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Sonia Gandhi is the longest serving president of the party, having held the office for over twenty years from 1998 to 2017 and from 2019 to 2022. The latest election of president was held on 17 October 2022, [12] in which Mallikarjun Kharge became the new president defeating Shashi Tharoor in the 2022 Indian National Congress presidential ...
According to CNN, Squad members are notable for "their criticism of the US relationship with Israel". [63] After the beginning of the Israel–Hamas war, seven Squad members were among ten U.S. representatives to vote against a House resolution supporting Israel and condemning Hamas' attack on Israel; Pressley and Casar voted "present". [64]
Dadabhai Naoroji, a member of the sister Indian National Association, was elected president of the Congress in 1886. He was the first Indian Member of Parliament in the British House of Commons (1892–1895) and spent a large part of his life and resources campaigning for India’s cause on the international stage.
Rajendra Prasad, the first president of India, is the only person to have held office for two terms. [5] Seven presidents have been members of a political party before being elected. Six of these were active party members of the Indian National Congress. The Janata Party has had one member, Neelam Sanjiva Reddy, who later
Left Congress in 2021 to join Nationalist Congress Party (now Nationalist Congress Party – Sharadchandra Pawar). Returned to Congress in 2024. 19: Akhilesh Prasad Singh: Member of Parliament, Rajya Sabha; Bihar 20: Arvinder Singh Lovely: Minister in Delhi; Delhi Left Congress in 2024 to re-join Bharatiya Janata Party. [2] 21: Kaul Singh Thakur
The Organisation is headed by the Congress President, who is elected by the All India Congress Committee.The AICC on the other hand is composed of delegates sent by the various State–level Pradesh Congress Committees, who themselves have been elected or nominated to their respective Pradesh Congress Committee from the district and panchayat level party units.
Sir William Wedderburn, 4th Baronet, JP DL (25 March 1838 – 25 January 1918) was a British civil servant and politician who was a Liberal Party member of Parliament (MP). Wedderburn was one of the founding members of the Indian National Congress. [1] [2] He was also the president of Congress in 1889 and 1910, for the Allahabad session. [3] [4]
The CWC is headed by the party president, who is elected by the members of the All India Congress Committee (AICC), the party's central governing body. Mahatma Gandhi attends a Congress Working Committee meeting at Anand Bhavan, Allahabad; Vallabhbhai Patel to the left, Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit to the right, January 1940.