Examine the dramatic changes that took place in the party system in India during 1969 to 1977.

Solution

The dramatic changes that took place in the party system in India during 1969 to 1977 are as follows:-

(i) The factional rivalry between the Syndicate and Indira Gandhi came in the open in 1969 during Presidential election. She projected to split as an ideological divide
between socialist and conservative factions of the congress party.
(ii) The Congress party now identified itself with a particular ideology, claiming to be the only socialist and pro-poor party.
(iii)Since 1969, the Congress party had started shedding its character as an umbrella party which accommodated leaders and workers of different ideological dispensations and view points.
(iv)With the change in the nature of the Congress party, other opposition parties relied more and more on what is known in Indian politics as ‘non-Congressism’. They also realised the need to avoid a division of non-Congress votes in the election.

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Read the passage and answer the questions below : ... Indira Gandhi changed the Congress into highly centralised and undemocratic party organisation, from the earlier federal, democratic and ideological formation that Nehru had led.....But this ... could not have happened had not Indira Gandhi changed the entire nature of politics. This new. populist politics turned political ideology ....... into a mere electoral discourse, use of various slogans not meant to be translated into government policies ...... During its great electoral victories in early 1970s, amidst the celebration, the Congress party as a political organisation died................—Sudipta Kaviraj
(a) What according to the author is the difference between the strategies of Nehru and Indira Gandhi ?

(b) Why does the author say that the Congress party ‘died’ in the seventies ?

(c) In what way, did the change in the Congress party affect other political parties also ?

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Challenges To And Restoration Of The Congress System

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