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{{Infobox Indian Political Party

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| party_name = Gujarat Pradesh Congress Committee

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| party_logo =180px

| president = Shaktisinh Gohil

| chairman = Amit Chavda

| headquarters = Rajiv Gandhi Bhawan, Ahmedabad - 380006, Gujarat

|Political position=Centre

| alliance = Indian National Developmental Inclusive Alliance

| ideology = {{ubl|Populism|Social liberalism|Social democracy|Secularism}}

| youth = Gujarat Youth Congress

| women = Gujarat Pradesh Mahila Congress Committee

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| rajyasabha_seats = {{Composition bar|1|11|hex=#00BFFF}}

| state_seats_name = Gujarat Legislative Assembly

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| website = [http://www.incgujarat.com// INC Gujarat]

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The Gujarat Pradesh Congress Committee (GPCC) is the state unit of the Indian National Congress in Gujarat. 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. Shaktisinh Gohil is the president of the Committee.{{cite web |url=https://www.inc.in/en/pcc-presidents |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190401090834/https://www.inc.in/en/pcc-presidents |archive-date=1 April 2019 |title=Congress Party PCC Presidents - Indian National Congress}} It has 1,862 seats in various urban and rural local bodies in Gujarat.{{Cite web |title=BJP Dominates, AAP Impresses Again In Local Gujarat Polls |url=https://www.ndtv.com/india-news/gujarat-local-body-election-results-2021-strong-bjp-start-in-early-leads-as-votes-counted-for-gujarat-local-polls-2381663 |access-date=2022-09-20 |website=NDTV}} Its office is located at Rajiv Gandhi Bhawan, Ahmedabad. It is the single major opposition party against the Bharatiya Janata Party in Gujarat. It has participated in every Gujarat Legislative Assembly election since 1962, the first election in the independent state.

History

= Pre-independence =

It was formed in 1920 and its first and longest running president was Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel. The GPCC would organize Indian nationalist campaigns during the Indian freedom struggle, and after independence in 1947, it became responsible for supplying candidates of the Congress in local and state election campaigns.{{Cite journal|last=Jaffrelot|first=Christophe|date=2017-10-10|title=The Congress in Gujarat (1917–1969): Conservative Face of a Progressive Party|journal=Studies in Indian Politics|volume=5|issue=2|pages=248–261|language=en|doi=10.1177/2321023017727982|s2cid=158248463}}

= Post-independence =

The party contested its first elections in independent Gujarat in 1962, under the leadership of Jivran Mehta, who won with a strong majority of 113 seats. The party lost a number of seats in 1967, under the leadership of Hitendra Desai, albeit still had a simple majority. However, soon after the election Hitendra Desai defected to the Indian National Congress (Organisation) camp and formed the government with the party. In 1971, president's rule was declared and continued up to the 1972 election. The Congress swept the 1972 election under Ghanshyam Oza, winning 140 of the then-168 seats in the Gujarat Legislative Assembly. In 1973, Chimanbhai Patel replaced Oza as chief minister. The Chimanbai Patel government was dissolved following popular protests against the government as a part of the Navnirman Andolan in 1973-74, against economic crises and corruption in public life. The protests were successful and resulted in the dissolution of the government in 1974. President's rule was established until the next elections. In 1975, the Congress performed badly in the newly-held elections, winning only 75 out of 182 seats. The opposition parties formed the government under Bahubhai J. Patel of the INC(O). However, president's rule was declared in 1976 with Congress forming the government. This government lasted for only 3 months with the Janata Party, the new opposition bloc forming the government again. In 1980 the Congress stormed back to power with over 140 seats under Madhav Solanki. Madhav Solanki's government was extremely popular, and his government returned to power with a bigger majority in 1985. In 1990, the Congress got its lowest tally of seats in the Gujarat assembly ever, at 33. It was badly routed by the BJP-Janata Dal coalition. The Congress however came back to power in 1994. In the 1995 elections, the Congress again lost extremely bad, albeit performed better than the last election, with the BJP securing a huge majority of 121 seats. The Congress continued to perform relatively dismally in various Gujarat elections until 2015, when the Congress stormed into power in many rural local bodies of Gujarat, wiping out the BJP. The Congress also finally managed to make a major breakthrough in the 2017 Gujarat Legislative elections, reducing the number of BJP seats to 99, although it still lost the election by a few seats.

