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what are the mojor changes in political system after 1967elections​

Answer 1

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1) There were many major changes in political system after 1967 elections.2) Elections had become ... More

Answer 2

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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.

The coalition of anti-Congress forces consisting of many shades of socialists and the Bharatiya Jan Sangh along with the clumsy bunch of Swatantra Party leaders appeared to scatter away in the States where they formed governments in 1967. But the Congress split in December 1969 seemed to bolster the Lohiaite strategy (of an all-out unity against Indira’s Congress) even after Lohia’s death in October 1967, leading to the grand-alliance of all those (barring the two Left parties) in the 1971 general elections. But then, the results of the general election showed that these parties had lost the confidence of the people for the moment. The alliance was routed across the country except in Gujarat and Tamil Nadu.