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...speakers generally echo the line of Jayaprakash Narayan, 74, the respected conscience of the opposition, who notes that this may be India's "last chance to vote for democracy." Opposition campaigners are careful to attack Mrs. Gandhi with ridicule and sarcasm rather than abuse. When supporters of Jagjivan Ram at one rally shouted "Death to Indira!" the leader of India's Untouchables rebuked them by saying, "I wish Mrs. Gandhi a long life so she can see how the next Prime Minister runs the country...
Aside from Narayan, the opposition's most influential figures are two veteran politicians, each of whom has long aspired to be Prime Minister: Morarji Desai, 81, and Jagjivan Ram, 68. Desai left the ruling party in 1969 after Mrs. Gandhi fired him as Finance Minister. A teetotaling vegetarian who rises at 3 or 4 a.m. and works at his spinning wheel as a Gandhian duty, Desai has been barnstorming the country with a simple message: Mrs. Gandhi's emergency has introduced a "climate of fear," and if she wins again, she will reimpose the full force...
Fear Psychosis. The ease with which the opposition could stage such a large rally, the first since June 1975, may have surprised Mrs. Gandhi. But what really shocked her was the unexpected resignation of her Food and Agriculture Minister, Jagjivan Ram, 68, from both the Cabinet and the Congress Party. As the acknowledged leader of India's 85 million Untouchables, or harijans (children of God), and a Cabinet member since 1947, Ram was one of Mrs. Gandhi's most powerful colleagues. Though he had remained loyal to her throughout the emergency, Ram declared last week that Indians were...
...JAGJIVAN RAM--A popular minister of agriculture, Ram resigned from Gandhi's cabinet last week in protest over the continuation of some aspects of "emergency" rule. Ram, an untouchable, is likely to bring a large bloc of votes from that caste into the Janata camp...
...chances for the Janata Party to even approach majority status are slim, but the party moved a step closer to challenging Congress rule last week when a powerful political leader, Agriculture Minister Jagjivan Ram, quit the cabinet and joined the party's ranks...