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3 days ago · Bengaluru: Chief minister Siddaramaiah, a pivotal figure in Congress party's success in Karnataka, is facing mounting pressure to resign following a special court's order on Wednesday directing Lokayukta police to investigate the Muda site allotment case.
Sep 18, 2024 · Indian National Congress, broadly based political party of India. Formed in 1885, the Indian National Congress dominated the Indian movement for independence from Great Britain. It subsequently formed most of India’s governments from the time of independence and often had a strong presence in many state governments.
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- The Indian National Congress is one of two major political parties in India. It was influential in the 20th-century Indian independence movement an...
- The Indian National Congress was founded in 1885, initially with the goal of pursuing moderate reform under the British raj in India. Its roots are...
- The Indian National Congress was initially focused on moderate reform under the British raj in India. However, some early 20th-century activists be...
- Prior to Indian independence, the Indian National Congress was a champion of moderate reform, although during the 1920s and ’30s it transitioned to...
- The Indian National Congress’s prominent Gandhi family is not related to Mahatma Gandhi. Jawaharlal Nehru and his daughter Indira Gandhi, who both...
2 days ago · Origins of the nationalist movement. The Indian National Congress (Congress Party) held its first meeting in December 1885 in Bombay city while British Indian troops were still fighting in Upper Burma.
3 days ago · The first party system, dominated by the Congress Party, was in place from the time of independence until the elections of 1967, the year when the Congress Party’s grip on power in India’s states began to sharply wane. 8 In the second party system, stretching from 1967 to 1989, the Congress Party largely retained its controlling position at the center even as its popularity in national terms gradually declined. The only time its hold on power in New Delhi slipped was when it was ...
1 day ago · The Indian National Congress (INC), colloquially the Congress Party or simply the Congress, is a political party in India with deep roots in most regions of India. Founded on 28 December 1885, it was the first modern nationalist movement to emerge in the British Empire in Asia and Africa.
The Congress on Saturday appointed Subhankar Sarkar as the president of its West Bengal unit, replacing Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury. Senior Congress leader Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury on Sunday said he had...
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6 days ago · The Muslim League and its president, Jinnah, did not join in the Pakistan demand until after the league’s famous Lahore meeting in March 1940, as Jinnah, a secular constitutionalist by predilection and training, continued to hope for a reconciliation with the Congress Party.
