNMENT . WITH NEHRU'S 
CONGRESS PARTY HOLDING A MASSIVE 229-SEAT PLURALITY IN PARLIAMENT, THERE IS 
NO CHANCE THAT THE CENSURE MOTION WILL BE CARRIED . BUT 
NEHRU IS PLAINLY WORRIED OVER THE RISING OPPOSITION ON BOTH THE 
RIGHT AND THE LEFT AND OVER THE BY-ELECTION TREND AWAY FROM 
THE PARTY IN WHAT WERE ONCE CONSIDERED IMPREGNABLE CONGRESS CONSTITUENCIES . 
HE HAS PROMISED TO SHAKE UP HIS GOVERNMENT AND TO DEMAND 
THE RESIGNATION OF SOME CABINET MINISTERS SO THAT THEY CAN WORK 
FULL TIME ON ORGANIZATIONAL DUTIES TO REVITALIZE THE PARTY . NEHRU'S 
PLAN IS SCORNED BY C . RAJAGOPALACHARI, 84, LEADER OF INDIA'S 
SMALL DYNAMIC, FREE-ENTERPRISING SWANTANTRA PARTY . " THEATRICALS DO NOT CURE 
DISEASES, " SAYS C . R . " THE CONGRESS PARTY 
IS SICK, AND I DO NOT WANT SICK PERSONS IN CHARGE 
OF THE GOVERNMENT . " 