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Challenges to and Restoration of the Congress system
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Study the map given below and answer the questions that follow :

Study the map given below and answer the questions that follow : (i) Which arc the states where Congress got majority in 1967 assembly polls ? (ii) Which are the states where Congress did not get majority in 1967 Assembly polls ? (iii) Name the state where a non-Congress party secured a majority of its own. (iv) Why were the non-Congress parties governments called SVD governments. (v) How the coalition parties were ideologically incongruent ? Give example.

(i) Which are the states where Congress got majority in 1967 assembly polls ?

(ii) Which are the states where Congress did not get majority in 1967 Assembly polls ?

(iii) Name the state where a non-Congress party secured a majority of its own.

 

Answer

(i) In 1967 Assembly polls the Congress got majority in the states of Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra. Andhra Pradesh, Mysore, Jammu and Kashmir, Assam, Manipur and Tripura.


(ii) In 1967 Assembly polls, the Congress did not get majority in the states of Punjab, Delhi, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, West Bengal. Orissa, Goa, Kerala and Madras. In Rajasthan it did not get majority but formed government with help from others.

(iii) Madras State (Now Tamil Nadu).

 

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