Dont scroll down without read .... Please What is Indian National Congress??? The Indian National Congress (abbreviated INC, and commonly known as the Congress) is one of the two major political parties in India. The Organisation was founded in 1885 by Allan Octavian Hume, Dadabhai Naoroji, Dinshaw Wacha, Womesh Chandra Bonnerjee, Surendranath Banerjee, Monomohun Ghose, Mahadev Govind Ranade and William Wedderburn. Hume was also a prominent member of the Theosophical Society. In the following decades, the Indian National Congress became a pivotal participant in the Indian Independence Movement, with over 15 million members and over 70 million participants in its struggle against British colonial rule in India. After independence in 1947, it became the nations dominant political party; in the 15 general elections since independence, the Congress has won an outright majority on six occasions, and has led the ruling coalition a further four times, heading the central government for a total of 49 years. It has been led by the Nehru-Gandhi family for the most part, with major challenges for party leadership emerging only since 2010. In the most recent general elections in 2009, the Congress emerged as the single largest party in the Lok Sabha, with 206 of its candidates getting elected to the 543-member house. Consequently it, as the leader of a coalition of political parties called the United Progressive Alliance (UPA), was able to gain a majority and form the government. What they Done for our Nation???? Bofors scandal The Bofors scandal was a major corruption scandal in India in the 1980s. Late Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi, who was simultaneously serving as the president of Congress (I), and his associates the late Win Chadha and Italian businessman Ottavio Quattrocchi were accused of receiving kickbacks to help Bofors win a bid in 1986 to sell 155 mm field howitzers to the Indian Army. The scale of this corruption was far worse than any that India had seen before, and directly led to the defeat of Gandhis ruling Congress party in the November 1989 general elections. It has been speculated that the scale of the scandal was to the tune of INR 400 million. In January 2011, an Income tax tribunal ruled that Rs. 412 million was paid as kickbacks to the late Win Chadha and Italian businessman Ottavio Quattrocchi in the Swedish howitzer deal and the two are liable to tax in India on such income. 2G spectrum scam In 2010, in an audit report, the Comptroller and Auditor General of India charged the Congress lead government of India with improperly managing the allocation of 122 2G spectrum licenses in 2008. The report charged that officials in the government received bribes from various telecommunications companies and that, as a result, the licenses were issued at a price well below their true value. In a 2012 judgement, the Supreme Court of India declared the process invalid and revoked the licenses that had been issued. The then minister for communications and information technology, A. Raja, a member of the DMK, a party that was a part of the Congress led governing alliance, was indicted for criminal conspiracy, forgery and cheating and the case against him is currently being tried. Bribes to members of parliament As per United States secret diplomatic cable number 162458 dated 17 July 2008, Congress Party insider Satish Sharmas political aide Nachiketa Kapur told a US diplomat on 16 July 2008 that the party paid INR 100 million (about $2.5 million) each to four members of parliament to help the party narrowly survive a no-confidence motion. Another Congress Party insider told the US Political Counsel in New Delhi that Congress Party cabinet minister Kamal Nath was also helping bribe members of parliament to help secure the votes. Coal block allocation scam The Coal allocation scam is a political scandal concerning the Indian governments allocation of the nations coal deposits to public sector entities (PSEs) and private companies. In a draft report issued in March 2012, the Comptroller and Auditor General of India (CAG) office accused the Government of India of allocating coal blocks in an inefficient manner during the period 2004–2009, that resulted in a loss of INR1.860 trillion (US$30 billion) to the taxpayers.
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