Gomme-Duncan spoke from experience in late 1946 when he opposed independence for India, contending that the Congress Party consisted of "moneylenders and landlords" who did not recognise their responsibilities to the peasants, while the British were the only people for 200 years who protected the "toiling masses".
The victory of the Indian National Congress in Haryana's 2005 elections caused a major rift in its state unit, as it opted to make Bhupinder Hooda, a Jat, the Chief Minister instead of Bhajan.
In a 1999 interview, Javed Anand said that before the 1999 Lok Sabha elections Communalism Combat requested and received funds from the Congress Party, Communist Party of India (Marxist) and the Communist Party of India and ten individuals to run advertisements attacking the Sangh Parivar and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).
In 1996 when India's Congress Party was no longer in power, the Indian government assessed the project as being excessively expensive and refused to pay for the plant and stopped construction.
The formation of the Indian National Congress in 1885 led to increased agitation for Indian independence from British rule.
The 1984 Anti-Sikh Riots was a four-day period during which Sikhs were massacred by members of the secular-centrist Congress Party of India; some estimates state that more than 2,000 were killed.
Its first Chairperson was Sarojini Poula Reddy, a Congress Party Member of the State Assembly.
He was elected to the Tamil Nadu legislative assembly as an Indian National Congress candidate in the 2001 and 2006 elections.
During a time when the DMK was gaining political ground in Tamil Nadu, a time when there was competition between parties, and films were pitched against each other, the opposition unleashed a malicious propaganda that since Chidambaram belonged to the Indian National Congress, Kappalottiya Thamizhan was a film for the Congress.
Born Krishna Nehru, in Mirganj, Allahabad to Motilal Nehru, an Indian independence activist and leader of the Indian National Congress, and Swarup Rani, she was married to Gunottam (Raja) Hutheesing, who belonged to a prominent Ahmedabad family that built the Hutheesing Jain Temple.
After completing his undergraduate studies in 1935 at the age of 26, Ram Prakash joined the Indian National Congress.
Mahbub Ali Khan's grandfather was an eminent doctor in Calcutta and was personal physician to the Bihari Shia lawyer-politician Syed Hasan Imam, the top barrister of Calcutta High Court and leader of the Indian National Congress.
E. Maheshwar Reddy is the chairman, and is also an MLA of the Indian National Congress party who won state general assembly elections in 2009.
Anandamohan Bose, First Indian wrangler and a former president of the Indian National Congress
She steadily climbed up in the Indian National Congress party, heading several divisions of the party's grassroots organizations.
Varadarajulu Naidu entered politics at an early age and joined the Indian National Congress.
Runganadha Mudaliar entered politics in his later life and attended sessions of the Indian National Congress.
In 1970 he published Politics in India, which first theorized Indian National Congress as a system rather than a party.
He was the owner of The Ladies Review for some years and was a member of the British Committee of The Indian National Congress.
He was on the Executive Board of the National Academy of Art (Lalit Kala Akademy) and was Chairman of the Decoration Sub Committee at the 61st Session of the Indian National Congress held at Amritsar in 1956.
According to A. R. Desai, The Free Press Journal was a strong supporter of the Indian National Congress's "demand and struggle for independence" from Great Britain.
His youngest brother, Naveen, is a Member of Parliament of India from the Indian National Congress party.He represents Kurukshetra constituency from the state of Haryana.
Sardar Vedaratnam Pillai (25 December 1897 - 24 August 1961) was an Indian freedom-fighter, a leader of the Indian National Congress and a famous philanthropist who served as a MLA for three terms over a period of 14 years.
The slogan was popularized and brought into the national lexicon by Pandit Madan Mohan Malaviya in 1918 when serving his second of four terms as President of the Indian National Congress.
The party gave her a ticket to 14th Lok Sabha elections in the year 2004 from the Chandni Chowk constituency in Delhi where she was fielded against veteran political leader Kapil Sibal of Indian National Congress.
Earlier in 1920, the members of the Indian National Congress had agreed on the linguistic reorganization of the Indian states as one of the party's political goals.
Visvanatha Pillai Kamalaswamy (January 21, 1911 – March 25, 1998) is an Indian politician from the Indian National Congress.
The legislative assembly of Timarpur is currently being run by the Indian National Congress.
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Ajeya Pratap Singh formly known as Ajeya Singh, born in 1956, is a politician belonging to Indian National Congress and 42nd Raja Bahadur of Manda.
