Thus the crony capitalism and industrialists influencing the appointment and removal of ministers, as seen later, for example, in the Vajpayee’s NDA (removal of Jagmohan from the Ministry of Telecommunications) and UPA I and II (appointment of Raja as telecommunications minister and the removal of Mani Shankar Iyer and Jaipal Reddy from the Ministry of Petroleum) regimes, was in operation even during the Nehru era!
