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Tamil Nadu Congress Committee

Field	Value
party_name	Tamil Nadu Congress Committee
colorcode
party_logo	[[File:Indian National Congress hand logo.svg	180px]]
president	K. Selvaperunthagai
chairman	S. Rajeshkumar
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headquarters	Sathyamurthy Bhavan, General Patters road, Chennai-600002, Tamil Nadu
youth	Tamil Nadu Youth Congress
women	Tamil Nadu Mahila Congress Committee
ideology
alliance	Secular Progressive Alliance (SPA)(State level )
Indian National Developmental Inclusive Alliance (INDIA) (National Level)
loksabha_seats
rajyasabha_seats
state_seats_name	Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly
state_seats
symbol	[[File:Hand_INC.svg	150px]]
website
eci	A State Unit of Indian National Congress

Indian National Developmental Inclusive Alliance (INDIA) (National Level)

Tamil Nadu Congress Committee (TNCC) is the wing of Indian National Congress serving in Tamil Nadu. It is responsible for organizing and coordinating the party's activities and campaigns within the state, as well as selecting candidates for local, state, and national elections. The current president is K. Selvaperunthagai.

Social policy of the TNCC is officially based upon the Gandhian principle of Sarvodaya (upliftment of all sections of the society). In particular TNCC emphasises upon policies to improve the lives of the economically and socially unprivileged sections of society. The party primarily endorses social liberalism (seeks to balance individual liberty and social justice).

Ideology and policy positions

Since the 1950s, the TNCC has favored liberal positions (the term "liberal" in this sense describes modern liberalism, not classical liberalism) with support for social justice and a mixed economy. TNCC strongly supports Liberal nationalism, a kind of nationalism compatible with values of freedom, tolerance, equality, and individual rights.

Historically, the party has favoured farmers, labourers, and the working class; it has opposed unregulated business and finance. In recent decades, the party has adopted a centrist economic and socially progressive agenda and has begun to advocate for more social justice, affirmative action, a balanced budget, and a market economy. The economic policy adopted by the modern TNCC is free market policies, though at the same time it is in favour of taking a cautious approach when it comes to liberalising the economy, claiming it is to help ensure that the weaker sectors are not affected too hard by the changes that come with liberalisation. In the 1990s, however, it endorsed market reforms, including privatisation and the deregulation of the economy. It also has supported secular policies that encourage equal rights for all citizens, including those from the lower stratas. The party supports the somewhat controversial concept of family planning with birth control.

Economic policy

The Congress strongly endorses a mixed Capital economy in which both the private sector and the state direct the economy, reflecting characteristics of both market economies and planned economies. A leading economic theory advocated by the modern Tamil Nadu Congress party is import substitution industrialisation that advocates replacing foreign imports with domestic production. Party also believes that mixed economies often provide environmental protection, maintenance of employment standards, a standardized welfare system, and maintenance of competition. The Indian National Congress party liberalised the Indian economy, allowing it to speed up development dramatically.

Healthcare and education

Tamil Nadu Congress Pioneered the first Midday Meal Scheme in India in the Year 1953. This led to a huge wave of enrollment by students from the predominant rural and semi urban pockets of Tamil Nadu, which helped increase the Literacy rate of the state from 16% in 1947 to 82% in 2011. Today, it has become the largest schoolchild feeding programme in the world, covering 110 million students in 1.2 million schools. This rural health initiative was praised by the American economist Jeffrey Sachs and former American President John F. Kennedy. During the TNCC tenure, an IIT and was opened in the state.

Security and state affairs

The Tamil Nadu Congress party has been instrumental in debating and helping strengthen anti-terror and vigilant laws leading to amendments to the Security Laws of the Tamil Nadu Government Departments. Also, Unique Identification Authority of India was established in February 2009, with the help of the Central Government, an agency responsible for implementing the envisioned Multipurpose National Identity Card with the objective of increasing national security and facilitating e-governance.

Structure and composition

S.no	Name	Designation	1.	2.	3.	4.	5.
Girish Chodankar	AICC Incharge
Suraj N Hegde	AICC Secretary
K.Selvaperunthagai	President
Tamil Nadu Congress Committee
Ruby R. Manoharan	Treasurer
Tamil Nadu Congress Committee
S. Rajeshkumar	CLP Leader
Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly

List of presidents

S.no	President	Portrait	Term	1.
C. Rajagopalachari	[[File:Chakravarthi Rajagopalachari.jpg	100px]]	1931	1936
S. Satyamurti	[[File:Sathyamurthy.jpg	100px]]	1936	1939
Tanguturi Prakasam	[[File:Tanguturi Prakasam 1972 stamp of India.jpg	100px]]	1939	1946
K. Kamaraj	[[File:K Kamaraj 1976 stamp of India (cropped).jpg	100px]]	1946	1952
P. Subbarayan	[[File:P Subbarayan 1989 stamp of India.jpg	100px]]	1952	1952
K. Kamaraj	[[File:K Kamaraj 1976 stamp of India (cropped).jpg	100px]]	1952	1954
G.K. Moopanar	[[File:GK_Moopanar_2010_stamp_of_India.jpg	100px]]	1976	1980
M. P. Subramaniam		1980	1983
M. Palaniyandi		1983	1988
G.K. Moopanar	[[File:GK_Moopanar_2010_stamp_of_India.jpg	100px]]	1988	1989
Vazhappady K. Ramamurthy	[[File:Vazhappady K. Ramamurthy.jpg	100px]]	May 1989	January 1995
Kumari Anandan		January 1995	March 1997
K. V. Thangkabalu		March 1997	July 1998
Tindivanam K. Ramamurthy		July 1998	June 2000
E. V. K. S. Elangovan	[[File:E. V. K. S. Elangovan at Marriage Function 12.jpg	100px]]	June 2000	Sep 2002
So. Balakrishnan		Sep 2002	Nov 2003
G. K. Vasan	[[File:GKVasan.jpg	100px]]	Nov 2003	Feb 2006
M. Krishnasamy		Feb 2006	July 2008
K. V. Thangkabalu		July 2008	November 2011
B. S. Gnanadesikan		November 2011	October 2014
E. V. K. S. Elangovan	[[File:E. V. K. S. Elangovan at Marriage Function 12.jpg	100px]]	Nov 2014	Sep 2016
Su. Thirunavukkarasar	[[File:Su. Thirunavukkarasar in 2012.jpg	100px]]	Sep 2016	Feb 2019
K. S. Alagiri		Feb 2019	Feb 2024
K. Selvaperunthagai	[[File:Selvaperunthagai.png	100px]]	Feb 2024	Incumbent

