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Best chances for the opposition is in the state assemblies (see map). In Rajasthan, the Swatantra and Jana Sangh could topple the Congress leadership, and in West Bengal a leftist front could overthrow Congress. In the Punjab a Sikh separate language party threatens Congress for control of the Assembly. In Mysore, Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh and Bihar, Congress may lose some seats. In Parliament its victory is beyond question, though the opposition parties may win as many as 200 of the 494 seats...
India's leftists accuse Swatantra of be ing "feudal'' and "socially backward" because it is supported by a clutch of princes and princesses, most notable of whom is the beauteous Maharani of Jaipur, who is Swatantra Party boss in Rajasthan (TIME, Nov. 10). Ignored is the fact that there are more princes and zamindars (feudal landlords) in Congress than in the Swatantra. Despite the cry that Swatantra is the "millionaires' party," C.R. has been generally unsuccessful in attracting financial support from India's richest corporations. Right-wing businessmen instead contribute generously to Congress, for obvious...
...turbaned and mustached peasants of northwest India's Rajasthan state, it was a taste of old times. Through their villages, in a 1948 Buick that scattered peacocks, startled bullocks and cloaked the neem trees with dust as it sped along, came the Maharani Gayatri Devi, her bobbed brown hair dipping over one eye and her lithe figure wrapped in a peppermint chiffon sari. With the homage they and their forefathers had always displayed to a maharajah's wife, the villagers touched foreheads to the dust, tossed marigold garlands and waved incense. Cried the crowds: "Come...
...that point the maharani usually brakes her automobile, climbs out of the driver's seat and makes an unregal speech to her onetime subjects. In India's upcoming February election, the Maharani of Jaipur, 41, is running for a parliamentary seat from Rajasthan state, and not in the 14 years of Indian independence has there appeared a candidate with her aura and appeal: she is rich, beautiful, intelligent, and a first-rate politician...
Uncomfortably aware of the beautiful maharani's impact, Nehru's Congress Party has decided to match her with a powerful opponent: Rajasthan's Revenue Minister Damodar Vyas. But not even Vyas seems likely to beat her personal appeal. At a rally last week in Malpura, Vyas' home town, a crowd of 5,000 paraded through the town crying "Long Live Our Maharani," paused outside Vyas' house to shout insults; elsewhere, village poets hymned the maharani. She is grimly determined to win, but at the moment her major campaign concern is the garlands and flower petals...