Lebanon- Pre-emptive Withdrawal

January 26, 1985 cent) in the Lok Sabha elections. The combined opposition including the Nijalingappa Congress, Swatantra and CPI(M) polled less than 13 per cent of the votes. The voting pattern in the 1972 Assembly poll was not very different. The Congress romped home with 202 seats and 74.74 lakh votes (52.3 per cent). The organised opposition fared poorly. Together these parties polled only 7.2 per cent of the votes