In December he led the Congress Party to an overwhelming victory in which it secured 401 seats in the legislature. In 1982 her son Rajiv Gandhi ( Gandhi, Rajiv) became nominal head of the party, and, upon her assassination in October 1984, he became prime minister. In November 1979 Gandhi regained a parliamentary seat, and the following year she was again elected prime minister. Over the next year, her new party attracted enough members of the legislature to become the official opposition, and in 1981 the national election commission declared it the “real” Indian National Congress. 2, 1978, she and her followers seceded and formed a new opposition party, popularly called Congress (I)-the “I” signifying Indira. In the parliamentary elections held in March 1977, the opposition Janata Party scored a landslide victory over the Congress Party, winning 295 seats in the Lok Sabha (the lower house of India's Parliament) against 153 for the Congress Gandhi herself lost to her Janata opponent. From 1975 Gandhi's government grew increasingly more authoritarian, and unrest among the opposition grew. In the mid-1970s the New Congress Party's popular support began to fracture.
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