The situations of revolt by the leaders in Congress, India’s oldest get together, will be traced as early as 1939 when Subhas Chandra Bose parted methods with it, and later one other bigwig C Rajagopalachari left to type an unbiased get together in 1957. The sporadic episodes of revolt continued throughout and after the period of India’s first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru.
In the newest such swap, former Union Minister and Congress chief Jitin Prasada hopped over to the Bharatiya Janata Party on June 9.
The former MP switched to the BJP simply a 12 months after Jyotiraditya Scindia jumped the ship to the saffron get together. While a good quantity of rebels selected to change to different events, a massive part floated their very own events and gave a robust battle to the grand outdated get together. Here’s a look at those that left the Congress get together:
Jayaprakash Narayan
The revolt of Jayaprakash Narayan from the Congress introduced the first-non Congress authorities in India after 30 years of independence. Soon after the Emergency, the Janata Party was fashioned in January 1977 by JP. By March 1977, the first ever non-Congress authorities was fashioned at the Centre.
Chandra Shekhar
Despite being in the grand outdated get together, Chandra Shekhar vehemently criticised former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi for her declaration of Emergency in 1975. He was arrested and despatched to jail throughout the Emergency. He too joined the Janata Party and have become the President of the Janata Party.
Jagjivan Ram
Jagjivan Ram was not as fortunate as many others earlier than and after him. He was the youngest minister in Jawaharlal Nehru’s interim authorities, the first cupboard of India and the member of the Constituent Assembly of India. He was a cupboard minister for a number of years. He remained a member of the Parliament proper from the first election in 1952 until his loss of life in 1986. When he stop the Congress in 1977, simply weeks earlier than the polls, he was the senior-most Minister in Indira Gandhi’s Cabinet.
However, he couldn’t turn into the Prime Minister, regardless of the swap. He served as the Deputy Prime Minister between 1977 and 79. In 1980, the Janata Party contested the polls with Jagjivan Ram as its Prime Ministerial candidate, however the get together received solely 31 seats out of 542.
Morarji Desai
India’s second Deputy Prime Minister stop the Congress throughout the break up of 1969. Morarji Desai joined the INC(O). After the loss of life of Nehru in 1964 and that of Lal Bahadur Shastri in 1966, Desai emerged as a sturdy contender for the PM’s submit. However, he couldn’t get it and Indira Gandhi took the cost. In 1977, Desai was elected as the Prime Minister and have become the first non-Congress Prime Minister of India. In 1979, he was compelled to resign as Raj Narain and Charan Singh left the Janata Party alliance. He retired from politics after that.
Biju Patnaik
Patnaik was near Indira Gandhi. However, they clashed in 1969. He left the Congress and fashioned a regional get together—the Utkal Congress. He served as the Union Minister and Odisha CM.
The Scindias
In 1967, Rajmata Vijaya Raje Scindia resigned from the Congress and contested the Lok Sabha polls from Swatantra Party, which later merged into Bharatiya Lok Dal. Cut to 2020, her grandson Jyotiraditya Scindia resigned from the Congress and joined the BJP – a get together co-founded by his grandmother.
In March 2020, Jyotiraditya joined the BJP alongside together with his loyal MLAs. After being a half of the Congress since 2001, his swap led to the fall of the Kamal Nath authorities in Madhya Pradesh. The former Cabinet Minister below UPA II, Scindia was elected to the Rajya Sabha from Madhya Pradesh in 2020.
Mamata Banerjee
The West Bengal Chief Minister was with the Congress since Nineteen Seventies until 1997. She left the get together on account of distinction in political opinions with the then West Bengal Pradesh Congress Committee president Somendra Nath Mitra. She floated her personal get together — the All India Trinamool Congress in 1998. The TMC is presently the fourth-largest get together in the Lok Sabha with 20 seats and has gained the standing of a nationwide get together. She received the 2011 Assembly polls and have become the chief minister of West Bengal, ending 34-year rule of the Left. She is the second lady in India after Sheila Dikshit to run into third consecutive time period as the CM.
Y. S. Jaganmohan Reddy
In 2010, he stop the Congress and based the YSR Congress Party in 2011. He is presently serving as the Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh.
Himanta Biswa Sarma
Himanta Biswa Sarma, who was with the Congress since the Nineties, joined the BJP in 2015. While he was a Cabinet Minister in the final authorities, he’s presently the Chief Minister of Assam.
Pema Khandu
A Congress chief between 2005 and 2016, Pema Khanu stop the get together to affix the BJP. He is presently the Chief Minister of Arunachal Pradesh.
Rita Bahuguna
She joined BJP in October 2016 after spending 24 years in Congress. She was elected to Lok Sabha in 2019.
N. Biren Singh
The Chief Minister of Manipur, N Biren Singh was with Congress throughout 2004 and 2016. He switched to BJP.
Leaders who returned to Congress
While a number of leaders stop the get together and by no means returned it doesn’t matter what their destiny outdoors was, there have been a quantity of leaders who got here again to the Congress after a break.
Madhavrao Scindia
Late Madhavrao stop the Congress get together in 1996 after he was denied a Lok Sabha ticket. He rebelled and left the Congress to type the Madhya Pradesh Vikas Congress (MPVC). He received the elections. However, the elections produced a hung Parliament. In 1998, he returned to the get together, not like his son and mom, and merged the MPVC with Congress and remained with the get together till he died in 2001.
Pranab Mukherjee
The former President too had left the Congress get together after he felt sidelined below the management of Rajiv Gandhi. Considering himself to be the rightful successor of Indira Gandhi, he rebelled and floated his personal get together in West Bengal in 1986 — the Rashtriya Samajwadi Congress. In 1989, the get together merged with Congress after reaching a consensus with Rajiv Gandhi.
Sucheta Kripalani
After having ideological variations with Nehru, she disassociated herself along with her husband’s get together. However, not like her husband Acharya Kripalani, she re-joined Congress after a transient stint with the Kisan Mazdoor Praja Party (KMPP) in 1952. Acharya Kripalani remained a critic of Nehru’s insurance policies and administration whereas working for social and environmental causes.
Narayan Datt Tiwari, Arjun Singh, Natwar Singh and Rangarajan Kumaramangalam
The leaders floated the All India Indira Congress (Tiwari) in 1996. The get together later merged with the Congress in 1998 when Sonia Gandhi took over the cost of the get together.
Ajoy Kumar
The former Congress Jharkhand chief stop the get together in 2019 and joined AAP. Within a 12 months, in 2020, he got here again to the Congress get together.
Gegong Apang
The Arunachal Pradesh’s longest-serving Chief Minister began his political profession in the early Nineteen Seventies with Congress. After a transient stick with BJP in 2003, he returned to Congress. However, once more in 2014, he stop Congress and re-joined the BJP.
Leaders who had been expelled and survived in politics
Sharad Pawar, P Sangma and Tariq Anwar
In 1999, Sharad Pawar, Tariq Anwar and PA Sangma had been expelled from the Congress for elevating the concern of Sonia Gandhi’s overseas origin. They floated the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP). Tariq Anwar re-joined the INC in 2018.
VP Singh
In 1988, he fashioned the Janata Dal get together by merging varied factions of the Janata Party. In the 1989 elections, the National Front, with the help of the BJP, fashioned the authorities and Singh turned the seventh Prime Minister of India.
Ajit Jogi
Ajit Jogi floated the Janta Congress Chhattisgarh get together in 2016 after the former Chief Minister, alongside together with his son, was expelled from the Congress on account of anti-party actions. Jogi died in 2020.
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