Contest Against Sonia Gandhi
In 1999, BJP nominated her to contest against the Congress party's President, Sonia Gandhi, from the Bellary constituency in Karnataka, which had always returned Congress winners since India's independence. During her campaign, she addressed public meetings in Kannada. She secured 3,58,000 votes in just 12 days of campaign. However,she lost the election by 7% votes.
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“The contest ends at midnight tonight
But you can submit again, and again.”
—John Ashbery (b. 1927)
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Gandhi: “I think it would be a very good idea.””
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