will mark the coming general elections should be recognised from the prepara- tions going on inside the Congress(I) camp. Notorious gangsters and hoodlums are not only being led along the war-path to break up opposition meetings (as happened recently in the Delhi University, when NSUI members stormed a meeting addressed by L M S Namboodiripad and beat up SFI students), but are being catapulted to positions of leadership to prepare them to become candidates in the elections.