Read the passage given below carefully and answer the following questions:

The New Congress had something that its big opponents lacked – it had an issue, an agenda and a positive slogan. The Grand Alliance did not have a coherent political programme. Indira Gandhi said that the opposition alliance had only one common programme ‘Indira Hatao’. In contrast to this, she put forward a positive programme captured in the famous slogan ‘Garibi Hatao’.

(i) Which Congress is being referred to as the ‘New Congress’?

(ii) Highlight any two steps taken by Indira Gandhi to remove poverty.

(iii) How far is it justified to call the ‘opposition alliance’ as the ‘Grand Alliance’?

Solution

(i) The Congress led by Indira Gandhi after the split in Congress is referred as the New Congress.

(ii) The steps were:

(a) Nationalisation of Banks

(b) Abolition of Privy Purse

(iii)To call this alliance of opposition parties as a Grand Alliance is justified because all the major parties were included in this alliance against congress.

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