Word: gandhis
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...were jammed, while Prime Minister's audiences were embarrassingly apathetic. Three times during a rally at Varanasi, the chairman called for a cheer for Indira, and three times the crowd shouted no. In Lucknow, women in the front of the audience started to leave ten minutes after Mrs. Gandhi began to speak. Tired of news broadcasts on the government-run All India Radio, which ignored the opposition's campaign and burbled endlessly about New Delhi's accomplishments, many Indians began to call it "All Indira Radio...
Almost to the end, Mrs. Gandhi believed her Congress Party machine would believed the vote, as it had done so often before. Sanjay was also convinced that his crowds-dutifully rounded up by party flunkies-were made up of genuine supporters. But when the balloting began, says a friend, the family confidence began to wane. "You could hear it in their conversation. They started wondering...
Opposition leaders were also wondering-about whether Mrs. Gandhi would abide by the election results if they went against her. They noted that paramilitary police, who had been moved to rural voting locations the week before, were suddenly regrouped. In an ominous speech in Uttar Pradesh on March 17, Mrs. Gandhi accused the opposition leaders of trying to create chaos, and the press of printing stories damaging to the national welfare. Some Janata leaders were sufficiently unnerved that they spent the next two nights at the homes of friends-just in case the police should come for them as they...
...Delhi there were reports that when Mrs. Gandhi was warned of impending defeat, an inner circle of advisers tried to persuade her to annul the election, arrest the opposition leaders in the name of stability and reimpose the full force of the emergency. Whether or not the reports are true, Mrs. Gandhi-to her credit-accepted the voters' decision with quiet grace...
...sworn in by Acting President Jatti. The oaths of office and official secrecy were read in Hindi, and in keeping with Desai's wish for austerity, there were no garlands. The new Prime Minister told reporters that he wanted to avoid being "vindictive or vengeful" toward Mrs. Gandhi or her fallen comrades. He announced that she was free to live in her government residence "as long as she wished" (which was only fair, since she had never taken away his official home even during the months he was in prison). In another extraordinary gesture by the victors, J.P. Narayan...