He was a leader of the regional Indian National Congress party, and became a member of the Legislative Assembly of Rajasthan (MLA), and subsequently the 'Minister Public Works Department', Government of Rajasthan from 1967 to 1976.
By-elections occurred in Andhra Pradesh in March for a Vidhan Sabha seat and on 12 June for Nellore and 18 Vidhan Sabha constituencies following the disqualification of defected members of the Indian National Congress who joined the YSR Congress Party of the former chief minister's son, Y. S. Jaganmohan Reddy.
This constituency has been the battleground of two candidates over the years: Ramesh Kumar of the Congress (I), who replaced his brother Sajjan Kumar (a senior leader of congress party and ex Member of Parliament) and Sher Singh Dagar of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).
He is the deputy opposition leader in the Chhattisgarh assembly, belonging to the Indian National Congress.
The Indian National Congress in Boda has been ruling for a long time because of Mr. Dhool singh Yadav, who is the former M.L.A. of Narsinghgarh Tehsil who made his public image in a very short period of time.
He was elected to the Tamil Nadu legislative assembly from Ariyalur constituency as a Tamil Maanila Congress candidate in 1996 election, and as an Indian National Congress candidate in 2006 election.
Gade Venkat Reddy is a senior most politician from Prakasam district and 5 terms MLA of the Indian National Congress Party.
Gandhi Bhavan is the headquarters of the Indian National Congress Party in Andhra Pradesh.
Narendra Modi, Chief Minister of Gujarat, and a member of the right-wing Hindu nationalist BJP party, belongs to the Teli caste; a remark by Congress Party's Ghulam Nabi Azad, rephrasing Modi's Prime Ministerial ambitions in the light of the ancient quip "Kahan Raja Bhoj, kahan Gangu Teli" has drawn denunciations of casteism by the BJP.
Inspired by Mahatma Gandhi and Pandit Gopabandhu Das, he joined the Congress party and was a member of the Vidhan Sabha (Lower House) of the Orissa Legislative Assembly.
Shri Harish Kumar Gangawar was Member of Parliament in the seventh Lok Sabha from Pilibhit Constituency elected in 1980 on Indian National Congress ticket.
The timing of this award of an Adult certificate to Inshallah, Football is curious, since it coincided with the award of an Adult certificate for a No One Killed Jessica, a film based upon the murder of Jessica Lall by Manu Sharma, a wealthy man with strong political ties to the ruling Indian National Congress.
Maniruzzaman Islamabadi supported the Indian National Congress and took an active part in the movement for the annulment of the Partition of Bengal.
To circumvent media restrictions, Indian National Congress activists, led by Usha Mehta contacted Mumbai-based amateur radio operators, "Bob" Tanna (VU2LK) and Printer to help broadcast messages to grass-root party workers across the country.
Congress member Pranab Mukherjee, stated that while he had no objection to any language being included in the Eighth Schedule, the Government should have consulted the Standing Committee to bring "a comprehensive and well thought-out legislation".
When Congress Socialist Party was formed in the later years of the freedom struggle as an offshoot of the Indian National Congress, several political lights of the village, like Manjapra Appukunja Menon, joined it.
He launched his political party as an alternative to the ruling Indian National Congress and Telugu Desam Party in his native state of Andhra Pradesh.
Even after India attaining Independence from the British Raj in 1947, Andhra Pradesh state of India is governed till today either by Indian National Congress, dominated by one caste (5% of Andhra Pradesh population) of Forward Caste, or by Telugu Desam Party, dominated by another Forward Caste (3% of Andhra Pradesh population).
His poem, Ode on The Meeting of Congress at Allahabad, on 26 December, 1888 was considered one of his most powerful poems.
On 1 January 1989, while performing a street play, Halla Bol (Attack!), during Ghaziabad municipal elections, in Sahibabad's Jhandapur village (near Delhi), the Janam troupe was attacked by political hoodlums of the Indian National Congress.
On 25 May 2013, its founder Mahendra Karma, who had become a senior Indian National Congress party leader was killed in a Naxalite attack along with other party members in Darbha Valley of Chhattisgarh, 400 km south of Raipur and 50 km from Jagdalpur.
1913: Prominent Muslim leader, Muhammad Ali Jinnah left Indian National Congress aknowlleging that Hindu dominant Indian Congress failing to protect Indian Muslim rights, later became leader of the All-India Muslim League and instrumental in the creation of Pakistan.
Sambanthan Thevar had befriended her when he was involved with the Indian National Congress while studying at Annamalai University.