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Indira Gandhi got the Congress Working Committee to adopt a Ten Point Programme in which month and year?Read the answer and worked solution →The 1969 Presidential election followed the death of which President?Read the answer and worked solution →Whom did Indira Gandhi encourage to stand as an independent in the 1969 Presidential election?Read the answer and worked solution →Indira Gandhi's call letting Congress MPs vote freely in the 1969 Presidential poll was termed a:Read the answer and worked solution →After the 1969 split, what was Indira Gandhi's faction called?Read the answer and worked solution →Which popular measure did Indira Gandhi announce in 1969, taking over fourteen leading private banks?Read the answer and worked solution →What was the privy purse?Read the answer and worked solution →Indira Gandhi answered the opposition's Indira Hatao with which slogan in 1971?Read the answer and worked solution →How many seats did Indira Gandhi's Congress(R) win on its own in the 1971 Lok Sabha election?Read the answer and worked solution →Catch the SyndicateRead the answer and worked solution →Pop the Grand AllianceRead the answer and worked solution →Run the 1960s yearsRead the answer and worked solution →Slice the slogansRead the answer and worked solution →Old or new CongressRead the answer and worked solution →Which Prime MinisterRead the answer and worked solution →Type the numberRead the answer and worked solution →Congress system bingoRead the answer and worked solution →Prices rose 23 per cent in 1973 and again sharply in 1974. By how much did they rise in 1974?Read the answer and worked solution →In January 1974 students in which Congress-ruled State began an agitation against rising prices and corruption?Read the answer and worked solution →Who threatened an indefinite fast unless fresh elections were held in Gujarat?Read the answer and worked solution →Bihar students in 1974 invited which leader out of retirement to head their movement?Read the answer and worked solution →JP's call for sweeping change in social, economic and political life was known as:Read the answer and worked solution →The Naxalite movement takes its name from a 1967 peasant uprising in which district of West Bengal?Read the answer and worked solution →Who led the Communist Party (Marxist-Leninist) formed in 1969?Read the answer and worked solution →The nationwide railway strike of May 1974 was led by which trade union leader?Read the answer and worked solution →For how many days did the 1974 railway strike last before it was called off?Read the answer and worked solution →Which 1973 case ruled that Parliament cannot amend the basic features of the Constitution?Read the answer and worked solution →In 1973 the government superseded three senior judges to appoint whom as Chief Justice of India?Read the answer and worked solution →Which High Court judge declared Indira Gandhi's Lok Sabha election invalid on 12 June 1975?Read the answer and worked solution →Whose election petition led to the Allahabad High Court verdict against Indira Gandhi?Read the answer and worked solution →

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Indira Gandhi got the Congress Working Committee to adopt a Ten Point Programme in which month and year?

  1. Nov 1969
  2. Dec 1970
  3. March 1971
  4. May 1967
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Correct answer: D. May 1967

1. She gave policy a Left orientation. 2. The Ten Point Programme came in May 1967. 3. It included social control of banks and land reforms. _Source: syllabus Political Science, Politics in India since Independence, Chapter 5, Challenges to and Restoration of the Congress System._

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The 1969 Presidential election followed the death of which President?

  1. Zakir Hussain
  2. Rajendra Prasad
  3. Radhakrishnan
  4. Sanjeeva Reddy
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Correct answer: A. Zakir Hussain

1. President Zakir Hussain died in 1969. 2. The Syndicate nominated Sanjeeva Reddy. 3. Indira backed V. V. Giri as an independent. _Source: syllabus Political Science, Politics in India since Independence, Chapter 5, Challenges to and Restoration of the Congress System._

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Whom did Indira Gandhi encourage to stand as an independent in the 1969 Presidential election?

  1. Morarji Desai
  2. V. V. Giri
  3. Sanjeeva Reddy
  4. Zakir Hussain
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Correct answer: B. V. V. Giri

1. V. V. Giri was then Vice-President. 2. He filed as an independent. 3. He won against the official Congress candidate. _Source: syllabus Political Science, Politics in India since Independence, Chapter 5, Challenges to and Restoration of the Congress System._

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