Indian National Congress (Urs)

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The Indian National Congress (Urs) , or Congress (U) for short (abbreviation: INC (U) ) was a political party in India that emerged in 1978 from a split in the Indian Congress Party and existed under this name until 1981. In 1981 the party was called Indian Congress (Socialist) ( Congress (S ) for short ) and rejoined the Congress party in 1986.

The Congress (U) was founded by D. Devaraj Urs , the former Chief Minister of Karnataka as a split from Indira Gandhi's Congress Party in 1978/79. At the congress party's congress on 1/2. January 1978 in New Delhi there was a dispute between the previous party president Kasu Brahmananda Reddy and the newly elected party president Indira Gandhi. Reddy and his supporters continued to claim the leadership of the Congress party. A little later, Reddy was replaced by the Chief Minister of Karnataka Devaraj Urs , who upheld this claim. In the end there was a split and the two factions or parties that both claimed to be the legitimate successors of the old Congress party were given the names Indian National Congress (Indira) or Congress (I) and Indian National Congress ( Urs) or Congress (U) . Leading personalities of the Congress (U) were Devaraj Urs, YB Chavan in Maharashtra , Kasu Brahmananda Reddy in Andhra Pradesh , Swaran Singh in Punjab , C. Subramaniam in Tamil Nadu , AK Antony in Kerala and Sharad Pawar in Maharashtra. The political focus of the Congress (U) was mainly (but not exclusively) in South India (Kerala, Karnataka, Goa , Maharashtra).

After Congress (U) fell far short of expectations in the 1980 parliamentary elections and had only won 5.28% of the vote and 13 constituencies, Urs resigned from his office as Chief Minister in January 1980, but initially remained party chairman. On May 26, 1981, YB Chavan, the only Congress (U) MP elected in Maharashtra in 1980, left the party and joined Indira's Congress Party. Many Congress (U) members in the regional parliaments of Maharashtra and Karnataka took the same step in the weeks that followed. On August 5, 1981, Congress (U) member Jagjivan Ram called a meeting at which he was elected party president in place of Devaraj Urs. Thereupon Ram was expelled from the party and founded his own party, the National Congress (Jagjivan) .

In September 1981 Sharad Pawar took over the leadership of the Congress (U) , which was then renamed the Indian Congress (Socialist) (IC (S)) , Congress (S) for short . In 1984 a faction split under the former Chief Minister of Assam Sarat Chandra Sinha , under the party name Indian Congress (Socialist) - Sarat Chandra Sinha (ICS (SCS)). In the 1984 general election , the IC (S) received 1.52% of the vote and won 4 constituencies. In 1986 the remaining Congress (S) reunited with the Indian Congress Party. In 1999 the ICS (SCS) joined the newly founded Nationalist Congress Party under Sharad Pawar.

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.
  3. ↑ Lalitha Nataraj, VK Nataraj: Limits of Populism: Devaraj Urs and Karnataka Politics. In: Economic and Political Weekly. Vol. 17, No. 37 (Sep. 11, 1982), pp. 1503-1506 JSTOR 4371347
  4. ^ Walter K. Andersen: India in 1981: Stronger Political Authority and Social Tension. In: Asian Survey. Vol. 22, No. 2: A Survey of Asia in 1981. Part II (Feb. 1982), pp. 119-135. JSTOR 2643939
  5. ^ Merger with NCP. tribuneindia.com, June 10, 1998, accessed September 16, 2015 .