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majority required for amending the Constitution. Although this did not change the balance in the Rajya Sabha which was required for completing the process of amending the Constitution, the sweeping victory culminating in the two-thirds majority in the Lok Sabha appeared to make conditions propitious to change the balance in both Houses in due course. The threat of restoration of the Emergency regime became thus real.
This naturally raised questions concerning the correctness of the line adopted by the Communist Party of India (Marxist) and other Left parties in facilitating the realignment of political forces in the first half of 1979 which led to the fall of the Janata government. While genuine doubts on this score arose in the minds of the millions who supported one or the other Left and democratic party which worked for the realignment of forces, the leaders of the Janata and other bourgeois opposition parties used the fact of the Congress (I) victory, leading to its coming back to power, to denounce the Left and democratic forces. Along with the leaders of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the Janata (JP), a large number of non-party democrats too came to think that the Left and democratic parties had taken a false step at the time of the July crisis. That section of the monopoly press which took an anti-Congress (I) stand joined the chorus.
Crisis of Bourgeois Political System
It has now become clear that this is based on the false assumption that if only the Left and democratic parties had continued to support the Janata, it would have remained in power for the full five-year term for which it had been elected. It failed to see that the disintegration of the Janata had started at least in mid-1978. if not earlier. Subsequently, in the first half of 1979, the Janata party and its government started breaking into pieces. Even those who could not see what was happening either in 1978 or in 1979 can sec now that the former Janata party has split itself into the BJP. the Janata (JP), the Lok Dal, the Janata (S) and so on. The complete political bankruptcy of the individuals and units which came together to form the Janata in 1977 cannot be concealed any more.
Another infcorrect assessment of the critics of the political line pursued by .the Left and democratic forces was that the electoral victory of the Congress (I) in the January 1980 elections meant a full restoration of the old authoritatian set-up. Those who held this view failed to take into consideration the impact of the