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The Indian National Congress (Urs) was a breakaway faction of the Congress (I) led by D. Devaraj Urs. It broke away from the parent party in 1978 following Indira Gandhi’s drubbing in the 1977 General Elections. Urs took with him many legislators from Karnataka Kerala Maharashtra and Goa including future Union Ministers and Chief Ministers Yashwantrao Chavan Dev Kant Baruah Kasu Brahmananda Reddy A.K. Antony Sharad Pawar Sarat Chandra Sinha Priyaranjan Das Munshi and K.P. Unnikrishnan.