![]() ![]() ![]() I inquired from Granville Austin (“Red” Austin) in Washington, (alas he is no more) and he very kindly looked into the papers in the Library of Congress, but found nothing. In times of need I used to rely on an old friend of mine (and of India’s) who was a storehouse of information about those troubled times. Even the then Leader of the Opposition, L K Advani (who had been detained in jail during the Emergency), told me that he had no recollection of the president of the United States prompting Indira Gandhi to hold elections in March 1977. I then went back to India but drew a blank. ![]() Justice Ruth Ginsberg, presiding at our table, was extremely interested in this tidbit of information and asked me whether I could lay my hands on any authenticated document to support this recollection of mine. I repeated this story at a luncheon meeting with the judges of the Supreme Court of the United States (at one of the functions of the Indo-US Legal Forum in Washington in 1995). ![]()
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