List of chief ministers of Tamil Nadu from the Congress Party

Main article: List of chief ministers of Tamil Nadu

Madras Presidency

Name	Portrait	Took office	Left office
C. Rajagopalachari	[[File:Chakravarthi Rajagopalachari.jpg	100px]]	14 July 1937	29 October 1939
T. Prakasam	[[File:Tanguturi Prakasam 1972 stamp of India.jpg	100px]]	30 April 1946	23 March 1947
O. P. Ramaswamy Reddiyar	[[File:OP Ramaswamy Reddiyar 2010 stamp of India.jpg	100px]]	23 March 1947	6 April 1949
P. S. Kumaraswamy Raja	[[File:Kumarasami raja.jpg	100px]]	6 April 1949	26 January 1950

Madras State

Name	Portrait	Took office	Left office
P. S. Kumaraswamy Raja	[[File:Kumarasami raja.jpg	100px]]	27 January 1950	9 April 1952
C. Rajagopalachari	[[File:Chakravarthi Rajagopalachari.jpg	100px]]	10 April 1952	13 April 1954
K. Kamaraj	[[File:K Kamaraj 1976 stamp of India (cropped).jpg	100px]]	13 April 1954	2 October 1963
M. Bhakthavatsalam	[[File:M. Bhaktavatsalam.jpg	100px]]	2 October 1963	28 February 1967

Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly elections

Year	Party leader	Votes polled	Seats won	Change
in seats	Outcome	Madras Presidency	Madras State	Madras State (Tamil Nadu)	Tamil Nadu
1937	C. Rajagopalachari			New
1946	Tanguturi Prakasam				4
1952	C. Rajagopalachari	6,988,701		New
1957	K. Kamaraj	5,046,576		New
1962	5,848,974		12
1967	M. Bhakthavatsalam	6,293,378		88
1971	Chidambaram Subramaniam	5,513,894		36
1977	G. K. Moopanar	2,994,535		12
1980	3,941,900		4
1984	M. Palaniyandi	3,529,708		30
1989	G. K. Moopanar	4,780,714		35
1991	Vazhappady K. Ramamurthy	3,743,859		34
1996	Kumari Anandan	1,523,340		60
2001	E. V. K. S. Elangovan	696,205		30
2006	M. Krishnasamy	2,765,768		4
2011	K. V. Thangkabalu	3,426,432		29
2016	E. V. K. S. Elangovan	2,774,075		3
2021	K. S. Alagiri	1,976,527		10

• Madras State was completely reorganized into the present state of Tamil Nadu in the year 1956. But the name was changed to Tamil Nadu only in the year 1969

Lok Sabha elections (M.P in Tamilnadu)

Year	Lok Sabha	Seats contested	(+/-) in seats	% of votes	Vote swing	Popular vote
1951	1st	75		36.39%		72,53,452
1957	2nd	41	4	46.52%	10.13	50,94,552
1962	3rd	41		45.26%	1.26	56,23,013
1967	4th	39	28	41.69%	3.57	64,36,710
1971	5th	9	6	12.51%	29.18	19,95,567
1977	6th	15	5	22.27%	9.76	39,77,306
1980	7th	22	6	31.62%	9.35	58,21,411
1984	8th	26	5	40.51%	8.89	87,55,871
1989	9th	28	2	39.86%	0.65	1,05,24,027
1991	10th	28	1	42.57%	2.71	1,05,10,569
1996	11th	29	28	18.26%	24.31	49,65,364
1998	12th	35		4.78%	13.48	12,23,102
1999	13th	11	2	11.10%	6.32	30,22,107
2004	14th	10	8	14.40%	3.30	41,34,255
2009	15th	15	2	15.03%	0.63	45,67,779
2014	16th	39	8	4.37%	10.66	17,50,990
2019	17th	9	8	12.72%	8.35	54,05,674
2024	18th	9	1	10.67%	2.05	46,32,770

References

"Selvaperunthagai appointed Tamil Nadu Congress chief ahead of Lok Sabha polls".
"Selvaperunthagai named State Congress president, Rajesh Kumar new floor leader". The Hindu.
"All India Congress Committee". AICC.
"Selvaperunthagai named State Congress president, Rajesh Kumar new floor leader". The Hindu.
N. S. Gehlot. (1991). "The Congress Party in India: Policies, Culture, Performance". Deep & Deep Publications.
[http://businesstoday.intoday.in/story/mid-day-meal-scheme-on-school-enrollment/1/190746.html "Mid day meal scheme: Food for Thought"]
Sachs, Jeffrey D.. (6 March 2005). "The End of Poverty".
"LS passes bill to provide IIT for eight states.". Deccan Herald.

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