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...DELHI, India--Prime Minister Indira Gandhi lost her seat in parliament and her ruling Congress party suffered extensive losses in early returns of the Indian national elections...
After learning of her defeat, Gandhi lifted the state of emergency that has existed in India for 21 months. It is not clear whether the loss of her seat will result in Gandhi's resignation as prime minister...
...Gandhi's son, Sanjay, failed to win his first bid for parliamentary election. Both he and his mother lost to candidates who had previously been imprisoned under the emergency laws...
...Delhi, newspapers wrote of the "ill winds" battering the Prime Minister. To the east, in the city of Patna, an angry crowd interrupted one of her speeches, chanting, "Indira Gandhi, go back!" At the southern tip of the subcontinent, near the coastal city of Trivandrum, the signs posted on palm trees cried out: END DICTATORSHIP, DETHRONE THE QUEEN...
...Gandhi's campaign for the re-election of her government was running into trouble-heavy trouble. The four-day national ballot is scheduled to begin this Wednesday. Privately, some New Delhi pundits were betting that when the votes are counted next week, they will add up to the first national defeat for Mrs. Gandhi's Congress Party in India's 30 years of independence. Even if the pundits are wrong, the mere fact that a defeat now seems possible marks a dramatic reversal for Mrs. Gandhi-only eight weeks after she had confidently called for elections...