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Current Politics

1. Congress years 1947-1996

2. Years of Competition 1996-present

Two Party System?

Two Half Parties?

Regional parties?


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Nehru Dynasty

Jawaharlal Nehru Indira GandhiPM 1947-64 PM 1966-77, 80-84


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Congress Dominates

Election Year Seats for Congress Seats for Second Largest

Party

1952 364 16

1957 371 27

1962 361 291967 283 44

1971 352 44

1977 (lost power) 154 298 (Janata Party alliance)

1980 353 35

1984 415 30

1989 (lost power) 197 143

1991 (formed coalition) 226 120


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Indira Gandhi


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Congress (I)


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1984 Golden Temple of Amritsar


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Congress after Indira Gandhi

1984-1989 1991-1996

Rajiv Gandhi P. V. N. Rao


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Years of Competition

Factors

End of Nehru Dynasty

Economic reform

Corruption in Congress

Rise of regional, religious, caste-based parties


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1996 Election

Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) 160

Congress Party 136

National Front 110

National Front forms government


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1998 Election

BJP 176

Congress Party 140

United Front 97


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1998

BJP forms government

National Democratic Alliance (15 parties)

PM A. B. Vajpayee

1998-2004

Indian nuclear tests

May1998
http://www.fas.org/nuke/guide/india/nuke/shakti-pix.htmhttp://www.fas.org/nuke/guide/india/nuke/shakti-pix.htm


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Congress Regroups

Sonia Gandhi


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1999 Election

BJP 182

Congress Party 112

BJP/NDA remains in power


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2004 Election

BJP/NDA

India Shining

vs.Congress/United Progressive

Alliance (UPA)

It is a contest between the Congressand the BJP that issystematically undermining the very essence of Indian civilization

and destroying the very idea of India.

2004 Election Manifesto
http://www.aicc.org.in/new/manifesto-detail.php?id=17http://www.aicc.org.in/new/manifesto-detail.php?id=17


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2004 Election BJP 138

Congress Party 145 (UPA 219)

Left Parties 56

UPA and Leftist parties form coalition

PM Manmohan Singh


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2009 Election BJP 116

Congress Party 206

UPA retains power

PM Manmohan Singh
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Challenges and Developments

1. Two parties or Two Half Parties

2. Regional parties

3. Religion and Politics

4. Can Congress get beyond the

Dynasty?5. Celebrity and Corruption


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1. Two parties or Two Half Parties?272 (273) the magic number!Stability?

Party Congress BJP

1991 226 119

1996 136 160

1998 140 176

1999 112 182

2004 145 138

2009 206 116


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2. Regional Parties

2009 Lok Sabha

2 National parties 1 semi-national party (CPI-M) with seats in

four states

39 Regional parties
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3. Religion and Politics

BJP History

Hindutva(Hindu Nationalism)

RSS(Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh)

Vishwa Hindu Parishad (World

Hindu Council)
http://www.bjp.org/content/view/2646/473/http://www.rss.org/http://www.rss.org/http://www.bjp.org/content/view/2646/473/


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Ayodhya, Uttar Pradesh

Babri Mosque 16thCentury

Ayodhya Temple
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/62/Babri_rearview.jpg


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Babri Mosque, December 6, 1992


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Fallout of 1992 1992-1993 Riots

Gujarat 2002

Liberhan Commission Report

Narendra Modi L. K. Advani

Chief Minister of Gujarat President BJP
http://beta.thehindu.com/news/article54082.ecehttp://beta.thehindu.com/news/article54082.ece


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4. Congress and the Nehru Dynasty


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5. Celebrity and Corruption

Jayalalitha of Tamil Nadu

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