Office

Gujarat Pradesh Congress started functioning at Khamasa, Ahmedabad under leadership of Kantilal Ghiya, the first president.{{cite web |title=From Bombay to Delhi |year = 1970|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=62sFAAAAMAAJ&dq=Kantilal+Ghiya&pg=PA108 |access-date=10 April 2022}} In 1971, it was shifted to Shahpur and then to Hawawala Blocks on Ashram Road, Ahmedabad. During 1977, it was again shifted to Khanpur, which till recently was Ahmedabad City Congress Committee (INC DCC Office). Subsequently to Vikram Chambers on Ashram Road. Finally, the place where Rajiv Bhawan stands at present was handed over to Congress by Hitendrabhai Desai.{{cite web |title=GUJARAT PRADESH CONGRESS |url=https://www.incgujarat.com/contact/ |publisher=Indian National Congress |access-date=10 April 2022}} Gujarat Pradesh Congress Committee is running from this premises, which was inaugurated on 28 December 2006 by Ahmedbhai Patel, Rajya Sabha MP.

Electoral performance

=Legislative Assembly elections=

class="wikitable" style="text-align:center"
Style="background-color:{{party color|Indian National Congress}};color:white" | Year

!Style="background-color:{{party color|Indian National Congress}};color:white" | Seats contested

!Style="background-color:{{party color|Indian National Congress}};color:white" | Seats won

!Style="background-color:{{party color|Indian National Congress}};color:white" | Change in seats

!Style="background-color:{{party color|Indian National Congress}};color:white" | Percentage of votes

!Style="background-color:{{party color|Indian National Congress}};color:white" | Vote swing

! Style="background-color:{{party color|Indian National Congress}}; color:white" | Outcome

