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...after nearly 62 years as an independent nation, India is still not getting enough real change from its exercise of democracy. Indira Gandhi ran on the slogan "Garibi Hatao" (Abolish Poverty) in 1971. Her Congress Party, led by her daughter-in-law Sonia and grandson Rahul, is promising the same thing 38 years later, though less poetically ("Inclusive Growth"). And yet in Rae Bareli and Amethi, the two constituencies that the Gandhi family has represented almost without interruption, literacy is below the national average, less than 40% of villages have electricity and most of the roads are unpaved. The Congress...
...chief minister raised it to 1.5 million, presumably to please Sanjay. Some 700,000 operations were actually performed, a phenomenal increase over the previous year's total of 129,000. Villagers told bitter jokes against Mrs. Gandhi, one of them based on her 1971 election slogan, GARIBI HATAO (abolish poverty). The new slogan: INDIRA HATAO, INDRI BACHAO (abolish Indira and save your penis...
...year ahead of schedule, she called for a general election, then campaigned on the populist Hindi slogan Garibi hatao ("Abolish poverty"). The result: the New Congress Party won two-thirds of the seats in the Lok Sabha, or lower house of the Parliament...
...demand of the radicals is that the government create by next year 500,000 new jobs for educated unemployed Indians. In support of the demand, one delegate reminded party members that while the party campaigned on the slogan Garibi hatao (erase poverty), there remain considerable numbers of Indians who are undernourished, unable to afford medical treatment, and who do not have homes. Mrs. Gandhi agreed, but remarked that banishing poverty was "not a thing for which one can specify a definite date." She also called for an India free of communal hostilities, economic exploitation and backwardness. These words have been...
...election was indeed a personal triumph for India's Prime Minister. A year ago, she led her splintered party to victory in parliamentary elections under the campaign slogan "Garibi hatao" (Erase poverty), but failed to gain control of several key state governments. Having taken 70% of the states' assembly seats last week, the New Congress Party will now govern 17 of India's 21 states...