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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, was an attempt to bring together opposition parties against the BJP government for the 2024 Lok Sabha elections.

Together, the INDIA Alliance secured 238 of the 543 seats in the Lok Sabha. The Congress won 99 of these.

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Ruhi Tewari -
Congress has become a sleepwalking opposition party, showing no signs of wanting to seriously reinvent itself.

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Shekhar Gupta -
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Our 10, Drowning Street

Shekhar Gupta -
No, Congress isn't dead yet; it has become two distinct parties, one of the durbar, other of the field, and if they keep drifting apart, death is a certainty.

Why BJP has more lessons to learn about governance

Shekhar Gupta -
Post assembly-polls, Narendra Modi should not miss the opportunity to change course and discourse, from combat to governance.

Five predictable results make for an uncertain 2019

Shekhar Gupta -
BJP's leadership has earned itself a post-Bihar reprieve, but it hasn't brought them a more convincing nationwide claim in 2019.

Don’t smile too much, Congress

Shekhar Gupta -
The post-Bihar "revival" of the Congress is limited to the front pages - the party's secular decline has not been reversed.

A heartland-rending tussle

Shekhar Gupta -
Why and how the BJP and the Congress respond to the faith-versus-caste debate will still shape politics.

Back to future on a postage stamp

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Why RSS/BJP's war against Nehru & heirs is as cussed as it is revealing about their lack of alternative heroes.

Makeover at 44

Shekhar Gupta -
Whatever Rahul Gandhi was doing during his sabbatical, he has rid himself of fatal flaws for a mass politician: shying from eye contact and building an image of flightiness.

Why didn’t you want to resign, Dr Singh?

Shekhar Gupta -
Let's ask why our former PM let Congress undermine his authority and that of his office.
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