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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, 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.

Help us imagine, Rahulji

Shekhar Gupta - December 14, 2013

Shekhar Gupta argues that for a rapidly declining and self-destructive Congress to rejuvenate, change should first come from the top, i,.e., the Gandhi family.

Or else, Modi

Shekhar Gupta - November 16, 2013

The Congress cannot win a third term just by scaring us all of Modi. Because 2014 is a far cry from 1984. And because we are not scared of Modi, even those who won’t vote for him.

The Congress’s Modi

Shekhar Gupta - September 7, 2013

Narendra Modi, a divisive and polarising figure, is as much a candidate of the Congress as the BJP: it is just that one is trying to make him win, and the other to make him lose.

Scared witless

Shekhar Gupta - August 10, 2013

The weak and perennially nervous UPA-2 government has often let mere incidents and talking-head outrage panic itself into policy disasters.

The deformists

Shekhar Gupta - July 20, 2013

While Congress subverted and then totally overwhelmed our political economy, BJP’s intellectually bankrupt response raises serious questions on its claims as our second largest party.

Lose-Lose

Shekhar Gupta - July 13, 2013

Congress knows it cannot repeat its 2009 performance. It simply does not have a track record. So what do you do if you know you cannot win?

Not enough, boss

Shekhar Gupta - April 6, 2013

Since we do not have an insight into Rahul Gandhi’s mind yet, here is our list of what could possibly be called the three mistakes of his political life.

Still Mandal, still mandir

Shekhar Gupta - March 2, 2013

Mandir and Mandal are the last big ideas to alter our national power equations. Since then, nobody has been able to catch India’s imagination.

One dynasty dimming

Shekhar Gupta - February 23, 2013

The inability to counter or challenge the rise of new political dynasties is the Congress party's biggest failure.

First family, second nature

Shekhar Gupta - October 13, 2012

What is it about the Congress that the moment a member of the Gandhi family is attacked, it loses its political judgment, instinct, discretion? It ceases to respond like a political party.

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