Madhu Limaye (1922-1995) was an Indian Socialist essayist and activist, particularly active in the 1970s. A follower of Ram Manohar Lohia and a fellow-traveller of George Fernandes, he was active in the Janata coalition that gained power at the Centre following the Emergency; he, with Raj Narain and Krishan Kant was also responsible for the collapse of the Morarji Desai government installed by that coalition, by insisting that no member of the Janata party could simultaneously be a member of an alternative social or political organisation.
He showed less antipathy to the memory of Mrs. Gandhi than could have been expected, reserving his anger for Jawaharlal Nehru, who he seemed to think "could have set a standard beyond reproach, but did not."
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