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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.

The out, their rage

Shekhar Gupta - June 11, 2011

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

Minus the Left

Shekhar Gupta - March 12, 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 - March 5, 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 - February 26, 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A party will win or lose the next election depending on whether it can dump some of its awful, outdated and politically suicidal basic instinct or not.

Thank god for politics

SGIN - February 19, 2011

While the charmed circle mourns the end of the idea of India because of political corruption, incompetence & cynicism, it is exactly our politics that is transforming India in a most remarkable manner now.

The ides of February

Shekhar Gupta - February 12, 2011

UPA 2 has been cursed by its own inbuilt contradictions and conflicting ambitions, and for once the allies take no blame for this.

There are two Congresses

Shekhar Gupta - December 25, 2010

The larger argument is not about the political resurrection of a long-demised individual, but about whose achievements the Congress party of today goes to the voter with.

UPA’s meteoric fall

Shekhar Gupta - December 18, 2010

When it comes to political and strategic intellect, the Congress is blessed with an embarrassment of riches.

1984, one lesson

SGIN - June 12, 2010

Brilliance of the idea of National Security Guard lay in the fact that you could use might & resources of armed forces in an internal situation without exposing the Army as an institution.

No silence, please

Shekhar Gupta - January 9, 2010

A major problem of the Congress-led UPA-II government is its inability to talk to the people, either to explain its actions or create public opinion to back policy decisions it intends to take.

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