Word: kerala
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...news that reached him the same day. In two of three state elections, his Congress (I) Party had suffered major setbacks at the hands of the Communist Party of India (Marxist), the strongest of the country's several Communist parties. The defeats in the states of West Bengal and Kerala seemed to highlight a growing disenchantment not only with the Congress Party but with the once highly popular Prime Minister...
...Jammu and Kashmir offered little consolation. In the past 18 months the Congress Party has lost state elections in Punjab, Assam and Mizoram. Gandhi appeared willing to live with these defeats because they temporarily quieted rebellious local ethnic and religious parties. There were, however, no such considerations in Kerala and West Bengal. Even more devastating, the loss of Kerala marked the first time Gandhi's party was out of power in all four south Indian states...
...Pope ended the week in the southernmost state of Kerala, India's Roman Catholic heartland. Here, finally, was the sort of welcome to which the Pontiff is accustomed. Some 400,000 people attended the first beatification ceremony ever in India. John Paul told the clerics in the audience that he hoped the ceremony "will give you renewed zeal for your precious vocation." This week the Pope will visit Bombay, where he is expected to mention the controversial issue that he has avoided during his stay in the world's second most populous nation: birth control...
Gandhi proved a surprisingly forceful administrator of the party bureaucracy. She weeded out a number of time servers, promoted younger officials, negotiated agreements among rival factions; she also played a key part in ousting a Communist state government in Kerala. But after a year she quit, saying that she had to devote all her energies to her father...
...Gandhi also flew to the southern state of Kerala, where she attributed the current problems to her predecessors. "We have communal riots, high prices, unemployment left over from the wrong policies of the Janata and Lok Dal governments," she told listeners, who bedecked her with flower garlands. "We cannot allow antisocial elements, smugglers, hoarders, profiteers to gain the upper hand as happened under Janata...