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In electoral politics, Tata was generally aligned with his eldest brother, K.R. Karanth, who had resigned as a cabinet minister in 1948 to protest the emerging corruption in the Congress party. K.R. Karanth then got involved with the Praja Socialist Party (PSP), with stalwarts like Acharya Kripalani, Ashoka Mehta and H.V. Kamath, at one point becoming the vice president of that party. Supporting his brother, Tata contested as a PSP candidate from the Puttur Assembly segment in 1952.
Amma told me a story about how, when Kripalani was addressing local voters in Hindi, which practically no one understood, the audience became restless and inattentive. Angered by this, Kripalani roared in Hindi, 'Tum Sabh Gadhe Ho!' (You are all donkeys!) There was a moment of silence until the local interpreter caught up to sheepishly announce: 'Naavellaroo Katthegalanthe!' (This man thinks we are all donkeys!)
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