Word: gujarat
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...your foot in the mud that is now Morvi, you strike a body." So said Pankaj Zaveri, a survivor of the most disastrous accident ever to befall India. In the midafternoon of a torrentially rainy Saturday, the 197-ft.-high earthen Machhu dam in western India's Gujarat state suddenly burst open. The waters behind it boiled six miles down a river in the state's Saurashtra district and crashed into Morvi, a semi-industrial town of 75,000, known as "the Paris of Saurashtra" because of its many green parks and broad avenues. Mud houses were entirely...
Less than 24 hours later, Mrs. Gandhi flew to Gujarat, Desai's home state north of Bombay, and told a crowd of thousands that she would continue to "speak for the people" and "give them a lead." But Indira's triumph may yet prove a fleeting one. The magistrate's ruling will almost certainly be overturned by the High Court, and there are said to be other cases pending. At week's end the Home Minister was confiding that he fully expected to arrest Mrs. Gandhi again. But next time he had better strike hard...
...takeover leaves only one of India's 22 state governments, Gujarat, as an opposition stronghold. Until recently Mrs. Gandhi had cited opposition party rule in Gujarat and Tamil Nadu as proof that India was still democratic...
That pretense now seems to have been abandoned, and Gujarat's days as a bastion of independence may be numbered...
...then it is very democratic. If it is done here, then it is terrible, it is the death of democracy. Would you tolerate a situation in America where the opposition took it on themselves to catch hold of the elected members of the assembly, as they did in Gujarat, and beat them up until they resigned, and burn down their houses? Did the British tolerate the building up of violence in Northern Ireland? They declared an emergency, they sent their troops in there. Did the Americans ever say that democracy has died in Britain...