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...thing, smarting under Indira's quasi-dictatorial rule, the opposition learned to work together for the first time. Said a former Cabinet member: "She has forged us together with bars of steel." Most of the country's leading opposition parties have merged into a new group, the Janata (People's) Party...
...previous elections, the Congress Party has always received between 40% and 46% of the popular vote, but maintained a parliamentary majority because the opposition was so badly split. This time the Janata Party and its allies are contesting 538 seats (out of 542), but in practically no constituency are two opposition-party candidates pitted against each other. Mrs. Gandhi's party has fielded 492 candidates and is relying on its erstwhile ally, the pro-Moscow Communist Party of India, to carry the banner in most of the other constituencies. Mrs. Gandhi is said to have been told...
...newcomer within the opposition leadership, having quit the party and the Cabinet only last month (TIME, Feb. 14). The spokesman for India's 85 million Untouchables, he is keeping his group separate from the Janata Party, although he has agreed not to field any candidates directly against it. In a jab at Mrs. Gandhi and her ambitious younger son Sanjay, 30, Ram remarked that whatever people may say about Congress Party bossism, they should remember that during the emergency, "the whole country has been ruled by 1½ bosses...
...week began with a giant political rally in Delhi, called by the four opposition groups that had quickly united as the Janata (People's) Party. On hand were 70,000 people who sat crosslegged, on the ground or on jute mats, to hear a succession of speakers denounce the government for its harsh curtailment of the nation's freedom. "You have found out what kind of people rule this country," declared Opposition Leader Morarji Desai, 80, who had been released from prison a fortnight earlier. "It is as important to keep our freedom secure from this type...
...however severe the blow to Mrs. Gandhi, Ram's departure does not necessarily spell her downfall. The Congress Party, having ruled India since 1947, is well entrenched, and Indira remains the country's most powerful-and popular-political figure Moreover, she benefits from the fact that the Janata Party, whose elements range from the right-wing Old Congress faction to the Socialists to the Hindu-first Jana Sangh, is united in almost nothing except its opposition to the existing government. Indeed, as one Janata spokesman confided to TIME'S New Delhi bureau chief, Lawrence Malkin, the call...