Editing Indian National Congress (section)

====Formation of Congress (I)====
On 2 January 1978, Indira and her followers seceded and formed a new opposition party, popularly called Congress&nbsp;(I)—the "I" signifying Indira.<ref name="Buffalo state">{{cite web | title= Indira Gandhi: India's Destined Leader| url=https://digitalcommons.buffalostate.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1022&context=history_theses | access-date=13 February 2025}}</ref><ref name="IE">{{cite web | title=February 3, 1978, Forty Years Ago: Hand For Congress (I) | website=The Indian Express | date=3 February 2018 | url=https://indianexpress.com/article/opinion/editorials/february-3-1978-forty-years-ago-hand-for-congress-i-5049516/ | access-date=13 February 2025}}</ref><ref>"On 1 and 2 January dissidents led by Indira Gandhi staged convention of what they claimed was "the real Congress." Mrs. Gandhi was elected President of the body, which promptly laid claim to the offices, funds and even the electoral symbol of the Indian National Congress. These claims were, unsurprisingly, resisted by Y.B. Chavan and his group, who had controlled Congress since the I977 election. Initial reports varied but it seemed that no more than a third of the State Congress Committees sided with the Indira Gandhi faction." {{cite journal |last=Mendelsohn |first=Oliver |title=The Collapse of the Indian National Congress |journal=Pacific Affairs |volume=58 |number=1 |year=1978 |page=65 |doi=10.2307/2757008 |jstor=2757008}}</ref> During the next year, her new party attracted enough members of the legislature to become the official opposition.<ref name="Basu2016">{{cite book|last1=Basu |first1=Manisha |title=The Rhetoric of Hindutva|year=2016 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=978-1-107-14987-8 |pages=73– |url={{Google books|E7gtDQAAQBAJ |page=PA73|plainurl=yes}}}}</ref> In November 1978, Gandhi regained a parliamentary seat. In January 1980, following a [[1980 Indian general election|landslide victory]] for Congress&nbsp;(I), she was again elected prime minister.<ref name="1980 report">{{cite web |title=Statistical report general elections, 1980 |website=eci.nic.in |publisher=[[Election Commission of India]] |url=http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/statisticalreports/LS_1980/Vol_I_LS_80.pdf |access-date=25 June 2014 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140718175926/http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/LS_1980/Vol_I_LS_80.pdf |archive-date=18 July 2014}}</ref> The national election commission declared Congress&nbsp;(I) to be the real Indian National Congress for the [[1984 Indian general election|1984 general election]].<ref name="IE 1984">{{cite web | last=Yadav | first=Shyamlal | title=1980 Lok Sabha elections: Triumph and tragedy of Indira Gandhi | website=The Indian Express | date=17 May 2024 | url=https://indianexpress.com/article/explained/a-history-of-lok-sabha-elections-indiras-triumph-tragedy-9314864/ | access-date=13 February 2025}}</ref> However, the designation I was dropped only in 1996.<ref name="Basu2016" /><ref name="1980 report" />