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Indian National Congress Group 1

FA-IV Project

Serial No. Topic

1 Certificate

2 Acknowledgement

3 Introduction

4 When was the party formed

5 History

6 What happened in 2009

7 Important members of Congress

8 Prime Ministers of Congress

9 Conclusion

10 Bibliography

This is to certify that the project work satisfactorily carried out in the group for FA-II. And hence, recorded in this file is the bonafied work of group no. consisting of members: Rishabh, Kartik, Hriday,Himanshu and Abhijith of class X during the Academic year 2012-13.

Teacher in charge Date Principal

Special thanks to Mrs.Nisha madam for her guidance and her support. She helped throughout the project. We thank our subject teacher for her support. We thank our group members for their contribution and cooperation for making

this project. This Project was made from the support and contribution of our group members. So we will thank each one of us.

The Indian National Congress is one of the two major political parties in India. It is the largest and one of the oldest democratically-operating political parties in the world. The party's modern liberal platform is largely considered centre-left wing in Indian political spectrum

Founded in 1885 by members of the occultist movement Theosophical Society Allan Octavian Hume, Dadabhai Naoroji, Dinshaw Wacha, Womesh Chandra Bonnerjee, Surendranath Banerjee, Monomohun Ghose, Mahadev

Govind Ranade] and William Wedderburn the Indian National Congress became a pivotal participant in the Indian Independence Movement, with over 15 million members and over 70 million participants in its struggle against British colonial rule in India. After independence in 1947, it

became the nation's dominant political party, led by the Nehru-Gandhi family for the most part; major challenges for party leadership have only recently formed.

With the rise of Mahatma Gandhi's popularity and his Satyagraha art of revolution came Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel ,Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru , Dr. Rajendra Prasad , Khan Mohammad Abbas Khan, Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan , Chakravarti Rajgopalachari ,   Dr .

Narayan Sinha,Jayaprakash Narayan,  and Maulana Abul Kalam Azad . With the already existing nationalistic feeling combined with Gandhi's popularity, the Congress became a forceful and dominant group of people in the

country, bringing together millions of people by specifically working against caste differences, untouchability, poverty, and religious and ethnic boundaries.

In the 2009 general elections, the Congress emerged as the single largest party in the Lok Sabha, with 206 of its candidates getting elected to the 543-member house. Consequently it, as a member of a coalition of political organisations

called the United Progressive Alliance (UPA), was able to gain a majority and form the government.

Mahatma GandhiMahatma Gandhi, was the preeminent leader of Indian nationalism in British-ruled India. Employing non -violent civil disobedience, Gandhi led India to independence and inspired movements for

non-violence, civil rights and freedom across the world. He became the leader of Indian National Congress in 1921, Gandhi led nationwide campaigns for easing

poverty, expanding women's rights, building religious and ethnic amity, ending untouchability, increasing economic self-reliance, and above all for achieving Swaraj—the independence of India from British domination.

Jawaharlal Nehru, the first Congress Indira Gandhi, thrice Prime

Prime Minister of India Minister of India.

Sonia Gandhi Kamaraj

was president

President of Indian National Congress of All India Congress Committee

Jawaharlal Nehru (1947–1964) Gulzarilal Nanda (May–June 1964 and in January

1966) Lal Bahadur Shastri (1964–1966) Indira Gandhi (1966–1977, 1980–1984) Rajiv Gandhi (1984–1989) P.V. Narasimha Rao (1991–1996) Manmohan Singh (2004–2014)

Congress Ruled States in Green

INC advocates neo-liberal policies including populism, social liberalism, secularism and free enterprise with government regulations such as public–private partnership (PPP) model. As a political party, the INC has publicised its intentions to do all it can to reduce poverty, illiteracy and strongly supports the weaker section of the society.

A Congress rally in New Delhi.

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India: National Book Struggle