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So the Congress Party which claims to be Gandhi ji's party is an absolutely false.
First: The name of Gandhi itself is a falsity. Feroze Ghandy(no misspell), a Gujrati Parsi politician changed his surname to Gandhi to keep in line with his admiration for Gandhi ji.
This...
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.... Person married Indira Nehru. She took up the name of Gandhi and became Indira Gandhi. Indira Gandhi was expelled from INC on 12th November 1969 for violating party rules after she incited internal revolt since 1967. She was expelled by none other thn Lal Bahadur Sastri
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.. after this, Congress split into INC(O) and INC(R). INC(R) was headed by Indira Gandhi and INC(O) was headed by K. Kamaraj. Later, Morarji Desai headed INC(O).
INC(O) merged with Bharatiya Jan Sangh and Bharatiya Lok Dal to form Janata party in 1977. But let's jump a...
(5/n).. Years back. Apart from internal conflict, Indira Gandhi was found guilty of electoral manipulation in 1971 elections by Allahabad High Court on 12 June 1975 and hence she was barred from contesting elections for next 6 years, until 1981. This led to wide protests which...
(6/n)... Caused the INC(R) to declare emergency for "preserving National security". Using quotes because it was to save herself from the law.
This caused creation of Janata Party in 1977 which had a landslide victory in 1977. Major ideological differences caused PM Morarji Desai
(7/n)... To resign. By this time, Indira Gandhi declared her Congress to be the "New Congress" (INC(I)) which, due to TINA, won the election in 1980, violating Allahabad HC orders.
The original Janata Party continued despite various fallouts and maintained small presence UNTIL...
(8/n) it merged with current day @BJP4India under @Swamy39 on 11th August 2013. Therefore if it's the Congress of Gandhi and Patel and Nehru you're looking for, you look at current day #BJP. Congress has no claim on Gandhi name. The only claim it has is that of a misspell.
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