what was the agenda of INC for the elections held in the year 2004
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General elections were held in India in four phases between 20 April and 10 May 2004. Over 670 million people were eligible to vote, electing 543 members of the 14th Lok Sabha. Seven states also held assembly elections to elect state governments.
2004 Indian general election
← 1999 20 April, 26 April, 5 and 10 May 2004 2009 →
543 of the 545 seats in the Lok Sabha
272 seats needed for a majority
Turnout
58.07% (Decrease1.92%)[1]
Sonia Gandhi (cropped).jpg Atal Bihari Vajpayee.jpg
Leader Sonia Gandhi Atal Bihari Vajpayee
Party INC BJP
Alliance UPA NDA
Leader since 19 March 1998 16 May 1996
Leader's seat Raebareli Lucknow
Last election 28.30%, 114 seats 23.75%, 182 seats
Seats won 145 138
Seat change Increase 31 Decrease 44
Popular vote 103,408,949 86,371,561
Percentage 26.53% 22.16%
Swing Decrease 1.77pp Decrease 1.59pp
Wahlergebnisse Indien 2004.svg
Prime Minister before election
Atal Bihari Vajpayee
BJP
Subsequent Prime Minister
Manmohan Singh
INC
Polling dates
On 13 May the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), the lead party of the National Democratic Alliance conceded defeat. The Indian National Congress, which had governed India for all but five years from independence until 1996, returned to power after a record eight years out of office. It was able to put together a comfortable majority of more than 335 members out of 543 with the help of its allies. The 335 members included both the Congress-led United Progressive Alliance, the governing coalition formed after the election, as well as external support from the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP), Samajwadi Party (SP), Kerala Congress (KC) and the Left Front[disambiguation needed].
After facing criticism from her own party and from the country Congress President Sonia Gandhi asked the 22nd Finance Minister Manmohan Singh, an economist, to head the new government. Singh had previously served in the Congress government of Prime Minister P. V. Narasimha Rao in the early 1990s, when he was seen as one of the architects of India's first economic liberalisation plan, which staved off an impending monetary crisis. Despite the fact that Singh had never won a Lok Sabha seat, his considerable goodwill and Sonia Gandhi's nomination won him the support of the UPA allies and the Left Front.
The elections saw the evolution of a Two-party system with political competition primarily concentrated between the UPA and NDA.
Background
Organisation
Pre-poll alliances
Forecast and campaigns
Results
Analysis
Impact
Events
See also
Further reading
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