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He diverted the
leaders who had a slight idea to contest and met 540 Congress M.Ps , 15 state
C.Ms and some important Congress leaders and understood their views and conveyed
his and the public opinion to them and finally gathered all together and elected
next P.M. which was not an easy task of Kamaraj. As S.KPatil and Nanda said it
was history famed giant task.
After cremation of Nehruji , Kamaraj met
President Radhakrishnan . President informed Kamaraj that the senior minister ,
Mr.Nanda took charge as interim Prime Minister and the leader to Congress for
Parliament was to be elected.
From that time onwards the eyes of the
world which were on India had turned towards Kamaraj. The people who asked
" Who was after Nehru" now eagerly looking at Kamaraj as what he was
going to do. From that day onwards Kamaraj did not even wink his eyes. The
name "KAMARAJ" appeared in bold letters in the newspapers of the
world.
For the first time he invited Malavya and
Morarji and had a talk with them. He convinced them to obey the orders of
Congress working committee , there were opposition to elect the leader of the
party to Parliament (P.M) according to the instructions of the working committee
Kamaraj did not care that . He pointed out the election of President and
Vice-president by the working committee.
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