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 | | ASOKA Mehta, who died in Delhi on December 10, 1984 at 73 years of age, in a way symbolised, more than anyone else, the tragedy of the socialist movement in India: a promise that never reached fulfilment. |
 | | The youngest of the founding fathers of the Congress Socialist Party (he was only 23 when he teamed up with Jayaprakash Narayan, Acharya Narendra Deva and others) in 1934, he could have become one of its greatest leaders if the electoral rout of the Socialist Party in 1952 had not totally disoriented his perspectives. |
 | | These theories set in motion a process which not only broke up the Socialist Party, but ultimately resulted in many socialists becoming the sappers and miners of the Congress Party, with Asoka himself finally joining the Congress in 1963 to provide an aura of authenticity to the fraud of Mrs Gandhi's socialist pretensions. |
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