PREAMBLE

For 25 consecutive years ,from 1952 to 1977 ,the people of India entrusted the governance of the country at the center to the Indian National Congress. Five successive Congress Governments served out their full term assuring to the country stability ,progress and radical reform without social disruption.

In 1977,the Janata Party formed the first-ever non-Congress Government.It broke up in less than 2 ½ years. Again ,from January 1980 to November 1989 there were two Congress Governments,each of which served out their full term .

Thereafter ,the nation went to the e polls to elect the Ninth Lok Sabha .the Congress emerged as the largest single party.However the number of seats it won fell short of an absolute majority .In view of this verdict ,the Congress decided to take its claim to form a government at the center.

Instead ,in keeping with the norms of democracy ,it offered its constructive cooperation to the government of the day,as befits its stature as the country's premier political party ?

Although the National Front had secured far fewer seats than the Congress ,it sought to form the government with support from the outside of the Bharatiya Janata Party and the Left Front.However ,there was no common ideology outlook or programme between the National Front and it's outside supporters .Nor was there any ideological or programmatic compatibility between the outside supporters themselves.Indeed there was a little in common even less among the various factions of the Janata Dal and even less among the diverse parties constituting the National front.

The unnatural coming together of all these incompatible factions and parties was inherently flawed .So they collapsed -that too in under a year.

In eleven short months ,the National Front government collapsed ignominiously, brought down by the weight of it's inherent contradictions ,torn asunder by egocentric personality clashes ,ripped apart by the unprincipled pursuit of vote banks.

The shameful end was written to the every beginning .For ,right at the start of their eleven months of misgovernance ,the leaders of the National front deceived each other in their maneuverings to capture the seats of power. That was the ethos that characterized the National front Government till the end: endless intrigue, devious deals ,marriages of convenience and the shameless backstabbing of colleagues .Casteism ,communalism corruption ,violence and every kind of opportunism were the weapons they deployed against each other.

They fell ,as they were bound to fall .Tragically,they also brought the country down with them. IN it's eleven months of gross misrule ,the National Front Government set the country on Flames and brought it to the brink of the civil war.Caste was pitted against case,community against community,class against ,linguistic group against linguistic group ,rural India against urban India .Never before had the independent India found itself in the throes of such deadly discord.Prices spiraled.Development suffered .Anti poverty programmes staggered. And the employment programmes ,like the JAWAHAR Rozgar Yojana and the Nehru Rozgar Yojana came to a stansdstill.naturally,the country heaved an immense sigh of relief of relief when this government of disruption fell. In falling ,the Janata Dal split into two ,a new group being born under the name ansd style of Janata Dal(JD).

Responsible opinion in the country was the considered view that the atmosphere the violence and unrest which then permeated the country was not conducive to holding immediate elections to the LokSabha ,especially if another Government could at all formed .In keeping with this larger national interest ,the congress agreed to supprt from The outside the Janata Dal (S) Government improvised by Shri Chandra Shekhar.

No one rated highly the prospects of survival of this government ,composed as it was of a breakaway group of the original Janata Dal ,but the needs of the time seemed to go To polls to elect the Tenth Lok Sabha. This,then,is the storyof the ninth lok sabha -the shortest induration in the history of our parliamentary democracy -and off the Governments which it threw up,lasting a mere 11 months and 4 months respectively.

There are crucial lessons to be learnt from this experience -for electoral and elected alike. The most important of these is that the Congress alone is capable of providing stable government at the center. For 40 of our 44 years as an independent nation ,India has had Congress governments. Every Congress governments has provided has provided strong and stable governance to ensure progress and development.

There have been only 4 congress Prime ministers in 40 years of congress rule.There have been 4 non - congress Prime minister in 4 years of non congress rule. For 40 of the last 44 years ,the congress has patiently built the country.For 4 of last year 44 years,non-congress government have systematically wrecked the country. Stability does not mean stagnation.stability does not mean preserving the status quo.Stability does not mean the service of the vested interests. Stability brings change.stability brings growth and development .stability brings justice for the poor and opportunity for the deprived .stability brings peaceful,non-violent transformation stability brings the respect of the world.

If you want Indiaa to be strong and self relient,

If you want India to be peaceful and harmonious,

If you want India to be rid of poverty and unemployment,

If you want the voice of India to be heard in the world,

There is only one-way forward: vote congress!

The vision of a political party is crucial to its existence. The Indian National Congress is just not another political party jostling and clamouring for the governmental power. The Congress is a massive movement that has identified itself with the hopes and aspirations ,the joys and sorrows of the great Indian people.Unlike many other parties whose advent and the existence are confined to,and dependent on, electoral vicissitudes the congress movement advances with the time ,regardless of particular electoral events, This is the basic truth about this organization .Ot has it aroots in the ancient philosophy and ideas and culture,in historical development through the ages ,in the ideas and thoughts of our sages and thinkers and of the leaders of our freedom movement ./it is the party that authored the constitution of India.

The vision of Indai has always been cosmic,holistic,integrated and harmonious.Out of this holistic and harmonius vision were born our concept of democracy , socialism and non-alignment. A synthesis of our ancient heritage and modern thoughts presents the only viable frame-work through which our people can achieve our goals of social .economic and political justice; liberty of thoughts ,expression. belief, faith and worship;and equality of atatus and opportunity.This is the congress vision. .