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prime ministers indira gandhi
Prime Minister Indira
Gandhi had started with hesitant steps. She had a ‘kitchen cabinet’, composed
largely of the earlier members of the ‘Back-benchers’ Club’, who advised a
low-key approach. For a time she retained LK Jha as her Principal Secretary.
She had respect for his ability, but a major point against him was that he had
been ‘too close to Shastri’. Even so, she was not for any drastic changes
around her.
For a time, Indira
just followed the path chalked out by her advisers and went along with the new
economic policies initiated in the days of Lal Bahadur Shastri. She had
travelled to the US some months after becoming the Prime Minister.
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