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Wives turn campaign for a Delhi seat into star- wars
NEW DEUII. June 7: Two fading superstars of Indian cinema are locked in a shrill, no-holds-barred campaign for the prestigious Delhi parliamentary scat in ope of 21 byelections to be held across India on Monday, reports AFP.
Rajesh Khanna, the heart-throb of millions in the 1960s and 1970s, an Sahtrugnn Sinha, a successful villain-turned hero of the same period, have been on a hectic campaign trail for almost a month.
Khanna, 48. is the candidate of the ruling Congress (1) Party. Sinha one year younger. Is fighting his maiden election as a nominee of the pro-lllndu, main opposition Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), (Indian People's Party).
More than 100 other candidates, most of them Independents, are in the fray, but the Khanna-Sinha battle, with the full involvement of their film-gloss wives and scores of enthusiastic supporters, has left the others as also-rans and overshadowed the polls for the one other parliamentary and 19 state assembly scats also to be held Monday.
The Wives -- Dimple Khanna Is a leading actress while Poonam Sinha 1* a former Miss India — have turned the campaign into "Star-Wars" ns they accompany their husbands out to woo Delhi's nearly 460.000 voters in the city's blistering 43 degree Celsius (110 degree Fahrenheit) mid-Summer heat.
The outcome of the polls will not affect the status of India minority government. But with both the Congress and BJP concentrating heavily in the New Delhi constituency, neither can afford to lose.
Because 1t can be seen as a mlnl-
rcfcrcndum on the ll-month:old government of Prime Minister PV Narasimha Rao. "the election for New Delhi seat Is important," BJP chief MurH Manohar Joshi said Saturday.
Both Khanna and Sinha have braved the heat to address dozens of meetings dally, punctuating thetr speeches with film dialogue, Hindi couplets and cheap,humpur.
The middle class and slum crowds love It, and hundreds — women 1n parik'ular-wait for hours for a glimpose of Khanna and Sinha.
Few bother to listen to what they say —
which In anycase Is not much - and many of their meetings have ended In Bedlam.
"I am not sad that the times have changed. My life 1s with you. I hope you will not change,' is a typical Khanna statement that draws cheers and applause.
The gruff, full-throated Sinha Is not to be outdone.
'Beware', he shouted, referring to the federal government.
Where are the jobs they promised? what happened to all the promises by the Congress.
Beware, Nemesis is at hand.
The crowd roars. It is a voice they have heard on the gig screen before.
"Vote for Sinha sir." Poonam pleaded with residents of a slum colony here. "You have seen how he acts in films. He will raise his voice in parliament for your cause with more fervour."
Both camps, using previously unknown front groups, have carried vicious smear campaigns. Thousand of posters have sprung up describing Khanna as a "tax thief- and Sinha as a "drunkard."
Two opinions polls published by the times of India give the edge to Khanna, who is May 1991 tost to then BJP President Itai Krlshana Advani - now the opposition leader -• by only 1.589 votes.
Advani later dropped the seat, now vacant, for another he had also won.
The parties' decision to field film stars has drawn flak from critics, particularly the Centrist Janata Dal (People's Party), whose candidate Jal Bhagwan Jatav is seen as a dark horse.
But supporters of Khanna and Sinha defend
them.
We did not put up Shatrugan Sinha because he is Just In actor or because he has a nine face," BJP spokestpan KR Matkanl said," he is very much a political animal."
Campaigning for the by-elections ended Saturday evening. The lO hour voting will take Clace Monday in. ail 21 constituencies eginning at 7:00 am (0130 GMT! with the results expected the next day.