Amidst the chaos in the government, the Jan Congress released its economic policy, worked upon by Ram Gopal, the then Working President of the party. The policy heavily cited and drew on Gandhi to lay out a post-facto analysis of India’s economic predicament. The path forward was allayed thus: India could only prosper if it maintained fidelity to Gandhi’s vision of village-based autonomy, focusing on de-centralising industry and preventing the concentration of power. This goal was to take democracy and industrial prosperity to our very germ-cell: the Indian village which had been long impoverished by colonialism, corruption and neglect. This is an early example of Charan Singh’s political thinking and his elevation of the rural-agrarian to the national centre-stage.