As the largest democratic party in the world, the Congress party, through an internal election process - in which an electoral college comprising of 9,000 party delegates from different blocks of India -endorsed Rahul Gandhi as the party president. The Congress Party was a moderate reform party until.
By 1996 the party’s image was suffering from various reports of corruption, and in elections that year the Congress Party was reduced to 140 seats, its lowest number in the Lok Sabha to that point, becoming parliament. In December 2017, after 19 years of service and leadership given to Congress, party president Sonia Gandhi made way for the new President. Indian National Congress, or Congress Party, Broadly based political party of India, founded in 1885. Indian National Congress - Indian National Congress - The party since 1991: In contrast to the party’s historical socialist policies, Rao embraced economic liberalization. The RTI act of 2005 was also this party’s brainchild. It is known for introducing Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) and has managed to initiate some important social policies like the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee (MNREGA) and National Rural Health Mission (NRHM) under a coalition government of United Progressive Alliance (UPA). Organisations like the zamindari association (1837), British India Association (1851), Pune Sarvajanik Sabha (1867), Bombay Presidency Association (1885) etc came up in India. The INC follows Gandhi’s methods of socialism and social democracy. Formation of Indian National Congress aims and objectives The establishment of Congress was preceded by several regional, provincial and sub-national organisations in various parts of India. Then it returned to power for two consecutive terms under Manmohan Singh. After Independence, the party was in power for five consecutive terms under the leadership of Jawaharlal Nehru and Indira Gandhi, until the 1975 Emergency.Īfter that, it could not keep up the continuity till 2004. The part back then played a crucial role in fighting for India’s independence. The INC was founded by in 1885 by the then prominent leaders, Allan Octavian Hume, Dadabhai Naoroji and Dinshaw Wacha.
The party is currently in opposition to the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party at the center. The Indian National Congress (INC), generally referred as Congress, is one of the major political parties in India. India had its first general election in 1951, which was won by the Indian National Congress, a political party that went on to dominate subsequent elections until 1977, when a non-Congress government was formed for the first time in independent India.