Nationalist Congress Party
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| president | Sharad Pawar |
| Secretary General | Praful Pratel , Sunil Tatkare |
| speaker | Nawab Malik |
| National Treasurer | YP Trivedi |
| founding | June 10, 1999 |
| Headquarters | Bishmabhar Marg 10, 110001 New Delhi |
| Youth organization | Nationalist Youth Congress |
| Alignment | Progressivism , nationalism , federalism , secularism |
| Lok Sabha |
5/543 |
| Rajya Sabha |
4/245 |
| Website | ncp.org.in |
The Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) ( Hindi : राष्ट्रवादी कॉँग्रेस पक्ष , rāṣṭrabādī kȏṅgres pakṣa ) is a party in India . It emerged in 1999 as a split from the Congress party and has its focus in the state of Maharashtra .
history
The Nationalist Congress Party was founded on May 12, 1999 by Sharad Pawar , Purno Agitok Sangma and Tariq Anwar , as they opposed the election of the native Italian Sonia Gandhi as party leader of the Congress Party. As a result, the three were expelled from the Congress party on May 20, 1999. At the time of its founding, the Indian Congress (Socialist) - Sarat Chandra Sinha (ICS (SCS)), a 1984 spin-off from the Indian Congress (Socialist) , was absorbed into the newly founded party. However, Sangma left the NCP in 2004 due to differences with Sharad Pawar and out of opposition to the NCP's close alliance with the Congress Party and allied with the All India Trinamool Congress , another split from the Congress Party in West Bengal . However, he later became active again in the NCP as its general secretary.
The NCP sees itself as a party which, by its own admission, advocates democracy, a secular social order in the tradition of Gandhi, social justice and federalism as well as national unity. The party sees itself as an alternative to the Congress Party and the Hindu Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).
The political focus of the NCP is in the state of Maharashtra. In addition to Maharashtra, the NCP is at least temporarily represented in parliament in the states of Arunachal Pradesh , Gujarat , Kerala , Manipur , Meghalaya , Nagaland , Odisha and Uttar Pradesh . Here, however, it only plays a subordinate role with one to five members.
In 2012, Purno Agitok Sangma, one of the NCP founders, founded his own party, the National People's Party , which had its main focus in the state of Meghalaya . As a result, the NCP lost most of its previous voting shares in Meghalaya. Sangma had already temporarily left the NCP with his supporters between 2004 and 2005.
Between 2004 and 2014, the NCP was a member of the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) led by the Congress party . In the run-up to the parliamentary elections in Maharashtra in October 2014, the NCP left this alliance because it could not agree on joint constituency agreements with the Congress party.
In the all-Indian election for Lok Sabha in 2009 , the NCP received 8.5 million votes (2.04 percent) nationwide and won (as in the 2004 election) nine seats (1.7 percent; eight seats in Maharashtra, one in Meghalaya) . In the coalition government formed afterwards under Prime Minister Manmohan Singh , the NCP provided two ministerial posts. In the 2014 election of Lok Sabha , the NCP, as an ally of the Congress Party, lost a lot of votes, gaining 1.6% of the vote and six parliamentary seats (five in Maharashtra, one in Bihar ). Since then she has been in the opposition.
Previous election results
In addition to Maharashtra, the NCP is or was represented by a few members in other federal parliaments.
| year | choice | Parliament seats |
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| 1999 |
 Election for Lok Sabha 1999
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8/543 |
| 1999 | General election in Maharashtra 1999 |
58/288 |
| 2004 |
Election for Lok Sabha 2004
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9/543 |
| 2004 | General election in Maharashtra 2004 |
71/288 |
| 2009 |
Election for Lok Sabha 2009
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9/543 |
| 2009 | General election in Maharashtra 2009 |
62/288 |
| 2014 |
Election for Lok Sabha 2014
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6/543 |
| 2014 | General election in Maharashtra 2014 |
41/288 |
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Syed Firdaus Ashraf: Knwo the NCP. rediff.com, April 15, 2004, accessed August 17, 2014 .
- ^ Sangma meets Sonia, first time in a decade The Times of India , June 2, 2009.
- ^ " Our ideology is of a holistic democracy anchored on Gandhian secularism, equity, social justice and federalism based National Unity. " According to [1]
- ^ P Vaidyanathan Iyer: Congress never bothered about UPA partners, says Praful Patel. The Indian Express, November 5, 2014, accessed May 18, 2015 .
- ^ Statistical Report on General Election, 1999 to the 13th Lok Sabha. (PDF) Election Commission of India, accessed April 5, 2014 .
- ^ Statistical Report on General Election, 1999 to the Legislative Assembly of Maharashtra. (PDF) Election Commission of India, accessed April 5, 2014 .
- ^ Statistical Report on General Election, 2004 to the 14th Lok Sabha. (PDF) Election Commission of India, accessed April 5, 2014 .
- ^ Statistical Report on General Election, 2004 to the Legislative Assembly of Maharashtra. (PDF) Election Commission of India, accessed April 5, 2014 .
- ^ General Elections 2009. Press Information Bureau, Government of India, accessed April 5, 2014 .
- ^ Statistical Report on General Election, 2009 to the Legislative Assembly of Maharashtra. (PDF) Press Information Bureau, Government of India, accessed April 5, 2014 .
- ^ Dance of Democracy. The Times of Idia, accessed February 4, 2015 .