short note on Congress party
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It was from 1947 to 2014 and it did much for India it was first ruled by jawaharlalnehru and then started raising it's powers but in 2014 it failed to win in elections
The Indian National Congress ( pronunciation (help·info)) (INC, often called Congress Party) is a broadly based political party in India.[14]Founded in 1885, it was the first modern nationalist movement to emerge in the British Empire in Asia and Africa.[a][15] From the late 19th century, and especially after 1920, under the leadership of Mahatma Gandhi, Congress became the principal leader of the Indian independence movement, with over 15 million members and over 70 million participants.[16] Congress led India to independence from Great Britain,[b][17][c][18] and powerfully influenced other anti-colonial nationalist movements in the British Empire.[d][15]
Congress is a secular party whose social liberal platform is generally considered to be on the centre-left of Indian politics.[19] Congress' social policy is based upon the Gandhian principle of Sarvodaya—the lifting up of all sections of society—which involves the improvement of the lives of economically underprivileged and socially marginalised people.[20] The party primarily endorses social liberalism—seeking to balance individual liberty and social justice, and secularism—asserting the right to be free from religious rule and teachings.
After India's independence in 1947, Congress formed the central government of India, and many regional state governments.[21] Congress became India's dominant political party; as of 2015, in the 15 general elections since independence, it has won an outright majority on six occasions and has led the ruling coalition a further four times, heading the central government for 49 years. There have been seven Congress Prime Ministers, the first being Jawaharlal Nehru (1947–1964), and the most recent Manmohan Singh (2004–2014). Although it did not fare well in the last general elections in India in 2014, it remains one of two major, nationwide, political parties in India, along with the right-wing, Hindu nationalist, Bharatiya Janata Party(BJP).[e][22] In the 2014 general election, Congress had its poorest post-independence general election performance, winning only 44 seats of the 543-member Lok Sabha.
From 2004 to 2014, the Congress-led United Progressive Alliance, a coalition of several regional parties, formed the Indian government, and was headed by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. The leader of the party during the period, Sonia Gandhi has served the longest term as the president of the party. As of May 2018, the party is in power in four legislative assemblies: Punjab, Mizoram, Karnataka (in an alliance with the JD (S)), and the union territory of Puducherry.