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Indira Gandhi after twenty years
The Indian magazine The Week (Nov.7 issue) polled 1,274 people in ten cities, and found that Indira Gandhi remains a political idol.
69 percent of the people wish they could vote for her today.
54 percent believe that she would go to war with Pakistan over Kashmir.
47 percent approve of "The Emergency," her suspension of civil liberties; only 38 percent oppose it.
67 percent believe that the Nehru-Gandhi family should be in politics.
Indira's two greatest achievements are seen as victory in the 1971 Indo-Pak war and nationalizing the banking system.
Here is my previous post entitled "Are Indian Voters Irrational?"
My question: Does Karl Rove understand Indian politics better than we think?
Posted by Tyler Cowen on November 5, 2004 at 08:23 PM in Political Science | Permalink
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