Word: rashtriya
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Maneka has named her new party Rashtriya Sanjay Manch (National Sanjay Platform) in honor of her husband, who died in a 1980 plane crash. Over the past six months, Maneka claims, her movement has attracted 800,000 members, some of them disillusioned supporters of Indira's Congress (I) Party. Its charter: to work toward a democratic socialist state based on the ideals set forth by Mahatma Gandhi, who led the fight for India's independence (and to whom the currently feuding family is not related). Says an Indian newspaper editor: "One wonders which Gandhi she's talking...