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How was the contest between Indira Gandhi and Morarji Desai for Prime Minister settled in 1966?

AA nationwide referendum
BNomination by the President
CA vote in the Rajya Sabha
DSecret ballot of Congress MPs
Answer & Solution
Correct answer: D. Secret ballot of Congress MPs
1. Senior leaders backed Indira Gandhi but not unanimously. 2. A secret ballot among Congress MPs decided it. 3. She won over two-thirds of the MPs. _Source: syllabus Political Science, Politics in India since Independence, Chapter 5, Challenges to and Restoration of the Congress System._
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