Trusting to Luck

Trusting to Luck Romesh Thapar ACTUALLY, there are no words in the vocabulary of politics to describe the current scene in the Capital. In the absence abroad of the Prime Minister, 10 Cabinet meetings are to be held. Charan Singh, reportedly nursing a semi-paralysed leg in hospital, has obviously vetoed such meetings for fear hat Jagjivan Ram might preside. The Jan Sangh/RSS welcome this strange blackmail as an assertion of power. And the public attacks on the party's President, Chandrasekhar, by Charan Singh's reigning favourite, Raj Narain, are now published every day by an obedient press on the front page. Far ay in London and Washington, Morarji Desai talks of normalities.