Indian National Congress (R)

Indian National Congress (R) was a split in Indian National Congress, created by Indira Gandhi in 1967 when a united opposition, under the banner of Samyukt Vidhayak Dal, won control over several states in the Hindi belt. Indira Gandhi, the daughter of Nehru, and Congress president, was then challenged by the majority of the party leadership. Initially this party was known as Congress (R), but it soon came to be generally known as the "New Congress". The letter 'R' stands for 'Requisition'.^[1]

In 1967 when a new coalition, under the banner of the Kamaraj. It was informally called the "Old Congress" and retained the party symbol of a pair of bullocks carrying a yoke. Mrs. Gandhi's breakaway faction were given a new symbol of a cow with suckling calf by the Election Commission as the party election symbol.^[1]

In the 1971 general election, Congress (R) had secured an overwhelming majority winning 352 out of 518 seats in the Lok Sabha. In the elections to five state assemblies too, the Congress (R) performed well. As a result, the Election Commission recognized it as the real Congress, allowed it to call itself Indian National Congress without any suffix and restored the frozen Congress symbol of two bullocks to it.^[2]

Notes

^ ^a ^b Sanghvi, Vijay (2006). The Congress, Indira to Sonia Gandh. New Delhi: Kalpaz Publications. p. 77.
^ Mukharjee, Aditya. "Congress and the Making of the Indian Nation". Academic Foundation, New Delhi. Retrieved 17 May 2014.

The Emergency of 1975–77

Personalities	Indira Gandhi Jayaprakash Narayan Siddhartha Shankar Ray Jivatram Kripalani Morarji Desai Atal Bihari Vajpayee K. Kamaraj M. G. Ramachandran M. Karunanidhi Harcharan Singh Longowal Lal Krishna Advani Charan Singh Jagjivan Ram Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed Sanjay Gandhi Jagmohan Bansi Lal Zail Singh Devakanta Barua Jagmohanlal Sinha Hans Raj Khanna H. N. Bahuguna Raj Narain George Fernandes Neelam Sanjiva Reddy

Organisations	Indian National Congress (R) Indian National Congress Janata Morcha Janata Party Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam Dravidar Kazhagam Indian National Congress (Organisation) Shiromani Akali Dal Bharatiya Jana Sangh Swatantra Party Bharatiya Lok Dal Socialist Party of India Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh Communist Party of India (Marxist) People's Union for Civil Liberties

Events	State of Emergency in India State of Uttar Pradesh v. Raj Narain 38th Amendment 39th Amendment 42nd Amendment Turkman gate demolition and rioting Baroda dynamite case Shah Commission Maintenance of Internal Security Act Rajan case Indian general election, 1977

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Indian National Congress (R)