Indian Congress (Socialist) - Sarat Chandra Sinha
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
- ↑ 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).
- ^ 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 .
- ^ 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).
- ^ Pawar & Co launch Nationalist Congress. rediff.com, May 27, 1999, accessed April 18, 2016 .
- ↑ EC reserves order on NCP claim on symbol. The Tribune India, July 25, 1999, accessed April 18, 2016 .
- ^ KPM Basheer: Congress (S) re-launch today. The Hindu, May 29, 2002, accessed April 18, 2016 .