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Janury 9 Mrs. lridijra Gandhi-s triumphant returjn to power in India has stunned many political pundits. So fair put ofJ415 seats declared in the 544 - seat ICok Sabhai, 3.05 have been iwon by Congress (Indira). Thus the second time in three years! the world's most populous democracy had staged a peaceful revolution at the ballot box. The Janata party headed*by Jagjivan Ranj has only 26 seats compared to 297 in 1977 ami the Bharatiya lok Dal or Janata : Secular of Charan Singh has 38 seats. The Communists emerged strong in West Bengal and Kerala as anticipate^.
Congress (1) bag&e.d 28of 29 seats in Gujarat and 39 out of 48 seats in Maharastra. : � ' \
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Sanjay Gandhi ;(33) won his^seat in Uttar Pradesh by more than 128.000 votes. Mrs. Gandhi Jiai promised that hfr son would not be included in the Cabinet. ;
"You can't fool the people all the time** the victorious 62-year old Indira commented.. She was elected from two constituencies, from Rae Barcli and Medak in the South. Before f single ballot was counted Indira said that the party had won ''emjrely on my name.''
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tiled because of t^e jaw aiid order problem in {he state..
The electorate had also swelled to 361.7 million as against 321.1. million in 1^77 and 241.1 million
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New Delhi: There has beeri no lection fever during the current general elections in India. Nor was there, any 'wave' that sWurig the votes substantially in favour of one party or^he other. ; � �
The main political partiesin the No'�doubt; as usuil, the wails �\- field were {he Janata Party, the every street �.'corner'were covered . Lok Dal-Cdngress(U) combine with election posters and prom- .(which held the caretaker gover-:-ises heralding the clections, -f The nment) the pongress(I). the Com i-eal �fever' was afnong the can- munist Parjy (Marxist). (RPM) didates and the parties, paiiic-t^ommuni^ Party of lnd ulariy for whom /the success at the and the regional parties like the polls meant much5 more than a Akali Dal ^n Punjab; the DMK seat in the lok Sabha or a berth in and AIDMK in Tamil Nadu, the the new government. It was the parallel Congress in Maharash-' question ��.of their ; personal Vsur- tra; : the; Kerala Congress in vival. '�;".!� Kerala, and the National Confer-
ence? of J & K. There were a The people seemed to have lost large number of Independents . their faith in the politicians ^0^^'
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tions. Their experience of the past six Lok Sabha elections exposed the wjde) gap between election promises! and performance. There has-been considerable increase in the number of political parties stnee Itulepend-ince, splinter groups of tne same1 old political leadership, each with
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What influenced the ejections were: caste, creed or religious groups for which there were no dearth in the country viz Brahmins, backward classes, harfrans; muslims, rajpats.! bhumihars. jats. gujars, tvagis, minority .communities', rajas, talukdarjs and
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Obsessed with defections and horse-trading, � the enlightened voters decided to choose tbeir candidates on the basis of their moral fibre miner than party affiliations.
Voter* and PmrtKee .
There were 4576 candidates (twice the number in the; 1977 elections) in the field of* which 89" were women Toe the 529 Lok Sabha seats. In ij constituencies � im .'Assam, no inotninatid^sw�rc :
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for the primemmistership; viz Charan Singh of the Lok Dal from J Jagjivan Ram of the Janata Party Baghpat in Uttar Pradesh and Among the important candidates j (who fought from his home cons- ; Mrs. Indira Gandhi of the Con--in the fray were three aspirants , tituency, Sasarara- in Bihar), [ gress (1) from Rae Bareli in Uttar
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constituencies; both from Rae Bareli and from Medak in the Telengana area of Andhra Pradesh.
j Mrs. Shakundala Devi, who is known throughout the world as �ihe-.-4-*human computer" filed her nomination from both Bombay South and Medak in A.P..
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