All India Indira Congress (Tiwari)

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The All India Indira Congress (Tiwari) (AIIC (T)) , from 1997 All India Indira Congress (Secular) (AIIC (S)) was a party in India that existed from 1994 to 1998.

The party was founded by dissidents from the Congress Party . The Congress Party placed the government of India under Prime Minister P. V. Narasimha Rao between 1991 and 1996 . Individual prominent politicians of the Congress Party disagreed with Rao's leadership style and accused him of having mainly caused the election defeats of the Congress Party in various states through his politics . A faction of the Congress Party under Arjun Singh and Kanwar Natwar Singh elected the local Congress Party chairman in Uttar Pradesh, Narayan Dutt Tiwari , in 1994instead of Raos as the new chairman of the congress party. The dissidents were then expelled from the Congress party and founded their own party, the All India Indira Congress (Tiwari) .

AIIC (T) was recognized as a national party by the Indian Electoral Commission on March 12, 1996, ran independently from the Congress Party in the 1996 parliamentary elections in India, and won 4.9 million votes (1.46%) nationwide and 4 constituencies in Madhya Pradesh , Uttar Pradesh (2) and Rajasthan . After this result, which was regarded as disappointing, and the resignation of Rao from the chairmanship of the Congress party, Tiwari and Singh returned to the Congress party at the end of 1996. Parts of the party continued to exist under the name All India Indira Congress (Secular) (AIIC (S)). In the 1998 Lok Sabha election , Sis Ram Ola won a single constituency for the AIIC (S) ( 4-Jhunjhunu in Rajasthan) and AIIC (S) received 457,510 votes (0.12%) nationwide.

After Sonia Gandhi had become President of the Congress Party and had issued an invitation to all dissidents in recent years to return to the Congress Party, the AIIC (S) reunited with the Congress Party in 1998.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Sudha Pai: Transformation of the Indian Party System: The 1996 Lok Sabha Elections . Asian Survey, Vol. 36, No. 12 (Dec. 1996), pp. 1170-1183 JSTOR 2645573
  2. ↑ Smita Gupta: TN: Congress has reasons to worry. The Hindu, November 4, 2014, accessed December 2, 2014 .
  3. ↑ LANDMARK JUDGEMENTS ON ELECTION LAW (A Compilation of Important and Far-reaching Judgments Pronounced by Supreme Court of India, High Courts and Election Commission of India). (pdf) 2000, p. 237ff , accessed on December 2, 2014 (English).
  4. ↑ a b Election Results - Full Statistical Reports. Indian Election Commission, accessed on October 3, 2014 (English, election results of all Indian elections to the Lok Sabha and the parliaments of the states since independence).
  5. ↑ a b George IYPE: Sonia wants to ask Congress rebels to return. rediff.com, March 30, 1998, accessed December 23, 2014 .