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Left-Congress Love Story at the backyard of JNU

1- In Nov 1969 there was a split in Congress. Syndicate lead by K.Kamaraj left with 68 MPs

2- Left Supported Indira Gandhi and saved her minority Govt

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Left-Congress Love Story at the backyard of JNU

3- JNU came at the same time when CPI supported Indira’s minority Govt

4- In the bargain Indira’s Edu Minister Syed Narul Hasan turned JNU red with pro-CPI teachers

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Left-Congress Love Story at the backyard of JNU

5- JNU came out of clutches of left briefly after Indira lost in 1977

6- Morarji’s edu minister Triguna Sen started cleaning JNU of card-carrying communists

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7- Prof Hasan’s strong dominance over university-faculty-recruitment system in the country established during Indira era remained even during Morarji govt

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Left-Congress Love Story at the backyard of JNU

8- During Morarji’s Govt Jan Sangh members led the ideological war against JNU’s left ideology, while Govt attempted revising curriculums

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Left-Congress Love Story at the backyard of JNU

9- Indira came to power in 1980, and restored JNU’s left DNA

10- Sanjay Gandhi waged war against communists but after his death they were back in force again

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Left-Congress Love Story at the backyard of JNU

11- In 2016, @RahulGandhi stood shoulder to shoulder with JNU’s Tukde-Tukde leftist sloganeers
Left-Congress Love Story at the backyard of JNU

12- Congress frequently inducted JNU’s Left student leaders in the party. @priyankagandhi indicted sr. left student leaders frm JNU - Mohit Pandey & Sandeep Singh in her Team

Thus Left-Congress 💕 continues at the backyard of JNU
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