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Emergency: The titanic feud between Rajmata Vijayaraje Scindia and Indira Gandhi

Rajmata Vijayaraje Scindia, Congress MP in 1957 and 1962, had annoyed Prime Minister Indira Gandhi by supporting newspaper baron Ramnath Goenka and ensuring his electoral victory from Vidisha, which was part of the erstwhile Gwalior state. A rank outsider and contesting as an independent, Goenka’s victory was all the more spectacular as it came in the middle of an Indira wave in 1971. Goenka's newspaper (The Indian Express) had an anti-establishment reputation.