1962

|154

|{{Composition bar|113|154|{{party color|Indian National Congress}}}}

|{{increase}} 113

|50.84

|N/A

|{{yes2|Government}}

1967

|168

|{{Composition bar|93|168|{{party color|Indian National Congress}}}}

|{{decrease}} 20

|45.96

|{{decrease}} 4.88

|{{partial|Government, later opposition}}

1972

|168

|{{Composition bar|140|168|{{party color|Indian National Congress}}}}

|{{increase}} 47

|50.93

|{{increase}} 4.97

|{{yes2|Government}}

1975

|182

|{{Composition bar|75|182|{{party color|Indian National Congress}}}}

|{{decrease}} 65

|40.70

|{{decrease}} 10.23

|{{partial|Opposition, briefly back in govt and later in oppn again}}

1980

|182

|{{Composition bar|141|182|{{party color|Indian National Congress}}}}

|{{increase}} 66

|51.04

|{{increase}} 10.34

|{{yes2|Government}}

1985

|182

|{{Composition bar|149|182|{{party color|Indian National Congress}}}}

|{{increase}} 9

|55.55

|{{increase}} 4.51

|{{yes2|Government}}

1990

|182

|{{Composition bar|33|182|{{party color|Indian National Congress}}}}

|{{decrease}} 116

|30.74

|{{decrease}} 24.81

|{{partial|Opposition, later government}}

1995

|182

|{{Composition bar|45|182|{{party color|Indian National Congress}}}}

|{{increase}} 12

|32.86

|{{increase}} 2.12

|{{partial|Opposition, later government}}

1998

|182

|{{Composition bar|53|182|{{party color|Indian National Congress}}}}

|{{increase}} 8

|34.85

|{{increase}} 1.99

|{{no2|Opposition}}

2002

|182

|{{Composition bar|51|182|{{party color|Indian National Congress}}}}

|{{decrease}} 2

|39.28

|{{increase}} 4.43

|{{no2|Opposition}}

2007

| 173

|{{Composition bar|59|182|{{party color|Indian National Congress}}}}

|{{increase}} 8

|38.00

|{{decrease}} 1.28

|{{no2|Opposition}}

2012

| 176

|{{Composition bar|61|182|{{party color|Indian National Congress}}}}

|{{increase}} 2

|38.93

|{{increase}} 0.93

|{{no2|Opposition}}

2017

|179

|{{Composition bar|77|182|{{party color|Indian National Congress}}}}

|{{increase}} 16

|41.44

|{{increase}} 2.57

|{{no2|Opposition}}

2022

|179

|{{Composition bar|17|182|{{party color|Indian National Congress}}}}

|{{decrease}} 60

|27.22

|{{decrease}} 14.12

|{{no2|Opposition}}

=Lok Sabha elections=

class="wikitable" style="text-align:center"
Style="background-color:{{party color|Indian National Congress}};color:white" | Year

!Style="background-color:{{party color|Indian National Congress}};color:white" | Legislature

!Style="background-color:{{party color|Indian National Congress}};color:white" | Seats won

!Style="background-color:{{party color|Indian National Congress}};color:white" | Change in seats

!Style="background-color:{{party color|Indian National Congress}};color:white" | Percentage of votes

!Style="background-color:{{party color|Indian National Congress}};color:white" | Vote swing

! Style="background-color:{{party color|Indian National Congress}}; color:white" | Outcome

1962

|3rd Lok Sabha

|{{Composition bar|16|22|{{party color|Indian National Congress}}}}

|N/A

|N/A

|N/A

|{{yes2|Government}}

1967

|4th Lok Sabha

|{{Composition bar|11|24|{{party color|Indian National Congress}}}}

|{{decrease}} 5

|N/A

|N/A

|{{yes2|Government}}

1971

|5th Lok Sabha

|{{Composition bar|11|24|{{party color|Indian National Congress}}}}

|{{steady}}

|N/A

|N/A

|{{yes2|Government}}

1977

|6th Lok Sabha

|{{Composition bar|10|26|{{party color|Indian National Congress}}}}

|{{decrease}} 1

|N/A

|N/A

|{{no2|Opposition}}

1980

|7th Lok Sabha

|{{Composition bar|25|26|{{party color|Indian National Congress}}}}

|{{increase}} 15

|N/A

|N/A

|{{yes2|Government}}

1984

|8th Lok Sabha

|{{Composition bar|24|26|{{party color|Indian National Congress}}}}

|{{decrease}} 1

|N/A

|N/A

|{{yes2|Government}}

1989

|9th Lok Sabha

|{{Composition bar|3|26|{{party color|Indian National Congress}}}}

|{{decrease}} 21

|N/A

|N/A

|{{no2|Opposition}}

1991

|10th Lok Sabha

|{{Composition bar|5|26|{{party color|Indian National Congress}}}}

|{{increase}} 2

|N/A

|N/A

|{{yes2|Government}}

1996

|11th Lok Sabha

|{{Composition bar|10|26|{{party color|Indian National Congress}}}}

|{{increase}} 5

|N/A

|N/A

|{{partial|Opposition, later outside support for UF}}

1998

|12th Lok Sabha

|{{Composition bar|7|26|{{party color|Indian National Congress}}}}

|{{decrease}} 3

|N/A

|N/A

|{{no2|Opposition}}

1999

| 13th Lok Sabha

|{{Composition bar|6|26|{{party color|Indian National Congress}}}}

|{{decrease}} 1

|N/A

|N/A

|{{no2|Opposition}}

2004

| 14th Lok Sabha

|{{Composition bar|12|26|{{party color|Indian National Congress}}}}

|{{increase}} 6

|N/A

|N/A

|{{yes2|Government}}

2009

|15th Lok Sabha

|{{Composition bar|11|26|{{party color|Indian National Congress}}}}

|{{decrease}} 1

|N/A

|N/A

|{{yes2|Government}}

2014

|16th Lok Sabha

|{{Composition bar|0|26|{{party color|Indian National Congress}}}}

|{{decrease}} 11

|32.9

|N/A

|{{no2|Opposition}}

2019

|17th Lok Sabha

|{{Composition bar|0|26|{{party color|Indian National Congress}}}}

|{{steady}}

|32.11

|{{decrease}} 0.79

|{{no2|Opposition}}

2024

|18th Lok Sabha

|{{Composition bar|1|26|{{party color|Indian National Congress}}}}

{{increase}} 1

|31.24

|{{decrease}} 0.87

|{{no2|Opposition}}

Office bearers

class="wikitable sortable" style="width:50%;"

