INDIA bloc loses steam as BJP in driver's seat after Delhi poll results NEW DELHI: Just eight months after its good showing in the Lok Sabha polls, the INDIA bloc seems to be running out of steam with internal bickering and conflicting ambitions resulting in diminishing electoral returns that...
Amitabh SrivastavaUday Mahurkar
(People’s) Partyscored a landslide victory over the Congress Party, winning 295 seats in theLok Sabha(the lower chamber of India’s parliament) against 153 for the Congress; Gandhi herself lost to her Janata opponent. On January 2, 1978, she and her followers seceded and formed a new ...