Study the picture given below and answer the questions that follow: 1. When did cartoon appear in the newspaper and why?

Question

Study the picture given below and answer the questions that follow:

1. When did cartoon appear in the newspaper and why?

2. Identify the person behind Indira Gandhi.

3. Identify what does the ‘Political Crisis’ stand for. Explain.

Answer 1

1. This cartoon appeared few days before the declaration of emergency to capture the sense of an impending political crisis.

2. The then Congress president D.K. Barooah.

3. A political crisis in 1977 made the party system in India look like a two-party system i.e. Congress and nonCongress to end one-party dominance and emergence of non-Congress party Janata Party as an umbrella for others