Congress party

A political party in India, formally the Indian National Congress, established in the late nineteenth century. It was the party of Mahatma Gandhi and Jawaharlal Nehru. After India achieved independence from Britain in 1947, the Congress party dominated India's politics for two decades.

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She was tired of carrying the Congress party on her back and saw the presidency as a way to deliver a "shock treatment to her party, thereby giving it a new stimulus".

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Behind this authoritarian curtain, her Congress party government quietly began reimagining the country - not as a democracy rooted in checks and balances, but as a centralised state governed by command and control, historian Srinath Raghavan reveals in his new book.

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The child's plight began making news after a viral video showed members of the opposition Congress party arguing with hospital staff, demanding that she be admitted.

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Karnataka, of which Bengaluru is the capital is currently run by the Congress party.

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The main opposition Congress party wanted an explanation from the government and an all-party meeting on the "ceasefire announcements made from Washington DC first".

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Congress on Racial Equality congressperson

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