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...trip to his parliamentary constituency in Uttar Pradesh, Rajiv winced as old women fell to the ground at his feet and ragged, barefoot young men chanted, "You are the hope of India?Rajiv, Rajiv, Rajiv...
Hospital technicians worked for five hours to prepare Sanjay's disfigured body for visitation. Barricades were erected hastily at the Prime Minister's residence as thousands of mourners, many of them from Sanjay's home constituency in Uttar Pradesh, came to pay their respects, weep, and shower rose petals on the bier, which was surrounded by huge blocks of ice to prevent deterioration of the body. Tents were put up in front of the house to protect the throngs from the 100° temperatures. Water wagons arrived; so did the fruit and nut sellers, the garland threaders...
...Gandhi's triumph virtually wiped out her Congress Party's two major contenders: neither the Janata nor the Lok Dal party gained the requisite 54 seats to qualify for recognition as the official opposition. In her own home state of Uttar Pradesh, where Mrs. Gandhi had been ignominiously turned out of her parliamentary seat in the 1977 elections, she won 56% of the vote in the constituency of Rae Bareli. She also won in a second constituency, in Andhra Pradesh, capturing 66% of the vote...
...been held responsible for many of the excesses of the emergency rule. Out of prison on appeal of a three-year sentence for crimes connected with abuses of power, Sanjay won his first parliamentary seat with a plurality of more than 100,000 votes in an Uttar Pradesh district...
...villagers of Rae Bareli in the state of Uttar Pradesh, the vigorous woman in the beige sari electioneering under a roadside arbor was a haunting apparition from India's political past. Raising an orange-colored bullhorn, she repeated her blunt and simple slogan: "Banish poverty!" Seizing upon the issue of most urgent concern to her peasant audience-the high price of onions -she promised not only to fight inflation but to bring the bounty of the welfare state closer to home. "I don't know whether you've had any government aid here," she shouted grandly...