Word: janata
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...abandoned national politics in 1954 to devote the next 20 years to sarvodaya, a movement that called for a new social order free of economic exploitation. Narayan returned to the political forefront in 1974, to lead the opposition to Prime Minister Indira Gandhi and help form the Janata Front, which eventually defeated her in the 1977 elections...
...marked an astonishing change in political fortunes. Earlier this summer Mrs. Gandhi was still confined to political oblivion, a disgraced leader with no seat in Parliament and still under investigation for alleged illegal acts committed during the emergency rule she imposed in 1975-77 as Prime Minister. After the Janata Party disintegrated last month, and in the absence of any party with a clear-cut majority, her faction, Congress (I) (for Indira), had become essential for the survival of any government. Suddenly Mrs. Gandhi was once again at the commanding heights of Indian politics...
...July in order to force the resignation of Desai, she then deserted Charan Singh to force his resignation less than a month later. Ram, who has been in every Cabinet since independence, stood by Mrs. Gandhi throughout the Emergency, but deserted her at the last moment to help the Janata Party win the 1977 election. Last week she took her revenge by denying her old colleague the support that would have made him Prime Minister. It was ruthless politics, but as her aunt Mrs. Vijayalakshmi Pandit once observed of her niece in office, "She was the only...
...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...
Singh will head the first coalition government in India's postcolonial years. His unstable support consists of his own faction of the multiparty Janata group that supported Desai until recently, plus two rival branches of the Congress Party, one of which is headed by former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi. So precarious is this coalition that Reddy, in his letter asking Singh to form a government, requested that the new Prime Minister seek a vote of confidence in the lower house "at the earliest possible opportunity...