Nationalist Congress Party
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| Leader | Sharad Pawar |
| Founded | 1999 |
| Main Office | 10, Bishambhar Das Marg, New Delhi - 110001 |
| Alliance | United Progressive Alliance |
| Ideology | Populist |
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| Website | http://www.ncp.org.in |
| See also | Politics of India |
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 because of stating their belief that a person of foreign origin should not become the Prime Minister of India.
It was Maharashtra who has first supported Shri Sharad Pawar and Maharashtra First NCP President was Shri Chagan Bhujbal for Mumbai President Shri R .T. Kadam and fist IT Cell Chairmen Shri Najmudin Bookwala (Manoj)
Najmudin Bookwala (Manoj) was a first founder General Secretary for south Mumbai NCP; he was then elected for PCC member in NCP from Ummerkhadi, now he is appointed as General Secretary Mumbai NCP
Mr. Najmudin Bookwala and other have left the congress and join the politcal party NCP it was a big group of Muslim Minority join the NCP was Najmudin Bookwala, Nashir Pathan, Dr.Ismail qureshi, Mr.Rauf Qureshi, Mr.Tahir Asrafi, Mr. Maqbool Alm Khan and Prof Javed Khan, Mr.Abbas contrctoer,
The first Minority chairmen for NCP in Maharashtra was Professor Javed Khan like Dr Ismail Qureshi was first Minority Founder President of South Mumbai,for Mumbai first Minority chairmen was Janb Nashir Pathan
Mr. Bashir Patel who was the first to leave Samjwadi Party and join NCP with his supporter later Mr. Nawab Malik had join the party and was continue as Minister for Hosing State in Maharashtra as a Member of NCP
Big Muslim minority leader joining the NCP did not benefit in Mumbai BMC, in this election NCP did not perform well. But he minority leaders won he 2004 Assembly election
In January 2004, Sangma quit the NCP because he felt Sharad Pawar was getting closer to the Congress Party in spite 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 acknowledged 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 as a progressive, secular party that stands for "democracy, Gandhian secularism, equity, social justice, and federalism." It positions itself as a moderate, left-leaning alternative to the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the Congress. The party's election symbol is an analog clock that reads 10:10. The party is in power in the state of Maharashtra in alliance with Congress(I). Since 2004 NCP is a member of the United Progressive Alliance, which governs the country.
[edit] 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
- The first politcal party in India who has started web site call [www.nationalistcongressparty.com] in 1999 by Sharad chandra Pawar
- Citizenship law reform to stipulate that high offices in government be confined to natural-born Indian citizens (see Sonia Gandhi)
- 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
[edit] 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
