Word: uttar
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...stunning upset, Mrs. Gandhi lost her own carefully nurtured constituency in Uttar Pradesh by 55,000 votes to Raj Narain, a socialist buffoon whom she had trounced by 112,000 votes in 1971. "India is Indira, and Indira is India," Congress Party President D.K. Barooah used to boast. He will say it no more. Defeated in an adjoining constituency by 76,000 votes was Sanjay, in his first try for elective office. Of 542 seats in the new Lok Sabha (Lower House), Mrs. Gandhi's Congress Party won only 153 (v. 355 in the last Parliament), while Desai...
Opposition leaders were also wondering-about whether Mrs. Gandhi would abide by the election results if they went against her. They noted that paramilitary police, who had been moved to rural voting locations the week before, were suddenly regrouped. In an ominous speech in Uttar Pradesh on March 17, Mrs. Gandhi accused the opposition leaders of trying to create chaos, and the press of printing stories damaging to the national welfare. Some Janata leaders were sufficiently unnerved that they spent the next two nights at the homes of friends-just in case the police should come for them as they...
...slaughter the sacred animals. Big blocks of parliamentary seats from the Cow Belt have been crucial to all five of the Congress Party's national electoral victories since 1947. But while accompanying the candidates on a swing through the region, which includes Mrs. Gandhi's constituency in Uttar Pradesh, TIME'S New Delhi bureau chief Lawrence Malkin encountered widespread resentment of Indira's rule. "During the emergency, some local officials arbitrarily used the suspension of habeas corpus and other rights to arrest or harass whomever they chose," Malkin reported. "Stories circulate of people being picked...
...caused more resentment than the government's campaign to encourage sterilization in order to curb India's disastrous population explosion. According to one official count, this ambitious birth-control program resulted in more than 7 million vasectomies throughout India last year. In the town of Amethi in Uttar Pradesh, where Mrs. Gandhi's son Sanjay is running for a parliamentary seat, villagers told Malkin that they had taken to sleeping in the fields to avoid being picked up and sterilized, which many of them seemed to equate with castration. The town market of Gauriganj was closed...
...several former princes who could be counted on to deliver the vote in their old principalities. Sanjay's allies wound up with fewer than ten nominations-one of which, to be sure, went to Sanjay. He will be running for a seat adjoining his mother's in Uttar Pradesh -a fact that strikes many Indians as ironically in keeping with the party's electoral symbol, a cow and a calf. In this case, mother and son are yoked together in what seems, more and more, to be the political campaign of their lives...