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 in 1885,it was the first modern nationalist movement to emerge in the British Empire in Asia and Africa. From the late 19th century,and especially after 1920,under the leadership of Mahatma Gandhi,the Congress became the principal leader of the Indian independence movement. The Congress led India to independence from the United Kingdom,and significantly influenced other anti-colonial nationalist movements in the British Empire.
Sonia Gandhi is an Indian politician. She is the longest-serving president of the Indian National Congress,a social democratic political party,which has governed India for most of its post-independence history. She took over as the party leader in 1998,seven years after the assassination of Rajiv Gandhi,her husband and a former Prime Minister of India,and remained in office until 2017 after serving for twenty-two years. She returned to the post in 2019 and remained the President for another three years.
Rahul Rajiv Gandhi is an Indian politician and a member of the Indian Parliament who represents the constituency of Wayanad,Kerala,in the Lok Sabha. He previously represented the constituency of Amethi,Uttar Pradesh. He is a member of the main opposition party,the Indian National Congress,and was the party president from December 2017 to July 2019. He is the chairperson of the Indian Youth Congress,the National Students Union of India and a trustee of the Rajiv Gandhi Foundation and Rajiv Gandhi Charitable Trust. He is the son of the former Prime Minister of India,Rajiv Gandhi.
Vishwanath Pratap Singh,shortened to V. P. Singh,was an Indian politician who was the 7th Prime Minister of India from 1989 to 1990 and the 41st Raja Bahadur of Manda. He is India's only prime minister to have been former royalty.
Sanjay Gandhi was an Indian politician and the younger son of Indira Gandhi and Feroze Gandhi. He was a member of parliament,Lok Sabha and the Nehru–Gandhi family.
Giani Zail Singh was an Indian politician from Punjab who served as the seventh president of India from 1982 to 1987 and 9th Chief Minister of Punjab. He was the first Sikh to become president.
Somanahalli Mallaiah Krishna is an Indian politician who served as Minister of External Affairs of India from 2009 to October 2012. He was the 10th Chief Minister of Karnataka from 1999 to 2004 and the 19th Governor of Maharashtra from 2004 to 2008. SM Krishna had served as the Speaker of the Karnataka Vidhan Sabha from December 1989 to January 1993. He was also a member of Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha at various times from 1971 to 2014. In 2023,Krishna was awarded the Padma Vibhushan,the second highest civilian award of India.
Madhavrao Jivajirao Scindia was an Indian politician and a minister in the Government of India. He was a member of the Indian National Congress party.
Captain Amarinder Singh,is an Indian politician,military historian,former royal and Indian Army veteran who served as the 15th Chief Minister of Punjab. A former Member of the Legislative Assembly,Punjab and Member of Parliament,Lok Sabha,he was also the president of Punjab Pradesh Congress Committee. He has also previously served as the Chief Minister of Punjab from 2002 to 2007 and 2017 to 2021. His father was the last Maharaja of the princely state of Patiala. He has also served in the Indian Army from 1963 to 1966. In 1980,he won a seat in the Lok Sabha for the first time. As of November 2022,Singh also serves as the chairman of the Punjab Urdu Academy. Captain Singh resigned as the Chief Minister of Punjab on 18 September 2021. On 19 September 2022 he merged his party PLC with BJP and joined BJP on the same day.
Buta Singh was an Indian politician and a senior leader of the Indian National Congress. He was the Union Home Minister of India,Governor of Bihar and was chairman of the National Commission for Scheduled Castes from 2007 to 2010.
The Indian National Congress was established when 72 representatives from all over the country met at Bombay in 1885. Prominent delegates included Dadabhai Naoroji,Surendranath Banerjee,Badruddin Tyabji,Pherozeshah Mehta,W. C. Bonnerjee,S. Ramaswami Mudaliar,S. Subramania Iyer,and Romesh Chunder Dutt. The Englishman Allan Octavian Hume,a former British civil servant,was one of the founding members of the Indian National Congress.
Raj Narain was an Indian freedom fighter and politician. He won in a famous electoral malpractice case against the then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi,which led to her disqualification and imposition of Emergency in India in 1975. He defeated Indira Gandhi during the 1977 Lok Sabha elections.
Preneet Kaur is an Indian politician who served in the Government of India as a Minister of State in the Ministry of External Affairs from 2009 to 2014. She is married to Amarinder Singh,who was the 15th Chief Minister of Punjab. She joined the Congress party,to which her husband also belonged once,and contested parliamentary elections repeatedly from the Patiala constituency. In February 2023,she was suspended from party for supporting BJP leader and her husband Amarinder Singh. She won the elections of 1999,2004 and 2009,but lost her seat in the elections of 2014 and made a comeback by winning again in 2019.
Vidya Charan Shukla was an Indian politician whose political career spanned six decades. He was predominantly a member of the Indian National Congress,but also had spells in Jan Morcha,Janata Dal,Samajwadi Janata Party (Rashtriya),Nationalist Congress Party and Bharatiya Janata Party. He was known as a close associate of Indira Gandhi.
Yadavindra Singh was the ninth and last ruling Maharaja of Patiala from 1938 to 1971. He was also a diplomat,sports administrator and former cricketer who played in one Test in 1934.
Mehtab Kaur,was the second wife of the ninth and the last Maharaja of Patiala Yadavindra Singh (1913–1974). She was the mother of Amarinder Singh,the former Chief Minister of Punjab. Had it not been for the erstwhile Indian princely families being stripped of their titles in 1971,upon the death of her husband she would have been considered Rajmata,and in popular usage is commonly referred to as such.
Chandra Shekhar was an Indian politician who served as the 8th Prime Minister of India,between 10 November 1990 and 21 June 1991. He headed a minority government of a breakaway faction of the Janata Dal with outside support from the Indian National Congress. He was the first Indian Prime Minister who had never held any prior government office.
The Uttar Pradesh legislative assembly election followed as a result the expiration of the five-year term of the previous legislature elected in Uttar Pradesh,India. The election to the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly was held in seven phases from 8 February through 3 March 2012. Uttar Pradesh has the world's largest population for a sub-national democracy. The incumbent chief minister Mayawati's Bahujan Samaj Party,which previously won an absolute majority of seats,was defeated by Mulayam Singh Yadav's Samajwadi Party,which gained an absolute majority in the election. Mulayam's son and Samajwadi party president Akhilesh Yadav was nominated as chief minister by the party.
M. S. Gurupadaswamy was an Indian politician. He was the Leader of House of Rajya Sabha from December 1989 to November 1990 and served twice as the Leader of the Opposition in Rajya Sabha during March 1971 to April 1972 and 28 June 1991 to 21 July 1991.
One Life Is Not Enough is an autobiography by K. Natwar Singh,former Minister of External Affairs and senior Indian National Congress politician. An account of his career as a politician and bureaucrat,the book tells about his experiences in Delhi's political corridors and sets the record straight on several events,including the volcker controversy and Sonia Gandhi withdrawal as a prime minister candidate.
