Mid-term poll test for Gandhi
NZPA-Reuter New Delhi How strongly the Indian Prime Minister (Mrs Indira Gandhi) is maintaining her dominant position in Indian politics will become known today when results start coming in from yesterday's regional elections. More than 60 per cent of a 57 million electorate cast their votes in elections for four state assemblies and seven central Parliament seats.
Although Mrs Gandhi will retain her commanding national Parliamentary majority whatever the outcome, the elections are being regarded as a mid-term test of her popularity. The elections were largely
free from violence, apart from the death of a 12-year-old boy in a bomb explosion in Calcutta and clashes in the northern state of Haryana.
Although most results are not expected until tomorrow, trends in voting were expected to become known by today. The ruling Left Front in West Bengal state is expected to win a second term of office, and Mrs Gandhi’s Congress Party could also be defeated by the Marxists in southern Kerala state.
She is more confident of victories in the northern states of Himachal Pradesh and Haryana where her party has been in power.
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