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Indira Gandhiji had taken a risky approach. She turned a power fight into an ideological conflict. She started a series of attempts to shift the government's policy to the left. In May 1967, she convinced the Congress Working Committee to establish a Ten Point Program. Social control of banks, nationalisation of General Insurance, a cap on urban property and income, public food distribution, land reforms, and the giving of housing sites to the rural poor were all part of this agenda. While the leaders of the Syndicate nominally supported this Left-wing scheme, they had severe doubts about it.
She also announced a number of significant and popular policy changes, including the nationalisation of fourteen major private banks and the repeal of the 'privy purse,' or special privileges granted to former princes. Morarji Desai was the Finance Minister and Deputy Prime Minister of India. She advocated for a positive agenda encapsulated in the iconic term Garibi Hatao (Remove Poverty). She emphasised the expansion of the public sector, the setting of a ceiling on rural land holdings and urban property, the reduction of income and opportunity gaps, and the elimination of princely privileges.
Indira Gandhi attempted to build a support base among the poor through Garibi Hatao, particularly among landless labourers, Dalits, Adivasis, minorities, women, and unemployed youth. Indira Gandhi's political strategy of developing an independent nationwide political support base included the phrase Garibi Hatao and the programme that followed it.
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