George Fernandes fought 1977 election from jail and won
Former Defence Minister George Fernandes, who passed away on Tuesday at the age of 88, fought the 1977 Lok Sabha election from jail and won Bihar's Muzaffarpur constituency. He was an undertrial in the Baroda Dynamite Case. Fernandes had been charged with smuggling dynamite in an alleged plot to blow up railway tracks and government buildings in the case.