Practicing Success

Target Exam

CUET

Subject

Political Science

Chapter

Politics in India Since Independence: Challenges to and Restoration of the Congress System

Question:

Choose the correct statement:

After the Assembly elections in 1967, Indira Gandhi faced some challenges like:
1.She needed to build her independence from the Syndicate.
2.She also needed to work towards regaining the ground that the Congress had lost in the 1967 elections.

Options:

1 only

2 only

Both 1 and 2

Neither 1 nor 2

Correct Answer:

Both 1 and 2

Explanation:

Indira Gandhi faced two challenges. She needed to build her independence from the Syndicate. She also needed to work towards regaining the ground that the Congress had lost in the 1967 elections. Indira Gandhi adopted a very bold strategy. She converted a simple power struggle into an ideological struggle. She launched a series of initiatives to give the government policy a Left orientation.