![]() ![]() ![]() Kamaraj, who hailed from Tamil Nadu, decided to keep a distance from the violence-hit state. Shastri, meanwhile, adopted a wait-and-watch policy and many other senior party leaders, including K. According to one biographer, Indira Gandhi, who was the Union information and broadcasting minister in former prime minister Lal Bahadur Shastri’s cabinet, “decided to fly down to Madras (now Chennai) to quell the trouble" when Tamil Nadu was boiling with anti-Hindi agitation in 1965. ![]() If either the Congress president, who is still revered as the most accepted leader in Andhra Pradesh, or Rahul Gandhi, who is expected to inspire the youth and lead the party in the upcoming electoral tests, go back to their family history, they will find that both Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru and Indira Gandhi always tried to be in touch with the people in trouble-hit regions. ![]()
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