POLITICS
Of Indira Gandhi
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In June 1975 Mrs. Gandhi took the unprecedented but constitutional step of jailing her opponents under emergency provisions of the constitution after she had been convicted in the Allahabad High Court of two charges of electoral impropriety. The so-called Emergency lasted until March 1977, when lower castes and minorities deserted the New Congress in a national election and it was defeated by a coalition of parties known as the Janata Morcha. Factionalism among the Janata partners and their inability to succeed in bringing Mrs. Gandhi to trial (despite her arrest and several Janata attempts to build a legal case against her) resulted in the defeat of the Janata government in 1979 elections and the return of Mrs. Gandhi's Congress-I to a dominant position in Indian politics.
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