Rahul Gandhi May Repeat Restructuring Process of Congress
like Indira Gandhi not only as Mask President of Congress
A View By: Balbir Singh Sooch-Sikh Vichar Manch
1.     Indira Gandhi was involved in a dispute with senior party leaders on a number of issues as now seems similarly Rahul Gandhi.
2.     “On May 25, two days after the Lok Sabha results, the Congress chief, Rahul Gandhi had announced to the Congress Working Committee (CWC) that he would step down as the party president.
3.     Since then, for almost a month now he had refused to meet any party leader or office-bearer in his capacity as the Congress President except Punjab Minister Navjot Singh Sidhu who was having an open battle with Chief Minister Capt. Amarinder Singh.
4.     However, last week, Mr. Gandhi started meeting party leaders and Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel was the first to meet him to analyse the poll debacle in the State. As The Hindu had reported on May 29, Mr. Gandhi could stay until the party starts the restructuring exercise”. THE HINDU:
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5.     “After  Shastri's death, Congress elected Indira Gandhi as leader over Morarji Desai. Once again, politician K. Kamaraj was instrumental in achieving this result. In 1967, following a poor performance in the general election, Indira Gandhi started moving towards the political left.
6.     In mid-1969, she was involved in a dispute with senior party leaders on a number of issues.
7.     The two major issues were Gandhi supporting the independent candidate, V. V. Giri, rather than the official Congress party candidate, Neelam Sanjiva Reddy, for the vacant post of the President of India.
8.     The second issue was Mrs. Gandhi's abrupt nationalization of the 14 biggest banks in India, which resulted in the resignation of the finance minister, Morarji Desai.
9.     Later in the year, the Congress party president, S. Nijalingappa, expelled her from the party for indiscipline. Mrs. Gandhi as a counter-move launched her own faction of the INC.
10.     Mrs. Gandhi's faction, called Congress (R), was supported by most of the Congress MPs while the original party had the support of only 65 MPs.  This was also known as Congress(I) was led by Indira Gandhi. The "I" in the name of congress stood for Indira.
11.     It was also known as INC(R) R stands for Requisition. It soon came to be known as the New Congress. In the All India Congress Committee, 446 of its 705 members walked over to Indira's side. This created a belief among Indians that Indira's Congress was the Real Congress (INC-R).
12.     After the separation of the two parties, there was also a dispute about the party logo. The "Old Congress" retained the party symbol of a pair of bullocks carrying a yoke while Indira's breakaway faction were given a new symbol of a cow with suckling calf by the Election Commission as the party election symbol. The split occurred when, in 1969, a united opposition under the banner of Samyukt Vidhayak Dal, won control over several states in the Hindi Belt.
13.    In the mid-term parliamentary elections held in 1971, the Gandhi-led Congress (R) Party won a landslide victory on a platform of progressive policies such as the elimination of poverty (Garibi Hatao).
14.    The policies of the Congress (R) Party under Gandhi before the 1971 elections included proposals to abolish the Privy Purse to former rulers of the Princely states, and the 1969 nationalisation of India's 14 largest banks.” Indira era (1966–1984): From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
A View By: Balbir Singh Sooch-Sikh Vichar Manch
 First Posted On: June 27, 2019, 5:42 PM (IST)
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