Indian National Congress (INC) leader Rahul Gandhi (C) along with his party leaders wave towards their supporters during an election campaign in New Delhi, India, Feb. 5, 2020. Campaigning for upcoming local elections here in the Indian capital reached a crescendo on Wednesday as different ...
Indian National Congress (redirected fromIndian National Congress Party) Encyclopedia n (Government, Politics & Diplomacy) the official name forCongress3 Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged, 12th Edition 2014 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2007, 200...
Speaking on the occasion, party president Amit Shah said that the BJP had secured more than 50 percent of votes polled in as many as 17 states, while the main opposition party the Indian National Congress (INC) could not even win a single constituency in a large number of states. Earlier,...
He introduced me to all the main leaders of the Bengal Congress at the time (except Mamata Banerjee who could not come) and I was tasked by him to write the manifesto for the State elections that year, which I did (in English, translated into Bangla by Professor Manjula Bose); the Com...
This "sandwich tactic" has been used repeatedly by Congress leaders during successive crises and accounts for the party's long innings in power, its continued strength today, and, inter alia, the acquiescence of Indian elites in electoral democracy.doi:10.1080/14736480412331307012...
By the early 20th century, the Indian National Congress began to shift from moderate to more “extremist” stances, under the influence of leaders such as Bal Gangadhar Tilak, Lala Lajpat Rai, Bipin Chandra Pal, and Annie Besant. The concept of swadeshi (“of our own country”), or priorit...
Of all the leaders of the Congress Party—including Gandhi—Nehru alone had given serious thought to India’s place in the worldcommunity. That enabled him not only to educate the Indian populace on foreign affairs before independence but to project his own views on Indian foreign policy when ...
Premier Li meets Indian leaders BEIJING, May 21 (Xinhuanet) -- Visiting Premier Li Keqiang has met with the Chief of the ruling Indian National Congress Party Sonia Gandhi, and Indian Vice President Mohammad Hamid Ansari in New Dehli. During talks with Gandhi, Premier Li said that the ...
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On January 26, 1930, the Indian National Congress publicly declared its Purna Swaraj (“Complete Self-Rule”) resolution, decisively rejecting the idea of dominion status within the British Empire and establishing full sovereignty as the goal of the independence movement. Initially, some leaders withi...