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Topic: Congress

Congress or the Indian National Congress (INC) is one of two major political parties in India. It was founded in 1885 and played a leading role in India’s Independence movement. It has ruled during most of India’s independent years and gave the country its first prime minister, Jawaharlal Nehru. Leadership of the Congress too has been dominated by the Nehru-Gandhi family.

The Congress is a center-left party, and lists on its website democracy, nationalism, secularism, inclusive growth and social justice as its core values. It last ruled India between 2004 and 2014, but has since lost its sway, being reduced to just 52 seats in the 2019 General Elections. INDIA, the alliance headed by Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge, is an attempt to bring together opposition parties against the BJP government for the 2024 Lok Sabha elections.

Smirks that speak and a doctor with no prescription

Shekhar Gupta - 29 February, 2012

Congress has a Very Angry Young Man, BJP has too many angry old men.

Blunder Janata Party

Shekhar Gupta - 7 January, 2012

In its UP campaign, BJP has displayed all the weaknesses usually chronic to Congress: lack of a clear CM candidate, infighting, absence of a grassroots organisation & agenda.

House of hubris

Shekhar Gupta - 31 December, 2011

The Congress' arrogance and mismanagement has broken Indian politics and, even worse, shows no signs of improvement.

Self-opposition party

Shekhar Gupta - 26 November, 2011

The BJP’s entire politics today seems predicated upon the inevitability of the Congress party’s self-destruction.

The Aam Anna Aadmi

Shekhar Gupta - 20 August, 2011

The times when you could rule India without its urban middle class are now over. The key pivots of democratic governance, bureaucracy, judiciary and media, all come from this class.

Jan Lok Sabha

Shekhar Gupta - 30 July, 2011

Before the next Parliamentary session, it is important to analyse the scandals, cover-ups and popular anger around the Lokpal Bill that threatened to collapse the system.

The out, their rage

Shekhar Gupta - 11 June, 2011

Rajiv Gandhi to V.P. Singh, India has looked even more anarchic and furious than it does now.

Minus the Left

Shekhar Gupta - 12 March, 2011

If the elections in West Bengal, Assam, Tamil Nadu, Kerala and Puducherry go the way they are headed right now, they could potentially alter our national political equations, and set a much more interesting stage for 2014.

Constant Congressman

Shekhar Gupta - 5 March, 2011

Arjun Singh, Rajiv Gandhi’s most trusted political lieutenant, is too layered and fascinating a political figure to describe in one article. But of his more interesting personality aspects is how seriously he took the media.

Lok Sabha, 2014

Shekhar Gupta - 26 February, 2011

A party will win or lose the next election depending on whether it can dump some of its awful, outdated and politically suicidal basic instinct or not.

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