Indian Congress (Socialist) - Sarat Chandra Sinha

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The Indian Congress (Socialist) - Sarat Chandra Sinha ( ICS (SCS) ) was a party in India that existed between 1984 and 1999.

Party history

The ICS (SCS) was one of several spin-offs from the Congress party . In 1978 the then Chief Minister of Karnataka D. Devaraj Urs was expelled from the Congress party after a falling out with Indira Gandhi . He then founded his own party, later the so-called Congress (U) . In the parliamentary elections in 1980, the Congress (U) performed disappointingly. It won just 5.3% of the vote and 13 constituencies while the rival Congress (I) under Indira Gandhi won 42.7% of the vote and 353 constituencies. In the period that followed, the Congress (U) showed acute signs of disintegration and many of its representatives returned to Indira's congress party. In 1984 , a parliamentary group under the former Chief Minister of Assam Sarat Chandra Sinha split off from Congress (U), which had meanwhile been renamed Congress (S) ( Indian Congress (Socialist) ) . The new grouping was recognized by the Indian Electoral Commission as a party under the name Indian Congress (Socialist) - Sarat Chandra Sinha , short ICS (SCS). Sinha has since acted as party president of the ICS (SCS).

Election results

The ICS (SCS) won almost 1 million votes (0.3-0.4%) nationwide in the parliamentary elections in India in 1989 and 1991 and one constituency ( 3-Badagara in Kerala ) and was named a “ national party ” by the Indian Electoral Commission " guided. In the 1996 election he ran under the name Indian Congress Socialist and won only 404,261 votes (0.12%), no constituency and only had the status of a state party.

resolution

On May 27, 1999, Sharad Pawar founded his own party, the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP), after a dispute with Sonia Gandhi over the leadership of the Congress Party . On July 25, 1999, the IC (S) joined the NCP and thus dissolved as a party.

In 2002 the local organization of the NCP in Kerala under Kadannappally Ramachandran broke away from the mother party and on May 28, 2002 re-founded the Indian Congress (Socialist) in Kerala. Since then, the ICS has existed as a small regional party in Kerala, which is politically associated with the Left Democratic Front coalition .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ RFA No. 2011 OF 2005. (PDF) Karnataka High Court in Bangalore, October 11, 2013, pp. 11-13 , accessed on April 18, 2016 (English, court judgment with a brief recap of the story).
  2. ^ Stuart Corbridge, John Harriss: Reinventing India: Liberalization, Hindu Nationalism and Popular Democracy. Polity Press Cambridge 2000, ISBN 0-7456-2076-0 , p. 90, books.google.de .
  3. ^ Election Results - Full Statistical Reports. Indian Election Commission, accessed on April 18, 2016 (English, election results of all Indian elections to the Lok Sabha and the parliaments of the states since independence).
  4. ^ Pawar & Co launch Nationalist Congress. rediff.com, May 27, 1999, accessed April 18, 2016 .
  5. ↑ EC reserves order on NCP claim on symbol. The Tribune India, July 25, 1999, accessed April 18, 2016 .
  6. ^ KPM Basheer: Congress (S) re-launch today. The Hindu, May 29, 2002, accessed April 18, 2016 .