Word: andhra
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...India's other major political parties. Facing Gandhi are a former Maharani, Vijaya Reje Scindia, on the Janata ticket, and Mahipal Singh Shastri, representing Lok Dal. But in case of a slip-up in Rae Bareli, Gandhi has taken the precaution of running in a second constituency, in Andhra Pradesh, the only one of India's states that Gandhi's party now rules...
...drizzle gave way to heavy rains and eventually to squalls. In the tiny hamlet of Komali in Andhra state, on the Bay of Bengal, the parson of Christ Church flung open the church doors and called his flock from their thatched houses. "Come unto me, all ye that labor and are heavy laden," he intoned in a deep bass, "and I will give you rest." About 125 villagers, most of them harijan (untouchable) converts, took shelter. When winds ranging up to 100 m.p.h. ripped off the roof, the walls crumbled and entombed the congregation; all were found dead the next...
...issue behind the separatist rebellion is primarily economic. The more affluent Andhras charge that the economically depressed Telanganans have demanded special privileges for themselves ever since the two areas were joined together in 1956 to form the state of Andhra Pradesh. The discontent came to a head when the Indian Supreme Court ruled last October that a series of antiquated laws known as the "Mulki rules" were constitutional. The laws, enacted in 1918 to preserve jobs for local workers when the Nizam of Hyderabad was importing help from other parts of India to staff his princely concerns, give preference...
...Gandhi fears that if the Andhras are allowed to have their own separate state, it will open a Pandora's box of similar demands in other states plagued by economic disparities. Already, factions in her home state of Uttar Pradesh, as well as in Madhya Pradesh and Bihar, have made known their intention to seek realignment along economic lines. On the other hand, dividing Andhra Pradesh into two states may be the most equitable solution, since the Telanganans are as eager to have a separate state of their own as the Andhras...
Late last week, the separatists announced that if statehood was not granted by Feb. 5 they would take unspecified "revolutionary measures." Undoubtedly mindful that Andhra was originally created in 1953 after a follower of Mohandas Gandhi fasted until he died to plead for statehood, a separatist leader, Subba Reddy, declared that if necessary he would immolate himself to achieve the same goal...