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- <title>
- Feb. 06, 1989: World Notes:India
- </title>
- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1989
- Feb. 06, 1989 Armed America
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- WORLD, Page 49
- World Notes
- INDIA
- Rajiv's Stinging Setback
- </hdr><body>
- <p> The elections in Tamil Nadu, one of India's most populous
- states, looked like a perfect opportunity for Prime Minister
- Rajiv Gandhi to reverse the failing fortunes of his ruling
- Congress (I) Party. The opposition was badly split, and a secret
- poll showed Congress vying for the lead. Smelling victory,
- Gandhi visited the state four times in three weeks.
- </p>
- <p> But when the returns came in last week, the results were
- calamitous for Congress, which won only 26 of 232 seats in the
- state assembly. Moreover, the victor, Muthuvel Karunanidhi, was
- aligned with the National Front, a coalition of parties formed
- to defeat Gandhi in the national elections to be held later this
- year. Meanwhile, the Congress chief minister of another state,
- Arjun Singh, resigned over charges that he profited from funds
- misappropriated from a lottery held to benefit child-welfare
- programs. Observed New Delhi's Statesman: "Things are falling
- apart for Mr. Gandhi."
- </p>
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- </body></article>
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