XII
The Rajiv Gandhi Era
On New Year’s eve, Rajiv Gandhi was sworn in as Prime Minister by the President Zail Singh – for the second time in two months. …. On October 31, a fateful day of shock and grief, he took over as Prime Minister in a depressing atmosphere. … But now the prize was his – in his own right, earned in a national contest.
—K. K. Katyal, Frontline, Volume 1, No. 3
The Congress (I), in October 1984, was indeed a pale shadow of its own self in January 1980. We did see, in the previous chapter, that the party had lost state assembly elections in Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka; the trouble in Punjab and Assam; the opposition parties gathering together and that this time, it was happening with a new set of leaders, representing ...
Get India Since Independence now with the O’Reilly learning platform.
O’Reilly members experience books, live events, courses curated by job role, and more from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers.
