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Indian National Congress

centrist-liberal political party in India

8 dated entries naming Indian National Congress, drawn from 8 separate years between 1871 CE and 1996 CE. Nothing here is written by us: each line is the sentence a Wikipedia year article used, and the link beside it opens the exact revision.

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19th century

  • 1871August 31 – Syed Hasan Imam, Indian politician and served as President of the Indian National Congress (d. 1933)source
  • 1885December 28 – 72 Indian lawyers, academics and journalists gather in Bombay to form the Congress Party.source

20th century

  • 1917December – Annie Besant becomes president of the Indian National Congress.source
  • 1930January 26 – The Indian National Congress declares this date as Independence Day, or as the day for Purna Swaraj (Complete Independence).source
  • 1931September 7 – The Second Round Table Conference on the constitutional future of India opens in London; Mahatma Gandhi represents the Indian National Congress.source
  • 1980January 14 – Indian National Congress party leader Indira Gandhi returns to power as the Prime Minister of India.source
  • 1991June 15 – The Indian general elections end; the Indian National Congress wins the most seats but fails to secure a majority. Six days later, Congress leader P. V. Narasimha Rao becomes Prime Minister of India.source
  • 1996May 17–28 – Atal Bihari Vajpayee, leader of the Bharatiya Janata Party, is elected as Prime Minister of India, replacing P. V. Narasimha Rao of the Indian National Congress. However, the party does not receive an overall majority and Vajpayee resigns thirteen days later rather than face a no confidence vote and is replaced by the United Front leader, Deve Gowda.source

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