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Analyse the circumstances that led to the restoration of Congress system after
the party’s split in 1969.

 Socialists credentials, Ten point programme, Nationalisation of Banks, Nationalisation of General Insurance, Pro-poor programmes.
 Land Reforms, Land Celling Act.
 GaribiHatao – Positive programme.
 Abolition of Privy Purse.
 Generation of a support base among the disadvantaged, landless Labourors, dalits, adivasis, minorities, women and unemployed youth.
 Results of the General Elections 1971 – Congress Victory.
 Victory in the Indo-Pak War 1971 – Indira Gandhi seen as the protector of the poor & the underprivileged but also as a strong nationalist leader.
 Sweeping through State Assembly Elections in 1972 by the Congress.  With two successive election victories, one at the Center and the other at the State level, the dominance of the Congress was restored.
 Indira Gandhi had reinvented the party – It relied on the popularity of a supreme leader. It had a weak organizational structure and did not have many factions. She restored the Congress by changing the nature of the Congress itself.