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Indian National Congress popularly known as Congress Party is one of the oldest parties in the world. It was founded in 1885 by Dr. A.O. Hume. It was started as a safety valve to express the increasing feeling of discontent among the Indians against the British rule.
It played a dominate role in the Indian politics at the national and state level for several decades.
Aims and Objectives of Congress party:
- Ruling party at the centre till 1977 and then from 19801989, after 1989 its support declined, but it continues to be present throughout the country. Cutting across social division.
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A centrist party (neither right list nor left list) in its ideological orientation, the party espouse secularism as the for most task to preserve the unity and integrity of India.
Safeguards educational, religious and cultural rights and to promote welfare of weaker sections and minorities.
Congress Party also supports New Economic reforms but with a human face.
The party also advocates continuing with the Policy of non-alignment as its foreign policy. It also follows the principle of Panchsheel.
It strives to give power to the people at the grass-roots level through Panchayati Raj and Municipal Corporation.
It works upon to establish big industries as well as small-scale industries for the removal of unemployment.
Congress Party emerged as the largest party with 145 members in the Lok Sabha elections held in 2004.Hence, currently it leads the ruling United Progressive Alliance coalition government at the centre.
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