The
Nationalist Congress Party (NCP)
is a true inheritor of the rich and
glorious political legacy handed to
the Indian National Congress (INC)
by early stalwarts like Dada Bhai
Naorogi, Gopal Krishna Gokhale, Bal
Gangadhar Tilak and Annie Besant,
and by other veterans of the freedom
struggle - The Father of the Nation
Mahatma Gandhi himself, Pandit Jawaharlal
Nehru, Maulana Abul Kalam Azad, Sardar
Vallabhi Patel, Aurobindo, Subhash
Chandra Bose, Khan Abdul Gaffar Khan,
Smt. Sarojini Naidu, Madam Bikhaji
Kama and Aruna Asaf Ali. This legacy
is one of ardent nationalism and of
secular ethos, the fountain-head of
which is the very history of our civilization.
It is also one of standing for individual
freedom - social, economic and political.
25th
May 1999 is the Red Letter Day for
the country. It was on that day that
the Nationalist leaders Shri Sharad
Pawar, Shri P. A. Sangma and Shri
Tariq Anwar with hundreds of their
political supporters assembled at
No. 6, Gurudwara Rakab Ganj Road,
New Delhi and took the historic decision
to form a new Political Party under
the name 'Nationalist Congress Party'.
Shri Sharad Pawar
was elected President and Shri
P. A. Sangma and Shri
Tariq Anwar, General Secretaries
of the party.
Our country suffers from a seemingly
chronic malaise, which has left a
great chasm between our inherent potential
and its actual performance on selves
with other developing Asian Countries,
we find that India remains a large
country with a poverty-afflicted economy,
with large disparities in income distribution
and sharing of wealth.
It is heartening that indian political
parties spanning the entire gamut
of ideological spectrum have generally
accepted the imperatives of higher
growth with grace and pragmatism.
There is no hesitation in accepting
the fact that finally India is today
poised to come out of the cocoon of
its sluggish growth rate and become
a newly awakening economic power.
NCP is the Millennial Party
with a modern and progressive orientation.
Our idelogy is of holistic
democracy anchored on Gandhian secularism,
equity, social justice and federalism
based National Unity.
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