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From: debray@sbcs.UUCP (Saumya Debray)
Newsgroups: net.flame
Subject: Re: Look at the facts (factual quibble)
Message-ID: <528@sbcs.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 19-Nov-83 13:54:06 EST
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Posted: Sat Nov 19 13:54:06 1983
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Look at the facts yourself, ihuxl!esj:

		>Indira Ghandi [sic] declared martial law awhile back
		>didn't she?

As a matter of fact, she didn't: what she DID do was to dissolve the
state government of one of India's 22 states, Punjab, and institute
"President's Rule", where the central govt. directly makes the decisions.
According to the Indian constitution, the Prime Minister may declare
President's Rule in a state if the law & order situation deteriorates to
a point where local institutions aren't in control any more. This can
last for a few months at most (I forget how many), after which she is
constitutionally REQUIRED to hold elections in that state. This has been
done in some state or other on more than one occasion since India's
independence, and India is hardly under military rule!

Btw: her name's spelt G-a-n-d-h-i.

Saumya Debray
SUNY at Stony Brook
...philabs!sbcs!debray

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