Editing Indira Gandhi (section)

=== In opposition and return to power ===
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Since Indira Gandhi had lost her seat in the election, the defeated Congress party appointed [[Yashwantrao Chavan]] as their parliamentary party leader. Soon afterwards, the Congress party split again with Gandhi floating her own Congress faction called Congress(I) where I stood for Indira. She won a by-election in the [[Chikmagalur (Lok Sabha constituency)|Chikmagalur Constituency]] and took a seat in the Lok Sabha in November 1978<ref>{{cite news|last1=Maramkal|first1=M-B|title=Chikmagalur remembers Indira Gandhi|url=http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/mysuru/Chikmagalur-remembers-Indira-Gandhi/articleshow/26064352.cms|issue=20 November|newspaper=[[Times of India]]|date=2013|access-date=9 January 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150630051741/http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/mysuru/Chikmagalur-remembers-Indira-Gandhi/articleshow/26064352.cms|archive-date=30 June 2015|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Mrs. Gandhi is Jeered|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1314&dat=19781121&id=nEpOAAAAIBAJ&pg=4709,2645853|website=[[The Spokesman-Review]]|access-date=9 April 2017|date=21 November 1978}}</ref> after the Janata Party's attempts to have [[Kannada]] matinee idol [[Dr. Rajkumar|Rajkumar]] run against her failed when he refused to contest the election saying he wanted to remain apolitical.<ref>{{cite news | url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/bengaluru/how-fernandes-ran-a-high-voltage-campaign-for-chikkamagaluru-bypoll/articleshow/67745513.cms | title=How Fernandes ran a high-voltage campaign for Chikkamagaluru bypoll | website=[[Times of India]] | date=30 January 2019 | access-date=17 February 2019 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190217201055/https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/bengaluru/how-fernandes-ran-a-high-voltage-campaign-for-chikkamagaluru-bypoll/articleshow/67745513.cms | archive-date=17 February 2019 | url-status=live }}</ref> However, the Janata government's home minister, Charan Singh, ordered her arrest along with Sanjay Gandhi on several charges, none of which would be easy to prove in an Indian court. The arrest meant that Gandhi was automatically expelled from Parliament. The allegations included that she "had planned or thought of killing all opposition leaders in jail during the Emergency".<ref>[[Malhotra, Inder]]. ''Indira Gandhi''. New York: [[Coronet Books]], 1991.</ref> However, the strategy backfired disastrously. In response to her arrest, Gandhi's [[Indian Airlines Flight 410|supporters hijacked]] an [[Indian Airlines]] jet and demanded her immediate release.<ref>{{cite news | url=http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Tale-of-two-hijackers-One-is-Congress-candidate-other-most-wanted/articleshow/33156540.cms | title=Tale of two hijackers: One is Congress candidate, other most wanted | website=[[Times of India]] | date=3 April 2014 | access-date=13 June 2017 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171010085146/https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Tale-of-two-hijackers-One-is-Congress-candidate-other-most-wanted/articleshow/33156540.cms | archive-date=10 October 2017 | url-status=live }}</ref> Her arrest and long-running trial gained her sympathy from many people. The Janata coalition was only united by its hatred of Gandhi (or "that woman" as some called her). The party included right wing [[Hindu]] Nationalists, Socialists, and former Congress party members. With so little in common, the Morarji Desai government was bogged down by infighting. In 1979, the government began to unravel over the issue of the dual loyalties of some members to Janata and the [[Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh]] (RSS)—the [[Hindu nationalist]],<ref name="Horowitz">{{cite book|last=Horowitz|first=Donald L.|title=The Deadly Ethnic Riot|year=2001|publisher=[[University of California Press]]|isbn=978-0-520-22447-6|page=[https://archive.org/details/deadlyethnicriot00horo/page/244 244]|url=https://archive.org/details/deadlyethnicriot00horo/page/244}}</ref><ref name="Haynes2003">{{cite book|first=Jeff|last=Haynes|title=Democracy and Political Change in the Third World|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YdWAAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA168|date=2 September 2003|publisher=[[Routledge]]|isbn=978-1-134-54184-3|pages=168–|access-date=25 September 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170423174835/https://books.google.com/books?id=YdWAAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA168|archive-date=23 April 2017|url-status=live}}</ref> [[paramilitary]]<ref name="McLeod2002">{{cite book|last=McLeod|first=John|title=The history of India|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DAwmUphO6eAC&pg=PA209|access-date=11 June 2010|year=2002|publisher=[[Greenwood Publishing Group]]|isbn=978-0-313-31459-9|pages=209–|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170424015646/https://books.google.com/books?id=DAwmUphO6eAC&pg=PA209|archive-date=24 April 2017|url-status=live}}</ref> organisation. The ambitious Union finance minister, Charan Singh, who as the Union home minister during the previous year had ordered the Gandhi's' arrests, took advantage of this and started courting Indira and Sanjay. After a significant exodus from the party to Singh's faction, Desai resigned in July 1979. Singh was appointed prime minister, by President Reddy, after Indira Gandhi and Sanjay Gandhi promised Singh that Congress (I) would support his government from outside on certain conditions.<ref name="Supporting Charan Singh">{{cite book|last1=de Mesquita|first1=Bruce Bueno|title=The Predictioneer's Game: Using the Logic of Brazen Self-Interest to See and shapte the future|publisher=[[Random House]]|location=New York|isbn=978-0-8129-7977-0|page=xxiii|url={{Google books|8BafGvdAYYEC|page=PA10|keywords=%22charan%20singh%22|text=|plainurl=yes}}|year=2010}}</ref><ref name="Charan Singh">{{cite book|last1=Sanghvi|first1=Vijay|title=The Congress, Indira to Sonia Gandhi By|date=2006|publisher=Kalpaz|location=Delhi|isbn=978-81-7835-340-1|pages=114–122|url={{Google books|npdqD_TXucQC|page=PA7|keywords=charan|text=|plainurl=yes}}}}</ref> The conditions included dropping all charges against Indira and Sanjay. Since Singh refused to drop them, Congress (I) withdrew its support and President Reddy dissolved Parliament in August 1979.<ref>Bhargava, G. S. (2005). Star crossed India: let down by leadership. Gyan Publishing House.|PAGE=108,129,255</ref>

Before the [[1980 Indian general election|1980 elections]] Indira Gandhi approached the [[Shahi Imam]] of [[Jama Masjid, Delhi|Jama Masjid]] at the time, [[Syed Abdullah Bukhari]] and entered into an agreement with him on the basis of 10-point programme to secure the support of the [[Muslims|Muslim]] votes.<ref name="AgnihotriRay2002">{{cite book|author1=S. K. Agnihotri|author2=B. Datta Ray|title=Perspective Of Security And Development In North East India|url={{Google books|OKRiQaHWKJcC|page=PA106|keywords=|text=|plainurl=yes}}|access-date=28 June 2013|year=2002|publisher=Concept Publishing Company|isbn=978-81-8069-165-2|pages=106–}}</ref> In the elections held in January, Congress (I) under Gandhi's leadership returned to power with a landslide majority.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/january/7/newsid_2506000/2506387.stm|title=1980: Gandhi returned by landslide vote|date=7 January 1980|website=bbc.co.uk|access-date=2 January 2020|language=en-GB|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121023133601/http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/january/7/newsid_2506000/2506387.stm|archive-date=23 October 2012|url-status=live}}</ref>