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Indira Gandhi Essay

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Indira Gandhi called for a fresh general election in January 1977. The opposition parties such as Bharatiya Jan Sangh(BJS), Bharatiya Lok Dal, Congress(O) and few other Congress rebels come together under the banner of the Janata Party to fight the general election. Janata Party won the election and the first Non-Congress government was formed in March 1977. Morarji Desai became the Prime Minister and Jagjivan Ram, a national Dalit icon, and Charan Singh, a prominent leader from Uttar Pradesh, were appointed Deputy Prime Ministers in the Janata Party government. It was an unstable government, which found it too difficult to manage the economic stress prevailing in the country. The Janata Party government collapsed due to internal differences and fresh elections were held in 1980. The Congress led by Indira Gandhi came back to power with a thumping majority. The Janata Party soon broke up into smaller parties due to sharp ideological differences among different leaders of the party. The leaders of the erstwhile BJS founded the Bharatiya Janata Party …show more content…

He was criticized by the opposition parties for the introduction of computers in the government offices. He tried to have good relations with the United States, which had suffered since 1971. At the same time, the Soviet Union remained the key strategic partner of India. He tried to improve relations with China in the wake of Indo-China border standoff in Arunachal Pradesh in 1987. During this period, India played an active role in political crises in its neighbourhood. In 1988, India sent a warship to defeat a military coup in Maldives and saved its civilian government. Rajiv Gandhi sent a peacekeeping force(IPKF) to Sri Lanka in 1987 in view of rising ethnic conflicts between Tamils and local Sinhalese in the island nation and this antagonized LTTE (Liberation Tigers of Tamil

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