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...case grew out of Mrs. Gandhi's campaign four years ago for her parliamentary seat in Rae Bareli, her home district, in the poverty-stricken state of Uttar Pradesh, 300 miles southeast of New Delhi. She won a landslide victory -183,000 votes to 71,000 for her opponent, socialist Raj Narain. Barely a month after the election, Narain, 58, an old and bitter foe of Mrs. Gandhi and her late father, Jawaharlal Nehru, went to court and charged that Mrs. Gandhi and her staff, in violation of India's equivalent of the U.S.'s Hatch...
...calf) in an illicit religious appeal for votes. But he ruled that she had allowed Yashpal Kapoor, a key political aide, to campaign for her prior to quitting his government post. Justice Sinha, who is regarded as a staunchly non-political jurist, also found that the Uttar Pradesh state government had illegally assisted her by improving roads, erecting platforms and providing special crowd protection...
...that in fact he helped organize her campaign as early as Jan. 7. As for the second charge, Mrs. Gandhi testified that the state's deployment of extra police was necessary for security reasons. The other arrangements, she added last week, were organized by the opposition government in Uttar Pradesh at the time and not by her office or the central government...
Lack of Concern. Shitala's scourge has been particularly felt in the states of Orissa, Madhya Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal and Assam. Yet no where has the goddess lashed harder than in Bihar. With 70,393 reported cases, that state accounts for 60% of the world's current total of known smallpox victims...
...Uttar Pradesh, India's most populous state, the outlook is hardly brighter. The 300-megawatt Rihand dam has been closed by water shortages; last month, power was cut by 40% throughout the state. Electric steel furnaces until last week were allowed no power at all and had to shut down completely. In the city of Ghaziabad, other industries are allowed power to operate only between 10 p.m. and 6 a.m. That move saves power for domestic and office use during the day, but it automatically idles 15% of the factory work force of 70,000, since women are forbidden...