Practicing Success

Target Exam

CUET

Subject

Political Science

Chapter

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

Question:

When did congress opt for the Ten Point Programme?

Options:

August 1971

May 1971

May 1967

August 1967

Correct Answer:

May 1967

Explanation:

Indira Gandhi got the Congress Working Committee to adopt a Ten Point Programme in May 1967.

Indira Gandhi launched a series of initiatives in 1967 to give the government policy a Left orientation. The syndicate leaders formally approved this Left-wing programme, they had serious reservations about the same.