!Name

!Wing/Position

!Department

! Ref(s)

Shaktisinh Gohil

|State President

|N/A

|{{Cite web |title=Congress Party PCC Presidents |url=https://inc.in/ |access-date=2022-09-20 |website=Indian National Congress |language=en}}

Mukul Wasnik

|State in-charge

|N/A

|{{Cite news |date=2022-06-01 |title=Gujarat Congress in-charge Raghu Sharma lashes out at Hardik Patel |work=Business Standard India |url=https://www.business-standard.com/article/politics/gujarat-congress-in-charge-raghu-sharma-lashes-out-at-hardik-patel-122060101501_1.html |access-date=2022-09-20}}

Gita ben Patel

|State women's wing chief

| Mahila gujarat congress

|{{Cite web |date=2022-03-28 |title=Gujarat: Jenny Thummar appointed Mahila Congress chief |url=https://indianexpress.com/article/cities/ahmedabad/jenny-thummar-appointed-mahila-congress-chief-7839549/ |access-date=2022-11-11 |website=The Indian Express |language=en}}

Dr Manish Doshi

|Main Stream

| chief Spokesperson and convenor

|{{cite web|url=https://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/congress-picks-new-gujarat-unit-chief-lop-101638471943524.html |title=Congress picks new Gujarat unit chief, LoP |date=3 December 2021 }}

Manhar Patel

|Main Stream

|Spokesperson

|{{Cite web |date=2022-01-28 |title=Gujarat School Declares Hindutva as the National Religion, Devanagari as the National Script |url=https://www.newsclick.in/Gujarat-School-Declares-Hindutva-National-Religion-Devanagari-National-Script |access-date=2022-03-10 |website=NewsClick |language=en}}

Juned Patel

|Chairman

|Minority Department Social Media

|{{Cite web |title=પેટ્રોલ – ડીઝલ થી લઇ રાંધણ ગેસ નો ભાવ વધારો સામાન્ય થી લઈ ધનવાનો ને અસર કરે છે:- જુનેદ પટેલ |url=https://gramintoday.com/breaking-news/%e0%aa%aa%e0%ab%87%e0%aa%9f%e0%ab%8d%e0%aa%b0%e0%ab%8b%e0%aa%b2-%e0%aa%a1%e0%ab%80%e0%aa%9d%e0%aa%b2-%e0%aa%a5%e0%ab%80-%e0%aa%b2%e0%aa%87-%e0%aa%b0%e0%aa%be%e0%aa%82%e0%aa%a7%e0%aa%a3-%e0%aa%97/ |access-date=2022-04-25 |website=Gramin Today |language=en}}

= Working presidents =

List of presidents

class="wikitable sortable" style="text-align:center;"

! Style="background-color:#00BFFF; color:white" | S.no

! Style="background-color:#00BFFF; color:white" | President

! Style="background-color:#00BFFF; color:white" | Portrait

! Style="background-color:#00BFFF; color:white" colspan=2 | Term

1.

|B. K. Gadhvi

|

|2004

|2005

2.

|Bharatsinh Madhavsinh Solanki

|

|2006

|2008

3.

|Siddharth Patel

|

|2008

|2011

4.

|Arjun Modhwadia

|

|2011

|2015

(2).

|Bharatsinh Madhavsinh Solanki

|

|2015

|March 2018

5.

|Amit Chavda

|

|March 2018

|6 December 2021

6.

|Jagdish Thakor

|

|6 December 2021

|9 June 2023

7.

|Shaktisinh Gohil

|

|9 June 2023

|Incumbent

See also

References

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