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Read the passage given below carefully and answer the questions:The defeat of the official Congress candidate formalised the split in the party. The Congress President expelled the Prime Minister from the party; she claimed that her group was the real Congress. By November 1969, the Congress group led by the ‘syndicate’ came to be referred to as the Congress (Organisation) and the group led by Indira Gandhi came to be called the Congress (Requisitionists). These two parties were also described as Old Congress and New Congress. Indira Gandhi projected the split as an ideological divide between socialists and conservatives, between the pro-poor and the pro-rich. (i) What formalised the split of Congress? (ii) Mention two groups created after the split. (iii) How did Indira Gandhi project the split? |
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• Congress (O) i.e. Organisation led by syndicate known as old Congress, Congress (R) i.e. requisitionists led by Indira Gandhi known as new Congress. • Indira Gandhi projected the split as an ideological divide between socialists and conservatives, between pro-rich and pro-poor. |
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