Indian National Congress

Group 1
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Certificate
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Acknowledgement
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Introduction
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When was the party
4 formed
History
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What happened in 2009
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Important members of
7 Congress
Prime Ministers of
8 Congress
Conclusion
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Bibliography
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The Indian National Congress
is one of the two major
political parties in India. It is
the largest and one of the
oldest democratically-
operating political parties in
the world. The party's
modern
liberal
platform is
largely
considered
centre-left
wing in
Indian political spectrum
Founded in 1885 by members of the occultist movement
Theosophical Society Allan Octavian Hume, Dadabhai
Naoroji, Dinshaw Wacha, Womesh Chandra Bonnerjee,
Surendranath Banerjee, Monomohun Ghose, Mahadev
Govind Ranade] and William
Wedderburn the Indian
National Congress became a
pivotal participant in the Indian
Independence Movement, with
over 15 million members and
over 70 million participants in
its struggle against British
colonial rule in India. After
independence in 1947, it
became the nation's dominant political party, led by the
Nehru-Gandhi family for the most part; major
challenges for party leadership have only recently
formed.
With the rise of Mahatma Gandhi's popularity and
his Satyagraha art of revolution came Sardar
Vallabhbhai Patel,Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru , Dr. Rajendra
Prasad , Khan Mohammad Abbas Khan, Khan Abdul
Ghaffar Khan, Chakravarti Rajgopalachari , Dr .
Narayan
Sinha,Jayaprakash
Narayan, and Maulana
Abul Kalam Azad. With
the already existing
nationalistic feeling
combined with
Gandhi's popularity,
the Congress became a
forceful and dominant
group of people in the
country, bringing together millions of people by
specifically working against caste differences,
untouchability, poverty, and religious and ethnic
boundaries.
In the 2009 general elections, the
Congress emerged as the single
largest party in the Lok Sabha, with
206 of its candidates getting
elected to the 543-member house.
Consequently it, as a member of a
coalition of political organisations
called the
United
Progressive
Alliance
(UPA), was
able to gain a
majority and
form the
government.
 Mahatma
Gandhi
Mahatma Gandhi, was the preeminent
leader of Indian nationalism in British-ruled
India. Employing non -violent civil
disobedience, Gandhi led India to
independence and inspired movements for
non-violence, civil
rights and freedom
across the world. He
became the leader of
Indian National
Congress in 1921,
Gandhi led
nationwide
campaigns for easing
poverty, expanding women's rights,
building religious and ethnic amity,
ending untouchability, increasing economic
self-reliance, and above all for
achieving Swaraj—the independence of
India from British domination.
 Jawaharlal
Nehru, the first Congress Indira Gandhi, thrice Prime

Prime Minister of India Minister of India.

Sonia
Gandhi Kamaraj
was president

President of Indian National Congress of All India Congress Committee

 Jawaharlal Nehru (1947–1964)
 Gulzarilal Nanda (May–June 1964 and in January
1966)
 Lal Bahadur Shastri (1964–1966)
 Indira Gandhi (1966–1977, 1980–1984)
 Rajiv Gandhi (1984–1989)
 P.V. Narasimha Rao (1991–1996)
 Manmohan Singh (2004–2014)

Congress Ruled States in Green

INC advocates neo-liberal policies including populism,
social liberalism, secularism and free enterprise with
government regulations such as public–private
partnership (PPP) model. As a political party, the INC has
publicised its intentions to do all it can to reduce
poverty, illiteracy and strongly supports the weaker
section of the society.

A
Congress rally in
New Delhi.
www.google.com
www.wikipedia.com
Bipan Chandra, Barun De. Freedom
Struggle.
 India: National Book Struggle