INDIA: OPPOSITION PARTY OPENS ELECTION CAMPAIGN AT WOMEN'S RALLY AGAINST INFLATION

Record ID: 214886

  • Title: INDIA: OPPOSITION PARTY OPENS ELECTION CAMPAIGN AT WOMEN'S RALLY AGAINST INFLATION
  • Date: 19th October 1989
  • Summary: NEW DELHI, INDIA (OCTOBER 18, 1989) 1. SV AND CUS WOMEN CHANTING AND MARCHING WITH BANNERS AND FLAGS (4 SHOTS) 0.18 2. LV POLICE CORDON ACROSS ROAD 0.21 3. GV AND SVS BJP PRESIDENT MADAN LAL KHURANA ADDRESSING WOMEN SEATED AT RALLY (4 SHOTS) 0.36 4. SV AND CUS PEOPLE MAKING PURCHASES IN SHOPS (4 SHOTS) 0.57 5. CU SHOPPER COMMENTING (ENGLISH SOT) 0.57 6. SVS AND C
  • Embargoed: 3rd November 1989 12:00
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  • Location: NEW DELHI, INDIA
  • Country: India
  • Topics: General
  • Reuters ID: LVA281NEMVB8AZCAT4BKARUBDMTH
  • Story Text: NEW DELHI, INDIA

    The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) opened its election campaign New Delhi on Wednesday at a women's rally against inflation.

    Hundreds of housewives, demonstrating against what political speakers called soaring prices for food and home essentials, carried BJP flags and shouted anti-government slogans.

    Madan Lal Khurana, Delhi state BJP president, and Vijay Raje Scinda, BJP vice-president, promised the women they would try to control prices should their party win next month's lower house election.

    Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi surprised the country on Tuesday by deciding that India's 500 million voters would elect a new lower house of parliament on November 22 and 24, six weeks earlier than necessary.

    <strong>Source: REUTERS - ARUN KAPOOR</strong>
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