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Lakshadweep Territorial Congress Committee was merged into this article. The discussion was closed on 17 May 2025 with a consensus to merge. The original page is now a redirect to this article. Its history now serves to provide attribution for the content in this article, and it must not be deleted as long as this article exists.

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Indian National Congress was a Social sciences and society good articles nominee, but did not meet the good article criteria at the time. There may be suggestions below for improving the article. Once these issues have been addressed, the article can be renominated. Editors may also seek a reassessment of the decision if they believe there was a mistake.

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Current status: Former good article nominee

This article was nominated for merging with India National Congress on May 2020. The result of the discussion (permanent link) was Oppose merge.

Electoral symbol

The History section reads: The "Old Congress" retained the party symbol of a pair of bullocks carrying a yoke while Indira's breakaway faction was given a new symbol of a cow with a suckling calf by the Election Commission as the party election symbol. However, the Old Congress and other related election articles, the symbol shown differs from what is claimed here. 456legend talk 20:38, 24 April 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Alliances

In the state of Tamil Nadu and Puducherry, INC has officially moved from SPA (DMK-led Alliance) to TVK-led Alliance. Kindly, update the same. ~2026-22758-52 (talk) 09:49, 6 May 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Extended-confirmed-protected edit request on 15 May 2026

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Replace with this File:CM C Joseph Vijay Official Portrait.jpg ~2026-23412-42 (talk) 05:39, 15 May 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Not done: The file you are seeking to insert has been deleted. Day Creature (talk) 03:54, 16 May 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Done: File has been replaced now. GuesanLoyalist (talk) 00:26, 29 May 2026 (UTC)[reply]

I believe that "centre-left" should be added, therefore making the position "centre to centre-left"

Here are the sources backing it:

It would be WP:UNDUE if we didn't do so in my personal opinion. GuesanLoyalist (talk) 10:10, 27 May 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Worldwidejournals.com is deprecated btw. Yue🌙 (talk) 17:35, 28 May 2026 (UTC)[reply]

thanks for telling me GuesanLoyalist (talk) 00:19, 29 May 2026 (UTC)[reply]

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Changing Number of States and Union Territories Governed from 7 to 4. Swasti Desai (talk) 22:59, 6 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Not done: The entry is for states and union territories in government, which includes the 3 coalition governments the INC is part of. Danski454 (talk) 00:08, 7 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]