Enplain any one resen for treating the
year 1967 as turning point in the Indian
politics
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The March 1967 general elections in India was perhaps the last time when the people of our nation voted to elect the Union as well as the State Governments simultaneously. The Congress party, even while retaining power at the Centre (with a reduced strength in the Lok Sabha) was voted out in nine states. Uttar Pradesh, where the Congress had managed a majority in the election also slipped out of its hold, within a month, when Charan Singh left the party with a chunk of MLAs to become Chief Minister of a non-Congress coalition.
The Congress party split in a couple of years and Prime Minister Indira Gandhi’s faction was reduced to a minority in the Lok Sabha in December 1969. She remained Prime Minister garnering support from parties such as the CPI(M), DMK and CPI. The CPM was part of the anti-Indira governing coalition in West Bengal but the ministry soon fell under the weight of its own contradiction as had happened with other such formations in Uttar Pradesh, Bihar and Haryana. Indira sought DMK’s support despite Congress MLAs in Tamil Nadu opposing the DMK government in the state. The CPI also broke ranks with the Opposition to side with Indira Gandhi then.
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