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The Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) is an Indian political party.It was formed on May 25, 1999, by Sharad Pawar, P.A. Sangma, and Tariq Anwar after they were thrown out of the Congress Party due to their stating their belief that a person of foreign origin should not become the Prime Minister of India.
In January 2004, Sangma quit the NCP because he felt Sharad Pawar was getting closer to the Congress Party inspite of no change of leadership in the Congress. For a brief period Sangma's fraction tried to claim the right to the name and symbol of NCP. The Election Commission aknowledged Pawar's group as the genuine NCP. Following the decision of the Election Commission, Sangma's group merged with AITC to form the Nationalist Trinamool Congress.
The NCP advertises itself a progressive, secular party that stands for " democracy, Gandhian secularism, equity, social justice, and federalism." It positions itself as a moderate, leftFor the direction left see left and right. For the political trend or ideology, see Left-wing politics.-leaning alternative to the Bharatiya Janata PartyThe Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP; "Indian People's Party") is one of the largest political parties in India. In the 12th Lok Sabha ( 1999- 2004) it was the single largest party with 179 (out of 545) members. It is the successor party of the Bharatiya Jan S (BJP) and the Congress. The party's election symbol is an analog clock that reads 10:00. The party is in power in state of MaharashtraDate of formation May 1, 1960 Capital Mumbai Auxiliary Capital Nagpur Largest City Mumbai Governor Mohammad Fazal Chief Minister Vilasrao Deshmukh Deputy Chief Minister R R Patil Area 308,000 kmē Population Total Density Ranked 2nd in India 96,752,247 ( 2 with Congress(I) support and some of its members are in Manmohan SinghManmohan Singh in Gurmukhi) (born September 26, 1932 in Gah, West Punjab now in Pakistan is the thirteenth prime minister of India. He is from the Indian National Congress party. A member of the Sikh faith, Singh was sworn in on May 22, 2004 as India's fi's cabinet at center, after victory of Congress(I) in 2004.
1 NCP Policies
- Establishment of a national agricultural policy
- Establishment of a national policy to empower women
- Review and revision to the national health policy to add a separate sub-component on women's health
- Integrated implementation of a national nutrition policy to merge and coordinate various services provided by different government departments and agencies
- Citizenship law reform to stipulate that high offices in government be confined to natural-born Indian citizens (see Sonia GandhiSonia Gandhi ( (born December 9, 1946), is an Indian politician and the president of the Indian National Congress (Congress Party). Also, she is currently the chairwoman of the ruling United Progressive Alliance in the Lok Sabha. She is the Italian-born w)
- Reserving for women one-third of the seats in parliament and in state legislatures
- Enactment of a competition law to protect against corrupt practices
- Enactment of a bio-diversity law to protect bio-diversity and intellectual property
- Enactment of a law establishing an independent telecasting authority
1.1 Proposed Governmental Commissions
- An Exclusive Scheduled Tribes Commission with constitutional status
- An Exclusive Minorities Commission with constitutional status
- A Commission on Corporate Governance to establish self-regulating Fair Practices Code
- Railways Safety Commission
2 See also
- Politics of IndiaGovernment According to its constitution, India is a "sovereign, socialist, secular, democratic republic. Like the United States, India has a federal form of government. However, the central government in India has greater power in relation to its states,
- List of political parties in IndiaThe Constitution of India stipulates that India be a federal polity with a central government in New Delhi, and state governments for the various states and Union territories. Consequently, political parties in India are classified as national and state (
