This was the demand placed by the Chikmagalur Lok Sabha seat constituents, 35 years ago, to former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi. In 1978, Gandhi chose the constituency, which not only put the ...

Moily, who was then an MLA from the Karkala assembly segment -- which was part of the Chikmagalur LS constituency, had campaigned along with Mukherjee for Indira Gandhi. “We had also toured the ...

Lok Sabha thus became the first house of representatives ... by a comfortable majority. Although Indira Gandhi maintained that she would stand again from Chikmagalur, she eventually decided ...

A railway line which was first proposed by the late prime minister Indira Gandhi, when she contested the Lok Sabha elections from Chikmagalur in 1978, will become operational soon. According to ...

Indira Gandhi's house has become a tourist spot "It is rather small, isn't it? I thought she lived like a queen in a building befitting a palace," exclaims a visitor taking a trip of the bungalow, now ...

Against this backdrop, it would be interesting to see how 45 years ago, former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi desperately ... victory a month earlier in Chikmagalur (called Udupi-Chikmagalur after ...