Word: janata
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Gandhi also flew to the southern state of Kerala, where she attributed the current problems to her predecessors. "We have communal riots, high prices, unemployment left over from the wrong policies of the Janata and Lok Dal governments," she told listeners, who bedecked her with flower garlands. "We cannot allow antisocial elements, smugglers, hoarders, profiteers to gain the upper hand as happened under Janata...
...Gandhi's triumph virtually wiped out her Congress Party's two major contenders: neither the Janata nor the Lok Dal party gained the requisite 54 seats to qualify for recognition as the official opposition. In her own home state of Uttar Pradesh, where Mrs. Gandhi had been ignominiously turned out of her parliamentary seat in the 1977 elections, she won 56% of the vote in the constituency of Rae Bareli. She also won in a second constituency, in Andhra Pradesh, capturing 66% of the vote...
...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...
Charan Singh, the caretaker Prime Minister and leader of Janata's spinoff, the Lok Dal party, fared little better. His campaign warnings that the election of Indira and Sanjay heralded a return to dictatorship were ignored. Lok Dal won only 41 seats in Parliament, including Singh's own. It seemed unlikely that the bitterly quarrelsome Lok Dal and Janata parties could repair their breach in order to form an effective opposition to Gandhi's Congress Party. An ominous prospect, however, is an alliance between the Communist parties that won a total of 37 seats in West Bengal...
...country's 361 million registered voters prepared to go to the polls on Jan. 3 and 6, pre-election pundits were betting that neither Gandhi's faction of the Congress Party nor Ram's shattered Janata Party would win a clear majority in parliament. Analysts estimated that out of the 528 parliamentary seats, the two parties could each win about 200 seats, while Lok Dal might capture about 60. In that case, Gandhi and Ram would have to scramble for new adherents among the smaller political parties to see which one might be able to form...