Tamil Nadu Congress Committee

Tamil Nadu Congress Committee
President	K. Selvaperunthagai[1]
Chairman	S. Rajeshkumar [2]
Headquarters	Sathyamurthy Bhavan, General Patters road, Chennai-600002, Tamil Nadu
Youth wing	Tamil Nadu Youth Congress
Women's wing	Tamil Nadu Mahila Congress Committee
Ideology	Populism Social liberalism Democratic socialism Social democracy Secularism
Alliance	Secular Progressive Alliance (SPA) Indian National Developmental Inclusive Alliance (INDIA) (National Level)
Seats in Lok Sabha	9 / 39
Seats in Rajya Sabha	1 / 18
Seats in Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly	18 / 234
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Tamil Nadu Congress Committee (TNCC) is the wing of Indian National Congress serving in Tamil Nadu.^[3] 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 present president is K. Selvaperunthagai.^[4]

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 underprivileged and socially unprivileged sections of society. The party primarily endorses social liberalism (seeks to balance individual liberty and social justice).

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.^[5]

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.

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.

Tamil Nadu Congress Pioneered the first Midday Meal Scheme in India in the Year 1953.^[6] 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.^[7] During the TNCC tenure, an IIT and was opened in the state.^[8]

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.

S.no	President	Portrait	Term
1.	C. Rajagopalachari		1931	1936
2.	S. Satyamurti		1936	1939
3.	Tanguturi Prakasam		1939	1946
4.	K. Kamaraj		1946	1952
5.	P. Subbarayan		1952	1952
(4.	K. Kamaraj		1952	1954
6.	G.K. Moopanar		1976	1980
7.	M. P. Subramaniam		1980	1983
8.	M. Palaniyandi		1983	1988
(6).	G.K. Moopanar		1988	1989
9.	Vazhappady K. Ramamurthy		May 1989	January 1995
10.	Kumari Anandan		January 1995	March 1997
11.	K. V. Thangkabalu		March 1997	July 1998
12.	Tindivanam K. Ramamurthy		July 1998	June 2000
13.	E. V. K. S. Elangovan		June 2000	Sep 2002
14.	So. Balakrishnan		Sep 2002	Nov 2003
15.	G. K. Vasan		Nov 2003	Feb 2006
16.	M. Krishnasamy		Feb 2006	July 2008
(11).	K. V. Thangkabalu		July 2008	November 2011
17.	B. S. Gnanadesikan		November 2011	October 2014
(13).	E. V. K. S. Elangovan		Nov 2014	Sep 2016
18.	Su. Thirunavukkarasar		Sep 2016	Feb 2019
19.	K. S. Alagiri		Feb 2019	Feb 2024
20.	K. Selvaperunthagai		Feb 2024	Incumbent

Name	Portrait	Took office	Left office
C. Rajagopalachari		14 July 1937	29 October 1939
T. Prakasam		30 April 1946	23 March 1947
O. P. Ramaswamy Reddiyar		23 March 1947	6 April 1949
P. S. Kumaraswamy Raja		6 April 1949	26 January 1950

Name	Portrait	Took office	Left office
P. S. Kumaraswamy Raja		27 January 1950	9 April 1952
C. Rajagopalachari		10 April 1952	13 April 1954
K. Kamaraj		13 April 1954	2 October 1963
M. Bhakthavatsalam		2 October 1963	28 February 1967

Year	Party leader	Votes polled	Seats won	Change in seats	Outcome
Madras Presidency
1937	C. Rajagopalachari		159 / 215	New	Government
1946	Tanguturi Prakasam		163 / 215	4	Government
Madras State
1952	C. Rajagopalachari	6,988,701	152 / 375	New	Government
Madras State (Tamil Nadu)
1957	K. Kamaraj	5,046,576	151 / 205	New	Government
1962		5,848,974	139 / 206	12	Government
1967	M. Bhakthavatsalam	6,293,378	51 / 234	88	Opposition
Tamil Nadu
1971	Chidambaram Subramaniam	5,513,894	15 / 234	36	Opposition (INC+)
1977	G. K. Moopanar	2,994,535	27 / 234	12	Opposition (INC+)
1980		3,941,900	31 / 234	4	Opposition (DMK INC+)
1984	M. Palaniyandi	3,529,708	61 / 234	30	Government (AIADMK INC+)
1989	G. K. Moopanar	4,780,714	26 / 234	35	Opposition (INC+)
1991	Vazhappady K. Ramamurthy	3,743,859	60 / 234	34	Government (AIADMK INC+)
1996	Kumari Anandan	1,523,340	0 / 234	60	Opposition (AIADMK INC+)
2001	E. V. K. S. Elangovan	696,205	30 / 234	30	Government (AIADMK INC+)
2006	M. Krishnasamy	2,765,768	34 / 234	4	Government (DPA)
2011	K. V. Thangkabalu	3,426,432	5 / 234	29	Opposition (DMK INC+)
2016	E. V. K. S. Elangovan	2,774,075	8 / 234	3	Opposition (DMK INC+)
2021	K. S. Alagiri	1,976,527	18 / 234	10	Government (SPA)

• 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

Election Year	Election	Won	Change of Seats	Alliance	Result
1951	1st election	35 / 75	New	INC+	Government
1957	2nd election	24 / 34	11	INC+	Government
1962	3rd election	31 / 41	7	INC+	Government
1967	4th election	3 / 39	28	INC+	Government
1971	5th election	1 / 39	2	DMK+	Government
1977	6th election	14 / 39	13	AIADMK+	Opposition
1980	7th election	20 / 39	6	DMK+	Government
1984	8th election	25 / 39	5	AIADMK+	Government
1989	9th election	27 / 39	2	AIADMK+	Opposition
1991	10th election	28 / 39	1	AIADMK+	Government
1996	11th election	0 / 39	28	AIADMK+	Lost
1998	12th election	0 / 39		INC+	Lost
1999	13th election	2 / 39	2	AIADMK+	Opposition
2004	14th election	10 / 39	8	UPA	Government
2009	15th election	8 / 39	2	UPA	Government
2014	16th election	0 / 39	8	UPA	Lost
2019	17th election	8 / 39	8	UPA	Opposition
2024	18th election	9 / 39	1	I.N.D.I.A.	Opposition

• Congress Working Committee
• All India Congress Committee (AICC)
• Pradesh Congress Committee
• Indian Youth Congress
• All India Mahila Congress
• National Students Union of India

• INC Tamil Nadu website