Compare and contrast the performance of Congress in elections of 1989 from its performance in 1984? As quoted by the article, what were the reasons for the dismal performance in 1989?
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General elections were held in India in 1989 to elect the members of the 9th Lok Sabha.[2] V. P. Singh united the entire disparate spectrum of parties including regional parties such as the Telugu Desam Party, the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam, and the Asom Gana Parishad, forming the National Front with N.T.Rama Rao as president and V. P. Singh as convenor with additional outside support from the Bharatiya Janata Party and Communist Party of India (Marxist) led Left front they defeated Rajiv Gandhi's Congress (I) in the 1989 parliamentary elections.
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In 1989 election V.P Singh (former cabinet minister of Congress (I) had united the entire disparate spectrum of parties including regional parties such as the Telugu Desam Party, the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK), and the Asom Gana Parishad (AGP), forming the "National Front" ( for the first time India saw "COALITION PARTY RULING") with NT Rama Rao as president, VP Singh as convenor with additional outside support from the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and Communist Party (CPI) of India (Marxist) led Left front they defeated Rajiv Gandhi's Congress (I) in the 1989 parliamentary elections.
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- The Indian general elections of 1989 took place after the former Lok Sabha had been in force for five years. While Rajiv Gandhi won the previous election with an uproar, he was facing controversies that had clouded his administration during this electoral period.
- The Bofors crisis, the growing terrorist act in Punjab, the LTTE-Sri Lankan civil struggle were just a few of the threats faced by the Rajiv regime. The chief opponent of Rajiv was VP Singh, who held government portfolios for the Ministry of Finance and Security.
- But Singh was shortly dismissed from the government and later resigned as a member of the Lok Sabha & Congress party. With Arun Nehru & Arif Mohammad Khan, he founded the "Jan Morcha" and from Allahabad he returned to the Lok Sabha. Testifying to the meteoric rise of V P Singh on a national scale, Rajiv attempted counter him with another famous Rajput loyalist Satyendra Narain Singh, but ultimately lost.
1984 General Elections
- Elections in India took place immediately after the assassination of previous Prime Minister, Indira Gandhi, in 1984, but in Assam & Punjab voting was postponed to 1985, because of continuing disturbances. It was a landslide win for Rajiv Gandhi (son of Indira Gandhi)'s Indian National Congress, with 404 of the 514 seats being won by the Congress (I) in the year 1984,
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