Lok Sabha, Congress member Pradyut Bordoloi claimed that the income tax measure announced in the budget will benefit only 2 per cent of the countrys population. There are no major interventions to curb inflation, he said. Bordoloi asked the government to expand and strengthen food security, ...
Amitabh SrivastavaUday Mahurkar
(People’s) Partyscored a landslide victory over the Congress Party, winning 295 seats in theLok Sabha(the lower chamber of India’s parliament) against 153 for the Congress; Gandhi herself lost to her Janata opponent. On January 2, 1978, she and her followers seceded and formed a new ...