MRS GANDHI surprised India and the world when she relaxed the State of Emergency she had declared in June 1975, and announced elections. Since then
Opposition politicians, many of them released from prison, have joined to form the new Janata Front.
David Dimbleby reports from India on the constitutional, legal and economic changes that Mrs Gandhi has made, and the background to this election. Is this a pause on the way to a dictatorship, or proof that Indian democracy is intact?
Producer CLIVE SYDDALL
Assistant editor DAVID HARRISON Editor PETER PAGNAMENTA