of the Indian National Congress party. Gandhi‚ who served from 1966 to 1977 and then again from 1980 until her assassination in 1984‚ is the second-longest-serving Prime Minister of India and the only woman to hold the office. Indira Gandhi was the only child of Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru. She served as the Chief of Staff of her father’s highly centralized administration between 1947 and 1964 and came to wield considerable unofficial influence in government. Elected Congress President
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success did Nehru deal with the economic and social problems facing India? Jawaharlal Nehru‚ leader of the Indian National Congress and later India’s first prime minister‚ led the Congress Party to victory in India’s first three general elections. Nehru was born in 1889‚ educated in England and then returned back to India. In the 1920´s he travelled around India and was alarmed by the Indian people suffering from poverty and oppression. Inspired by his travelling around the world he had an idea that
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resolution was passed on 8 August 1942 in Bombay by the All India Congress Committee‚ declaring its demand for an immediate end of British rule. The Congress decided to organize a mass struggle on non-violent lines on the widest possible scale. Gandhiji’s slogan of ‘Do or Die’ (‘Karo ya Maro’) inspired the nation. Every man‚ women and child began dreaming of a free India. The government’s response to the movement was quick. The Congress was banned and most of its leaders were arrested before they could
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Sardar Vallabhai Patel Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel was an Indian barrister and statesman‚ one of the leaders of the Indian National Congress and one of the founding fathers of the Republic of India. He is known to be a social leader of India who played an unparalleled role in the country’s struggle for independence and guided its integration into a united‚ independent nation. He was raised in the countryside of Gujarat in a family of Leva- Patidar. He traveled to attend schools in Nadiad‚ Petlad
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Sabha Main Elections 2014 Indian general election‚ 2014 ________________________________________ 2009 ← members Before May 31‚ 2014 ________________________________________ All 543 seats in the Lok Sabha 272 seats needed for a majority Party Congress BJP Alliance UPA NDA Last election 262 seats‚37.22% 137 seats‚24.63% Current seats 228 137 Seats needed 44 135 ________________________________________ Incumbent Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Congress A general election will be
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Progressive Alliance (UPA) lead by the Indian National Congress (Congress) was re-elected to a second five year term in 2009. The present political scene in India is quite exceptional due to the relatively strong position of the ruling coalition. Economic: India Ranks 11th (nominal) / 4th (PPP) has GDP growth 8.8% (2010‚ Q1)‚ Inflation (CPI) 8.5% (August 2010) in spite of Global Meltdown and Population below poverty line is deceased to 37% (2010). Socio-cultural: Indians are religion‚ caste‚ family centric
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By about 1950 it may be said that India had closed a chapter in her long history and opened another. The British had gone‚ the new regime had been successfully established‚ and outstanding questions left over from the past had been dealt with. The Congress (party) had‚ with the exception of the loss of Pakistan‚ completed its program‚ and the way was clear for India to chart a new course into the future. Nehru was the central figure of this new India. So powerful was his personality and its hold
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PUNDIT JAWAHARLAL NEHRU Jawaharlal Nehru was an Indian statesman(14 November 1889 – 27 May 1964) who was the first and longest-serving Prime Minister of India‚ from 1947 until 1964. One of the leading figures in the Indian independence movement‚ Nehru was elected by the Indian National Congress to assume office as independent India’s first Prime Minister‚ and re-elected when the Congress Party won India’s first general election in 1952. As one of the founders of the Non-Aligned Movement
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Contemporary Issues and Ideas in Social Sciences June 2010 The Curious Case of the Bombay Plan Amal Sanyal1 Abstract ‘Bombay Plan’‚ authored by a group of Indian industrialists and technocrats in 1944‚ was meant as a fifteen year investment plan for India. The strategy of the government’s five year plans after independence was very similar to the Bombay Plan’s. First three five year plans had almost the same sectoral outlay pattern and together they can be described as a scaled down version
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Indian Political Scenario India was declared a Sovereign free State in the year 1950‚ and‚ the patriots who had struggled for this event could‚ never have visulaised that‚ after fifty years of that great event‚ India would be in such a dilapidated political shape as it was‚ in the year 1998‚ till now. The year 1998 presented a spectacular change in the political scenario of the country by outsing the erstwhile century old single political party of the country‚ the Indian National Congress. This ouster
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