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Indira made the party into her own puppet organisation while economic malaise and unemployment started deepening. Suppression of railway strikes in 1974 led to fall in working-class support.Centralisation of power and increasing influence of business magnates(which led to more corruption) stoked
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of 1967 made it imperative that the ruling class needed to address the concerns of small and middle peasantry against feudal interests. Indira undertook structural reforms to boost middle-class among rural and urban areas as well to project her leftist credentials while simultaneously providing
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and retained the party symbol of a pair of bullocks carrying a yoke. Mrs. Gandhi's breakaway faction were given a new symbol of a cow with suckling calf by the Election Commission as the party election symbol.
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Cheap foodgrains were distributed to the poor by government initiative while influence of businessmen in politics was curtailed by imposing ban on donations to parties through joint-stock companies.
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Andersen, Walter K.. India in 1981: Stronger Political Authority and Social Tension, published in Asian Survey, Vol. 22, No. 2, A Survey of Asia in 1981: Part II (Feb., 1982), pp. 119-135
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Sycophantic party leaders further contributed to the rot in leadership. The regime reached its absolute nadir with the disqualification of Indira and the subsequent
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The right-wing tried to control the party but Mrs Gandhi allied with the centre-left forces and fought back and the party split.
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Leaders like Jagjivan Ram and Hemvati Nandan Bahuguna left the party as the Emergency became unpopular. Both went on to form
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On May 18, 1974, a significant breakthrough was achieved by the detonation of a nuclear device at Pokhran.
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In 1972, general insurance and coal industry were nationalised even as mixed economy was still followed.
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The party was removed from power after the emergency was lifted and elections were conducted.
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Later, in 1978 Indira Gandhi broke away from the Congress (R) to form the Congress (Indira).
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Congress (I) where the 'I' stands for Indira Gandhi, was a camp that emerged in 1978...
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The letter 'R' stands for 'Requisition'. The original congress party then became the
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The split occurred when, in 1969, a united opposition under the banner of
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Split in a Predominant Party: The Indian National Congress in 1969
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from its name, while Congress (O) merged with parties like the
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THE INC (INDIAN NATIONAL CONGRESS) A PARTY OF IDEA AND CHANGES
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The government had a major boost in support after winning the
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public sector financial aid to bourgeois industrialists.
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on February 2nd, 1977, which eventually merged with
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Index

Congress (R)
Indira Gandhi
Indian National Congress
Indian National Congress (I)
Ideology
Secularism
Economic nationalism
Soviet
Political position
Centre-left
left-wing
Turquoise

Politics of India
Political parties
Elections
Indira Gandhi
Indian National Congress
Indian National Congress (O)
Indian National Congress (Organisation)
Kamaraj
Samyukt Vidhayak Dal
Hindi belt
Jawaharlal Nehru
1971 general election
Lok Sabha
Naxalbari uprising
Indo-Pakistani war of 1971
emergency
Congress for democracy

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