Madhya Pradesh Vikas Congress
The Madhya Pradesh Vikas Congress ( MPVC , "Progress Congress of Madhya Pradesh") was a temporary split from the Congress Party in the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh .
Party history
The MPVC was founded in 1996 by Madhavrao Scindia . Scindia had belonged to the political prominence of the Congress Party in Madhya Pradesh for the past two decades and had been a member of the Lok Sabha since the 1980 election . In the elections in 1984 , 1989 and 1991 he was successful in the constituency of Gwalior for the Congress Party. From 1991 to 92 and 1995 to 1996 he was Minister in the Cabinet of Prime Minister Narasimha Rao , first as Minister of Civil Aviation, and later as Minister for Human Resources Development. In 1996, however, he came under fire because he was accused of being involved in the hawala bribery scandal. Scindia then resigned from his ministerial office and, at the instigation of Prime Minister Rao, was not nominated as a candidate for the Congress party in the Gwalior constituency in the upcoming general election in 1996 . In disappointment, Scindia left the Congress party and founded her own party, Madhya Pradesh Vikas Congress , for which he ran in the 1996 election and won the Gwalior constituency again. After the election, he and the MPVC initially supported the United Front government of Prime Minister Deve Gowda .
After Rao had resigned from the party chairmanship of the Congress party and Sitaram Kesri had succeeded him as party chairman, Scindia rejoined the Congress Party together with the MPVC.
Individual evidence
- ^ When the giants fell. rediff.com, March 6, 1998, accessed September 4, 2015 .
- ^ Scindia was never defeated in 9 general elections. rediff.com, September 30, 2001, accessed September 4, 2015 .
- ^ Purnima S. Tripathi: OBITUARY: A progressive prince - Madhavrao Scindia, 1945-2001. Frontline Volume 18 - Issue 21, October 13, 2001, accessed September 4, 2015 .