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On 15 Feberuary 1967, ITN's John Edwards reported from India on the country's fourth General Election campaign. Edwards focused on the apparent inability of the Congress Party to solve the country's problems, and examined two manifestations of the resulting widespread national disenchantment: the strength of the Communist Party in Kerala; and the political resurgence of the Princes. Prime Minister Mrs Indira Gandhi, interviewed between electioneering speeches, refuted the suggestion that democracy could not solve India's main problems. Gandhi argued that the success of the Communists in Kerala, while reflecting the general popular discontent stemming from high unemployment, had specifically local origins. Elsewhere in the country, Hinduism stifled Communism. Another sign of the waning power of the Congress Party Edwards found was the return to public life of 200 Maharajahs who were attacking the government from the right. Maharani of Jaipur, seen campaigning in poor villages, told Edwards that Indians did not want a return to princely rule but look back with nostalgia to an earlier period of cheap, plentiful food and low taxes.
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