Indian National Congress

The Indian National Congress (INC ) (English Indian National Congress), also known as the Congress Party, was the leading movement of the Indian struggle for independence. It is recognized as a National Party of India. The Congress Party was until the late 1990s as the all-India party, numerous other mainly regional parties arising from spin-offs of the Congress Party.

History

The Congress party is a jointly established in 1885 in Pune by Hindus and Muslims Indian party. The actual founding meeting took place from 28 - 30th December 1885 held in Mumbai. Because of the growing influence of the Hindus in the INC came in 1906 establishing the rival Muslim League. The Indian National Congress was also, under the leadership of Bal Gangadhar Tilak, burdened with conflicts between the moderate wing led by Gopal Krishna Gokhale, and the radical wing. So it was in 1907 to split the Congress Party. The moderate wing now called an annual meeting an alternative, the All India Congress Committee, which henceforth became the main decision-making body of the National Congress. Indian National Congress and Muslim League jointly authored in 1916 a statement with demands for Indian independence. This was answered by the British government in August 1917 with a political declaration of intent, India concede a gradual transition to self-government. Under the leadership of Mohandas Gandhi, there was in the interwar period to non-violent resistance against British rule in the war called Subhash Chandra Bose for armed struggle and founded with Japanese help Liberation Army and counter-government. Gandhi was concerned, this is the political unity between Hindus and Muslims. Under the name of All India Congress Jawaharlal Nehru and Mohandas Gandhi finally won after 1945 the country's independence. They could not prevent the partition of the Indian subcontinent in the predominantly inhabited by Hindus in India and the Muslim state of Pakistan in the Indus and the Ganges mouth but.

After India's independence, the Congress Party introduced starting with Jawaharlal Nehru Prime Minister until 1978 all of the country. 1969 left a group of members of Congress, the party and formed the smaller Indian National Congress organization (U). Radical movements gained a foothold in the party. Baiting became the party's program, which ended too many riots with many ethnic groups in India. The party was at this time and to this day the catch-all for social Failed. Feed they got mainly of unemployed peasants and members of the lowest caste. In the parliamentary election in March 1977, emerged from various opposition groups Janata Party won a clear victory over the Congress Party Indira Gandhi. In 1978, the Congress party split again when Indira Gandhi in the course of internal party disputes the Indian National Congress Indira (I) founded, which was in 1981 officially recognized by the Supreme Court as the Congress Party. The Congress party won the parliamentary election in 1980 and Indira Gandhi was Prime Minister again. After her assassination in 1984, her son Rajiv Gandhi was prime minister until 1989. PV Narasimha Rao served as representatives of the Indian Congress Party Prime Minister of 1991 to 1996. During the general election of 2004, the now led by Sonia Gandhi opposition Congress Party scored an unexpected victory. However, she was attacked in the press because of their strong Italian heritage. Surprisingly for her party coalition, she leaned from it therefore, to accept the post of Prime Minister, Manmohan Singh was sworn in on 22 May 2004 as the Prime Minister. The standing under his leadership, government was able to maintain its majority in the parliamentary election in 2009 and significantly expanded.