Question

Read the passage given below carefully and answer the questions that follow:

The defeat of the official Congress candidate formalized the split in the party. The Congress President expelled the Prime Minister from the party; she claimed that her group was the real Congress. By November 1969, the Congress group led by the ‘syndicate’ came to be referred to as the Congress (Organization), and the group led by Indira Gandhi came to be called the Congress (Requisitionists). These two parties were also described as Old Congress and New Congress. Indira Gandhi projected the split as an ideological divide.

1. The passage is related to which election in India?
2. Who was the official Congress candidate in that election?
3. Why did then Congress President expelled the Prime Minister from the party?
4. According to Indira Gandhi, how was the split in the Congress an ideological divide?

Answer 1

1. The Presidential Elections of 1969.
2. The late Mr. N. Sanjeeva Reddy.
3. At that time, S. Nijalingappa was President of the Congress Party. He dismissed Indira Gandhi, who was the Prime Minister, because she supported a candidate named V.V. Giri instead of the official Congress candidate, who won.
4. The late Prime Minister Indira Gandhi saw the split in the Congress as a clash of ideas between socialists and conservatives, or between those who want to help the poor and those who want to help the rich.