In 1967 Indira Gandhi adopted a ‘bold strategy’. Which one of the following is not a part of the strategy?
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 3
The correct answer is Option (3) → Indira Gandhi ultimately reconciled with the President of the “Syndicate”
Option (1) Conversion of a simple power struggle into an ideological struggle Part of the strategy (Incorrect).
Option (2) She undertook a series of initiatives to give the government policy a left orientation Part of the strategy (Incorrect).
Option (3) Indira Gandhi ultimately reconciled with the President of the “Syndicate” Not a part (Correct). There was no reconciliation. She sidelined the Syndicate, and after the 1969 Presidential election the Congress President expelled the Prime Minister from the party, which split.
Option (4) She got the Congress Working Committee to adopt a Ten Point Programme Part of the strategy (Incorrect). It was adopted in May 1967 and included social control of banks and nationalisation of General Insurance.
NCERT (2025-26): “Presidential election, 1969 … 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.…”
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