Yadgir assembly segment in northern Karnataka is a rare seat which had elected anti-Congress leaders for four straight elections after independence. Local folklore, therefore tells the story of 1978, when Mrs Indira Gandhi came on a chopper, waved her hands at the waiting thousands of people and flew back. This simple hand waving gesture though was enough to produce a Congress victory for the first time, that too from a totally unknown candidate.
At her peak, Indira Gandhi’s popularity was so high that her mere presence in a constituency for barely a few minutes would change the course of an election. Mind you, Indira was not a great orator, so nobody ever remembers any of her speeches other than the one she made in 1971 about “ gareebi hatao ”, so it is doubly difficult to
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As Mumbai votes, we look at how it is looking at 2 PM
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