Nationalist Congress Party
The Nationalist Congress Party ( NCP) (Hindi: राष्ट्रवादी कॉँग्रेस पक्ष, rāṣṭrabādī kȏṅgres Paksa ) is a political party in India. It was created in 1999 as a splinter group of the Congress Party, with an emphasis in the state of Maharashtra.
History
The Nationalist Congress Party was founded on 25 May 1999 by Sharad Pawar, Sangma and Tariq Anwar Purno Agitok after they had been expelled from the Congress party on 20 May 1999 because they were opposed to the choice of the Italian-born Sonia Gandhi, the party leader. At the time of the founding was also the Indian Congress ( Socialist ) Party, which had been founded in 1977-78, on the neugründeten party. However Sangma left the NCP in 2004 due to differences with Sharad Pawar and in opposition to the close of this represented the NCP alliance with the Congress Party and allied with the All India Trinamool Congress, another spin-off of the Congress Party in West Bengal. Meanwhile, however, he is back in the NCP as its general secretary active.
The NCP sees itself as a party that enters by his own admission for democracy and a secular society in the tradition of Gandhi, social justice and federalism and national unity. The party sees itself as an alternative to the Congress Party and the Hindu Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP ).
The political priorities of the NCP are in the state of Maharashtra. Here she is with 62 of 288 seats in Parliament, the second strongest force behind the Congress Party, with which it forms a coalition government. Except in Maharashtra, the NCP is also represented in the states of Arunachal Pradesh, Gujarat, Kerala, Manipur, Meghalaya, Nagaland, Odisha and Uttar Pradesh in Parliament. Here, however, it plays only a minor role with one to five members.
At the all-India election to Lok Sabha 2009, the NCP received 8.5 million votes nationwide ( 2.04 percent) and won (as in the 2004 election ) nine seats ( 1.7 percent; eight seats in Maharashtra, one in Meghalaya ). In the then formed coalition government under Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, the NCP made two ministerial posts.
Previous election results
Is, except in Maharashtra and the NCP was also represented with a few MPs in other federal parliaments.