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Some senior journalists at The Sunday Indian have enjoyed the privilege of getting a ringside view of history unfolding. Our Executive Editor Ranjit Bhushan still has vivid memories of a chilly day after the 1984 Lok Sabha elections in Allahabad, where a crestfallen H.N. Bahuguna looked as if he had actually been ‘poll’ axed! Even seasoned pundits and journalists had not expected the outcome. The reigning superstar of Bollywood, Amitabh Bachchan, had humbled the diminutive ‘giant’ of Uttar Pradesh and Indian politics, Bahuguna, by a mind- numbing margin. Bahuguna – who had quit the Congress party – never recovered. Ironically, his daughter Rita Bahuguna now heads the decrepit, ramshackle and forlorn Congress in Uttar Pradesh. And the then ‘poster boy’ of the Congress, Amitabh, now has extremely strained relations with the party.

Even the current prime ministerial candidate of the BJP, L.K. Advani, had once narrowly escaped being engulfed by the tidal wave of Bollywood. His opponent was yet another former superstar, Rajesh Khanna, who became his rival for the New Delhi constituency in 1991. By then, Advani was already a towering giant of the rapidly growing Hindutva movement and Rajesh Khanna was someone whose glory days had long faded away. Yet, it was only by a whisker that Advani escaped a humiliating loss.

Our other Executive Editor, Sharad Gupta, has witnessed even more bizarre events in recent times. In the 2004 Lok Sabha elections, the Samajwadi Party sprang a surprise by nominating actress Jaya Prada for the prestigious Rampur seat. Her rival was the revered Begum of Rampur, Noor Bano. In a Muslim dominated locality in Rampur, Gupta waited with tens of thousands of people for hours, awaiting a glimpse of Jaya Prada. Her rally continued almost till midnight, with local cops telling Gupta that they dare not enforce the 10 PM ban on loudspeakers because it would lead to stone pelting! Of course, Jaya Prada humbled and humiliated the aristocratic Bano.


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