Articles by Nagindas Sanghavi

President's Rule: Temporary Quiet Nagindas Sanghavi The imposition of President's Rule in Gujarat cannot be justified on the grounds that have been given for it It is an unwarranted act destroying a democratically constituted government in the state, emphasising once again the urgent need for either scrapping or at least drastically modifying Article 356 of the Constitution. In fact the chain of events in Gujarat has shown up every constitutional authority involved in poor light.

GUJARAT Limits of Regional Politics Nagindas Sanghavi THE Congress debacle in Andhra and Karnataka has sharpened the focus ot its third stronghold, Gujarat, where the dissidents have taken the unusual step of quitting the mother party to establish a regional entity named National Congress. The emergent organisation is still to assume a structural and programmatic shape, but its founding convention attracted unexpected crowd of veteran Congress leaders and grass- root workers, Ratubhai Adani has been given a free hand to finalise its constitutional set up and forge its ad hoc organisation.

Competitive Populism Nagindas Sanghavi THE wind of factionalism that the Congress party had sown in 1973-74 in Gujarat is now being reaped. The scenario, the technique and even the end-purpose are the same; only the characters