ABSTRACT
The second chapter analyses the position of the Indian National Congress in the post-emergency period. The chapter explains the organization split in the Congress and the different leadership styles of Prime Ministers of Congress: From Nehruvian Consensus to Indira Gandhi's Centralization to Rajiv Gandhi's Struggle with Leadership. It analyses the emergence of Centre-State politics due to non-Congress governments at the State level and the ideological reorganization of Congress. The chapter concludes with the development of Congressional politics of the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s.
