The Changing Pattern of Politics

Indian politics at the end of the eighties showed quite a contrast to what it used to be, say, twenty years earlier. The Congress party which inherited all the strength, good will and organisational efficiency of the pre-Independence ‘Indian National Congress’ dominated the political life of the country until the sixties. It had chalked out a programme of economic development board on the ‘socialist pattern’ and devised new institutions like the national Planning Commission to help implement it.