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Indian National Congress is the only political party in India, which has experience of running the state government of every Indian states in post-independence Indian history. From the first general election in 1952 when Jawaharlal Nehru led it to a landslide victory, the Congress won in the majority of the following state elections and paved ...
Gandhiji dominated the Indian freedom struggle from 1919 to 1948. That is why this period is known as the Gandhian era in Indian history. During this time, Mahatma Gandhi dominated the Indian National Congress, which in turn was at the forefront of the Indian freedom struggle. Gandhi joined in 1915 and left the Indian National Congress in 1923.
Allan Octavian Hume, CB ICS (4 June 1829 [1] – 31 July 1912 [2]) was a British political reformer, ornithologist, civil servant and botanist who worked in British India and was the founding spirit and key founder of the Indian National Congress. He was a proponent of Indian self-rule and strongly supported the idea of Indian independence.
The national president of the Indian National Congress is the chief executive of the Indian National Congress (INC), one of the principal political parties in India. [1] Constitutionally, the president is elected by an electoral college composed of members drawn from the Pradesh Congress Committees and members of the All India Congress ...
Since independence, the Indian National Congress has participated in elections, Lok Sabha and Vidhan Sabha. This article shows a list of the results of the elections for Congress. This article shows a list of the results of the elections for Congress.
The British Committee of the Indian National congress was an organization established in Britain by the Indian National Congress in 1889. [1] Its purpose was to raise awareness of Indian issues to the public in Britain, to whom the Government of India was responsible. [1]
The Indian National Congress (Organisation) also known as Congress (O) or Syndicate/Old Congress was a political party in India formed when the Congress party split following the expulsion of Indira Gandhi. On 12 November 1969, the Prime Minister of India Indira Gandhi was expelled from
After 1996, Congress (I) dropped the suffix Indira from its name, while Congress (O) merged with parties like the Bharatiya Jana Sangh to form the Janata Party. Other parties split from Congress(R) party included Congress for Democracy by Jagjivan Ram and Indian National Congress (Urs) [15] by D. Devaraj Urs.