Word: uttar
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...once impregnable Congress stronghold in Gujarat on India's west coast, Minocher Rustom Masani, 57, general secretary of the right-wing Swatantra Party, downed a Congress nominee by an impressive majority of 14,000 votes. To the north in Uttar Pradesh, Socialist Dr. Ram Manohar Lohia, who took his defeat at the hands of Nehru himself in last year's election, trounced a former government Information Minister. Worst slap of all came in another Uttar Pradesh constituency, where victory came to lean, acerbic Independent J. B. Kripalani, 76, the veteran Congress politician who had left the party...
...election's most far-reaching result was its resounding personal vindication of Nehru and Krishna Menon. Sure of his own Uttar Pradesh constituency (he romped home with a better than two-to-one lead over Socialist Leader Dr. Ram Manohar Lohia), Nehru throughout the campaign focused most of his efforts on Krishna Menon's fight for North Bombay. Nehru castigated Swatantra and right-wing Congress members, but only mildly criticized the Communist Party, which virtually took over Menon's campaign against J. B. Kripalani, the conservative coalition candidate who accused India's Defense Minister of twisting...
...Elections are not a good thing, because they bring out the worst in us," says India's Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru, and in the final days of the campaign, there was plenty of evidence to support him. In Uttar Pradesh, four people were shot dead in riots; in Kashmir, candidates opposed to the government claimed they were kidnaped by police. In Jaipur, where the Maharani of Jaipur was running against the Congress Party machine under her maiden name. Gayatri Devi, local politicos found another Gayatri Devi to run against her as an independent in order to split her vote...
...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...
...Even in its latest edition, Guinness is out of date. At last report, Masudiya Din had moved to Uttar Pradesh, and his mustache had grown until it stretched 8½ft. from...