Opinion May 2, Forty Years Ago
A look at the front page of Indian Express on May 2, published forty years ago.
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A look at the front page of Indian Express on May 2, published forty years ago.
Saigon no more
The National Liberation Front forces renamed Saigon as Ho Chi Minh city on May 1, and consolidated their position in South Vietnam. A related report said the provisional government in South Vietnam was sending a permanent representative to New Delhi to establish a diplomatic mission. The first secretary of the North Vietnamese embassy in New Delhi, Do Ngoc An, held a press meet and said the unification of Vietnam was a dream of Ho Chi Minh and it would be undertaken step by step.
The Thai Foreign Minister said 25,000 US troops and 350 aircraft would be withdrawn from the country soon.
Taking on China
New Delhi accused China of wanting to “disturb the stability and peace of the region and encourage disagreement and suspicion among the countries of the region to serve the purpose”. The foreign ministry was responding to an earlier statement by Peking, refusing to recognise Sikkim’s merger with India.
Raj Narain’s petition
Raj Narain’s petition in the Allahabad High Court challenging Prime Minister Indira Gandhi’s election from Rae Bareli was back in the news. Indira’s counsel, S.C. Khare, told the court that the petition was only meant to malign her. He described it as “a propaganda project of the opposition parties of the grand alliance”. Events triggered by the case culminated in the Emergency.
JP in AP
Former Andhra Pradesh chief minister and Lok Sabha speaker Neelam Sanjiva Reddy, who had retired from active politics after losing the presidential election to V.V. Giri in 1969, said in Hyderabad that he was inspired by Jayaprakash Narayan’s call for Total Revolution to “come once again to the political forefront”. Reddy returned to active politics and was elected president during the Janata government’s tenure.
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