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...chief minister of India's southern state of Andhra Pradesh last month, an eruption of protests left 53 dead and hundreds injured. With national elections due to be held by mid-January, many Indians saw his ouster as another in a string of attempts by Prime Minister Indira Gandhi to bring down state governments run by her opponents. Although Mrs. Gandhi denied any role in the removal of Rama Rao, the rising opposition has clearly been damaging to her Congress (I) Party. Last week the state governor, a political ally of the Prime Minister's, ruled that Rama...
Cheering supporters lined the streets of Hyderabad, the state capital, as the popular star greeted his fans from the roof of a van that he has dubbed his "Chariot of Divine Enlightenment." Later he thanked Mrs. Gandhi "for seeing the light." Many of his admirers would like to see him run for Prime Minister against Mrs. Gandhi. After starring in more than 300 feature films during his 31-year career, he would have one important attribute: instant nationwide recognition...
...police bus. The shooting brought the number killed in the riots to 41. In Durban, six political activists whom the government was trying to detain fled to the British consulate, where they were granted sanctuary. The wife of one of the men is Ela Ramgobin, granddaughter of Mahatma Gandhi. Indeed, the week's events seemed likely to overshadow ceremonies for the introduction of the new constitution. Bringing nonwhites into the government for the first time had been achieved by the ruling National Party government with difficulty, and the plan was fiercely opposed by right-wing Afrikaners. The new Parliament...
Democracy in the southern Indian state of Andhra Pradesh was a three-time loser last week. In three consecutive one-day sessions of the state assembly in Hyderabad, the capital, members of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi's Congress (I) Party and defectors from the opposition party shouted obscenities, set firecrackers and otherwise proved so disruptive that each meeting had to be postponed. The sessions were intended to let former Chief Minister N.T. Rama Rao, 61, who was deposed Aug. 16 by Gandhi forces, prove that his dismissal was illegal. The gatherings were also to be a test of political...
...attempts of Congress (I) to buy time and votes, took to the streets in Hyderabad by the thousands, tossing flowers and coins, to show their support for the ousted Chief Minister, a former movie actor. The outpouring of public sympathy for Rama Rao seemed to signal a reversal in Gandhi's popularity, which had been rising steadily since she ordered an army assault on Sikh extremists at the Golden Temple in Amritsar last June. Although Gandhi still denies any involvement in the affairs of Andhra Pradesh, she nonetheless faces two equally unappealing options in the state: she can dismiss...