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Dressed in the saffron robes of a holy man, a role he played in many of his 300 films, Actor-Turned-Politician N.T. Rama Rao, 61, was mobbed by reporters and supporters when he arrived last week in New Delhi, India's capital. Though still recuperating from a recent heart bypass operation, Rama Rao had made the two-hour flight from his home state of Andhra Pradesh to protest his sudden ouster a few days earlier as chief minister, the state's top elected official. Rama Rao had been swept into that office only last year, when...
...state of emergency that she had proclaimed. This time the issues are more diffuse. Opposition parties charge that the Congress leadership has become corrupt and insensitive to the public welfare. In addition, there are powerful local controversies. In Andhra Pradesh, for instance, the movie star turned politician N.T. Rama Rao won a stunning victory for his new Telugu Desam party, advocating increased powers for the state's Telugu majority. In Delhi, many Sikhs vowed to boycott last weekend's elections, thereby showing their support for the movement that is advocating greater autonomy for the rich agricultural state...
...clear that Mrs. Gandhi had lost - badly. Nearly everywhere, Congress (I)'s candidates were trailing well behind opposition party members. In Andhra Pradesh, they were routed by followers of a new political party, founded last March by one of India's top movie stars, N.T. Rama Rao, 60. N.T.R., as he is known, campaigned from the back of a renovated 40-year-old Chevrolet, and beneath giant copies of his old movie posters, in favor of greater local autonomy. Never attacking Mrs. Gandhi by name, N.T.R. delivered a simple message: "India's leaders in their pursuit...
...caravan of high-level visitors signaled the importance of India's role in shaping a cohesive regional response to the Afghanistan crisis. In the softest possible language, New Delhi had described Moscow's intervention as unjustified and "expressed the hope," as Foreign Minister P.V. Narasimha Rao put it, that the Soviets would withdraw. Mrs. Gandhi's government, however, was equally jittery about the possible creation of a U.S.-Pakistan-China axis, which could push India into an overly close relationship with the Soviet Union, with which it already has a friendship treaty...
...Prabhakar Rao, assistant professor of Mathematics...