The Congress System and the Opposition
Part 2 — why the Congress dominated, and who opposed it.
In this lesson you will
- Distinguish a dominant-party democracy from a one-party system
- Explain the Congress as a social and ideological coalition that tolerated factions
- Explain the role of the opposition in the 1950s
- Describe the ideas and origins of the Socialist Party, the CPI, the Jana Sangh and the Swatantra Party