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...Gone was Indira Gandhi, after eleven years as Prime Minister. Gone also was her abrasive and ambitious Sanjay 30, whom she had been grooming to carry on the tradition of the House Nehru. Gone was the stranglehold of the Indian National Congress, one of the century's great political movements and the ruling party in India for the past 30 years. Gone was the state of emergency of and the common wisdom that India was drifting ever closer to dictatorship...
...stunning upset, Mrs. Gandhi lost her own carefully nurtured constituency in Uttar Pradesh by 55,000 votes to Raj Narain, a socialist buffoon whom she had trounced by 112,000 votes in 1971. "India is Indira, and Indira is India," Congress Party President D.K. Barooah used to boast. He will say it no more. Defeated in an adjoining constituency by 76,000 votes was Sanjay, in his first try for elective office. Of 542 seats in the new Lok Sabha (Lower House), Mrs. Gandhi's Congress Party won only 153 (v. 355 in the last Parliament), while Desai...
...election result shows that dictatorship cannot acquire any roots in this country." Declared M.C. Sachdeva, 27 a government clerk. "To my generation, freedom began today, not in 1947." The Janata victory, added a fire brigade employe "has come mythical Lord Rama descending to earth to destroy the evil demon Indira...
...Indira's major newspapers and magazines, most of which had been harassed into silence by censorship and government found their voices again. The Time of India called the election "a second liberation struggle" and added "Never before has the country been through such hell." Observed the Statesman, which had courageously criticized emergency excesses: "We Indians can hold our heads a little higher today." The Indian Express which had been brought to the verge of bankruptcy by a variety of governmental dirty tricks, said, "Indian democracy will never again be the same . . .No future government however large its majority...
...leaders predicted a landslide by their party, but many realized in the closing days of the campaign that Congress was in trouble. Opposition rallies 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...