Indian political party
Political party in India
The Indian National Congress (U) was a breakaway fraction of the Indira Gandhi -led Congress (I) , formed in July 1979 by D. Devaraj Urs , the then Chief Minister of Karnataka . Urs' explanation of the split was the return of Indira's son Sanjay Gandhi into the party fold. Urs took with him many legislators from Karnataka , Kerala , Maharashtra and Goa including future Union Ministers and Chief Ministers , Yashwantrao Chavan , Dev Kant Baruah , Kasu Brahmananda Reddy , A.K. Antony , Sharad Pawar , Sarat Chandra Sinha , Priyaranjan Das Munshi and K. P. Unnikrishnan .
Subsequently, Devaraj Urs joined Janata Party ; Yashwantrao Chavan, Brahmananda Reddy, and Chidambaram Subramaniam joined Congress (Indira) ; and A. K. Antony split from Congress (U) to form Congress (A) in Kerala . When Sharad Pawar took over the party presidency in October 1981, the name of the party was changed to Indian Congress (Socialist) .[ 2]
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