Part-II
Chapter 5: Challenges to and Restoration of The Congress System

Important Questions

1. In which year was the Fifth General Elections to Lok Sabha held? Imp. (C.B.S.E. 2014)

2. Who represented Congress (O) and Congress (R) after the split of the Congress Party? (C.B.S.E. 2014)

3. What is meant by the term ‘Congress Syndicate’? Imp. (C.B.S.E. 2014)

4. Assess the role played by ‘defections’ on Indian politics.(C.B.S.E. 2019)

5. Assess the role of Maulana Abul Kalam Azad towards maintaining communal harmony in India. (All India 2016)

Sample Questions

1. List any two challenges faced by India during Lal Bahadur Shastri’s Government, (All India to 2000)

2. Mention any two problems which were faced by the Government of Indira Gandhi during 1969-1971. (All India to 2008)

3. What does defection stand for in Indian politics? Highlight any two demerits of this practice. (Delhi 2014)

4. Analyse the issue ‘India vs the Syndicate’; What type of challenges did the issue pose before Indira Gandhi? (All India 2017)
OR
What does the term ‘Syndicate’ mean in the context of the Congress Party of the sixties? What role did the Syndicate play in the Congress party? (Delhi 2008)

5. Examine the major changes that the country witnessed at the time of fourth general election in 1967. (All India 2016)
Or
Examine the grave economic crisis prior to the fourth general elections of 1967. Assess the verdict of the electorate based on the election. (Delhi 2010)
Or

6. How did the fourth General Elections (1967) in India change the dynamics of Indian politics? (All India 2009)