Word: jagjivan
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...Gandhi had delivered her most crushing blow to Jagjivan Ram's Janata Party, which had emerged triumphant in the 1977 election. Though Janata had split into two factions last summer, pundits favored Ram to become Prime Minister as head of a coalition government. Ram was re-elected to Parliament last week, but his party picked up only 31 seats, compared with 295 in 1977. Particularly mortifying to Ram, an Untouchable, was the fact that the majority of his 85 million fellow harijans had voted for the party of Mrs. Gandhi, an upper-class Brahmin...
...national level, Gandhi's principal competitor for power is Jagjivan Ram, 71, the leader of the Janata Party, which the polls indicate is running a close second to Gandhi's Congress Party...
Across the Indian subcontinent, the people whom Mohandas Gandhi once lovingly called harijans (children of God) began to find their voices. The 85 million harijans, or Untouchables, who are the lowest in the rigid Hindu caste system, had thought for a brief moment last week that durable Jagjivan Ram, 71, the widely acknowledged leader of India's politically potent harijans, was soon to be Prime Minister. It was not to be. Their hopes were dashed by a bitter impasse in India's parliamentary system that culminated in an unprecedented constitutional crisis...
...week's end, Desai resigned as head of the Janata Party, saying that he was withdrawing from politics. He was replaced by Jagjivan Ram, who served as Defense Minister and Deputy Prime Minister in Desai's government...
...Congress Party's evident unpopularity made the situation ripe for government members like Minister of Agriculture Jagjivan Ram to defect and form their own parties. Moreover, for the first time in India's history the Opposition united against the Congress. Four major parties combined to form the Janata (People's) party: the Jan Sangh, the Bharatiya Lok Dal (BLD), the opposition 'Old' Congress, and the Socialist party. The Janata campaigned in coalition with Jagjivan Ram's Congress for Democracy party (CFD) and other smaller regional parties. Thus the opposition vote did not split, and the election became a two-party...