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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 idea of Indira

Shekhar Gupta - October 21, 2009

Mrs Gandhi was no doctrinaire figure, with all her wisdom or ideas inherited from her father. She changed and evolved, often for the better, sometimes not quite so

Remember, don’t forget

SGIN - June 6, 2009

Leaders who have won the mandate, Sonia, Manmohan Singh, Rahul, would do well to remember a tough lesson of 1984: trust your instinct, do not flinch from change & a legacy of success is yours.

Will the bully now do what bullies usually do when their bluff is called?

SGIN - August 12, 2007

A deadly combination of political inexperience, ideological rigidity and personal hubris has brought the King Canutes of the Left to an interesting turning point.

The Ordinance Factory

Shekhar Gupta - December 31, 2005

The ordinance-mania is back in fashion. The recourse to amending the law or writing fresh legislation is a tempting escape for politicians from constitutional checks and balances.

And the pot told the kettle

SGIN - May 14, 2005

There has been a continuing slide into politics of inquiries, where governance is in the back-seat, political debate forgotten & acquisition of power reduced to trying to fix your rivals.

One year on, BJP and Congress still can’t figure out the election result

Shekhar Gupta - May 8, 2005

Opposition is out of Parliament almost permanently, as was the case in the last months of Rajiv Gandhi's government. The two leading parties are not even on talking terms any more.

We need a UPA-NDA bus?

SGIN - April 9, 2005

If the BJP's scandalously peevish staying away from VAT was bad, so was the Congress party's disinclination to expand the scope of the launch of the Kashmir bus.

UPA needs an MBA (Coalition)

Shekhar Gupta - July 17, 2004

Congress can legitimately claim it’s been too busy putting the government together, but it cannot carry on by giving an impression that the Left is being excluded, ignored or taken for granted.

When unleaded turns leaded

SGIN - August 10, 2002

When ‘polarisation’ is the buzzword in our politics, it will be even more dangerous than communal divide because it will undermine the faith in our system of governance, democracy.

Doing the ‘Right’ thing

SGIN - May 25, 2002

A government’s internal stability or strength does not always determine its ability to deal with the world, particularly on issues where there is broader consensus.

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Topic: Congress

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