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...MORARJ DESAI--The former Deputy Prime Minister of India, Desai was imprisoned after resigning from Gandhi's cabinet in protest over the declared "emergency" rule. Desai was released from prison in January and immediately organized the opposition to Gandhi's regime into the Janata coalition...
...reports were watched closely and news correspondents found themselves ... writing unfavorably about the political scene. Information about the current political situation grew scarce as foreign academics were denied entrance visas to study contemporary Indian problems. Gandhi jailed most of her political opponents, among them former Deputy Prime Minister Morarj Desai, socialist leader George Fernandes, and dissident L.K. Advani...
...gifted tactician, Mrs. Gandhi not only stunned the electorate but once again confounded her opponents. Morarji Desai, 80, the wily leader of the Old Congress Party and an implacable political foe of Mrs. Gandhi's, suddenly found himself released from jail only a few hours before Mrs. Gandhi's broadcast. The relatively short campaign period, he complained, "puts a hardship on the opposition. But I am sure that the sudden declaration of an election will benefit not the Prime Minister but the nation." Declared Piloo Mody, secretary of the Indian People's Party: "I am happy about...
...opposition will have difficulty disputing this claim and may be reduced to campaigning chiefly against a repressive rule that is now, after all, largely suspended. Moreover, Morarji Desai and his fellow challengers must contend with the fact that the governing Congress Party has won every national election since India became independent in 1947. One of the main reasons for this consistent success has been that the opposition parties have long been victimized by ideological differences and widespread disunity. This time the opposition will be further handicapped by a lack of funds and the disarray in its grassroots organizations caused...
...overcome these difficulties, four groups-the right-wing Hindu Jana Sangh, the conservative Indian People's Party, the Socialist Party and the Old Congress Party-announced that they will form a united front and run a single slate of candidates to prevent fragmentation of the opposition vote. Said Desai: "We are interested only in getting a thumping majority." But the betting is that Indira Gandhi will once again do the thumping...