It was widely acknowledged that Nehru had set the country a bad example. (Granville 1999; pp.606–7) SarDesai and Mohan have emphasized that in the centre–state arena, Nehru made use of Article 356 for the imposition of President’s Rule on six occasions, under pressure from within his own party, to institutionalize the predominant position of the Congress Party. The net result of this was that no non-Congress chief minister lasted his full term of office in the Nehru era.
