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Describe the programmes and policies of I.N.C.

The INC or the Indian National Congress was political party formed in 1885 as an organization to allow educated Indians to air their views to the British government. It's early aims were political and administrative reforms. Later, it became more nationalistic in nature and was at the forefront of the Indian freedom struggle led by Gandhi. The policy of the INC has been political, social and economic justice for through the policies of socialism. This party has been in power for much of the period post-independence. Secularism has been another of its goals. Liberalism has been its ideology. The policies of the INC have sought to follow these goals through the mechanism of planned economy, poverty removal schemes, public sector undertakings, nationalisation of banks, spending on social welfare and providing employment.

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The Indian National Congress (abbreviated INC, and commonly known as the Congress) is one of the two major political parties in India, the other being the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). It is the largest and one of the oldest democratic political parties in the world.[3][4][5] The party's modern liberal platform is largely considered center-left in the Indian political spectrum. Founded in 1885 by members of the occultist movement Theosophical Society[6]—Allan Octavian Hume, Dadabhai Naoroji, Dinshaw Wacha, Womesh Chandra Bonnerjee, Surendranath Banerjee, Monomohun Ghose, Mahadev Govind Ranade[7] and William Wedderburn—the Indian National Congress became the leader of the Indian Independence Movement, with over 15 million members and over 70 million participants in its struggle against British rule in India. After independence in 1947, it became the nation's dominant political party, led by the Nehru-Gandhi family for the most part; major challenges for party leadership have only recently formed.

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