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Analyse the issue ‘Indira vs the Syndicate’. What type of challenges did the issue pose before Indira Gandhi ?

 Indira vs Syndicate:-
(i) The real challenge to Indira Gandhi came not only from the opposition but from within her own party. Indira Gandhi had to deal with the ‘syndicate’, a group of powerful and influential leaders from within the Congress.

(ii) The Syndicate had played a role in the installation of Indira Gandhi as the Prime Minister by ensuring her election as a leader of the Parliamentary party, but Syndicate wanted to control after they managed to make her the Prime Minister.

 Challenges faced by Indira Gandhi
(i) She needed to build her independence from the Syndicate.

(ii) She needed to work to regain the ground, the Congress had lost in the 1967elections.

(iii) Indira Gandhi adopted a very bold strategy. She converted a simple power struggle into an ideological struggle.

(iv)She launched a series of initiatives and a Ten Point Programme, included social control of banks, nationalisation of general insurance, ceiling on urban property and income.