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...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...
...election that made Gandhi's re-emergence possible has come about as the result of a tangled political crisis that began last summer, when India's ruling Janata Party split in two. The leader of the breakaway Lok Dal faction, Charan Singh, was named Prime Minister of a shaky coalition government. But when Gandhi withdrew her party's support, parliament had to be dissolved. With Singh remaining in office temporarily as caretaker Prime Minister, a new general election was called 21/2 years ahead of schedule...
...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...
...Gandhi's chances of winning back her old seat in the Rae Bareli district have been enhanced by a split in the opposition reflecting the disarray that also prevails in India's other major political parties. Facing Gandhi are a former Maharani, Vijaya Reje Scindia, on the Janata ticket, and Mahipal Singh Shastri, representing Lok Dal. But in case of a slip-up in Rae Bareli, Gandhi has taken the precaution of running in a second constituency, in Andhra Pradesh, the only one of India's states that Gandhi's party now rules...
...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...