Word: maneka
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...local election into chaos by persuading 84 people to join him in running as independent candidates. Having somehow been appeased, however, the malcontent withdrew from the race and the 84 others followed his example. And in the impoverished northern backwater of Amethi, where Prime Minister Gandhi was pitted against Maneka Gandhi, the widow of his younger brother Sanjay, sleepy villages came alive with Rajiv buttons, Rajiv banners, Rajiv posters and Rajiv hats. YOU LOOK AFTER THE COUNTRY, RAJIV, advised a sign on a mud- brick wall. WE'LL LOOK AFTER AMETHI...
...place in the oak-paneled Prime Minister's office. His first official act was to assure his fellow citizens, via nationwide radio and television, that he would honor his mother's democratic, nonaligned policies. Rajiv then confidently called parliamentary elections for Dec. 24. One opposition candidate: Maneka Gandhi, 28, the widow of his younger brother Sanjay. The elections will be held in all states but Assam, where disputes over the voting rights of recent immigrants have erupted, and Punjab, which has been the scene of civil unrest...
...succession was by no means over. Into the political arena stepped Sanjay's rebellious Sikh widow Maneka, a onetime model who had won Sanjay's hand when she was only 18. Maneka's strongest political credentials seemed to consist of her illustrious name and her acquired lineage...
...after Indira expelled her from the house they had long shared because of her political activities, the family firm began to dissolve into a family feud. Maneka set up her own party, known as the National Sanjay Platform, and her camp began talking of Maneka's son by Sanjay, Feroze Veruna, as a future candidate for Prime Minister. The boy is, to be sure, only five years old, but he enjoys what may be the most powerful political qualifications in India: the name of Gandhi and the ancestry of Nehru...
...Maneka's candidacy will force former Airline Pilot Rajiv, 38, who now holds the Amethi seat, into a fight for his political life. Although some experts believe Maneka can beat him, few see her as a threat to the Prime Minister in national elections, which Mrs. Gandhi is expected to hold within 15 months. In her new role, though, Maneka is sure to prove an ever sharper irritant to the Prime Minister...