Uttar Pradesh Congress Committee

Uttar Pradesh Congress Committee
PresidentIncumbent[1]
ChairmanAradhana Misra
HeadquartersLucknow, Uttar Pradesh
Youth wingUttar Pradesh Youth Congress
Women's wingUttar Pradesh Mahila Congress Committee
Ideology
AllianceIndian National Developmental Inclusive Alliance
Seats in Lok Sabha
6 / 80
Seats in Rajya Sabha
0 / 31
Seats in Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly
2 / 403
Seats in Uttar Pradesh Legislative Council
0 / 100
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Uttar Pradesh Congress Committee (UPCC) is the Pradesh Congress Committee (state wing) of the Indian National Congress (INC) serving in the state of Uttar Pradesh.[2] 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 committee has a long history of political influence in the state, having played a significant role in the state's politics during the pre-independence era and after. However, it has faced challenges in recent years, including a decline in electoral support and internal conflicts. Congress Working Committee Appointed Priyanka Gandhi as General Secretary of UP (East), later she has taken charge of General Secretary (AICC). CLP Leader of the Uttar Pradesh Congress Committee is Aradhana Misra 3rd Term MLA from Rampur Khas, Pratapgarh.[3][4]

Structure and Composition

S.No. Name Designation[5] District Allotted
1 Ajay Rai, Former Minister,M.L.A. 5 Terms (1996-2017) Government Of Uttar Pradesh President, Uttar Pradesh Congress Committee
2 Nasimuddin Siddiqui, Ex Cabinet Minister Provincial President, Western Zone Saharanpur, Muzaffarnagar, Shamli, Baghpat, Bulandshahr, Ghaziabad, Meerut, Gautambudh Nagar, Bijnor, Hapur, Amroha, Moradabad, Rampur and Sambhal
3 Ajay Rai, Ex MLA Provincial President, Prayagraj Zone Varanasi, Ghazipur, Chandauli, Jaunpur, Bhadohi, Mirzapur, Sonbhadra, Kaushambi, Allahabad, Pratapgarh, Amethi and Sultanpur
4 Nakul Dubey, Ex MLA Provincial President, Awadh Zone Lucknow, Unnao, Bahraich, Barabanki, Balrampur, Shravasti, Ghonda, Sitapur, Lakhimpur-Khiri, Hardoi and Rae Barely
5 Virendra Chaudhary, MLA Provincial President, Purvanchal Zone Siddharth Nagar, Maharajganj, Gorakhpur, Basti, Kushinagar, Azamgarh, Mau, Deoria, Ballia, Sant Kabir Nagar, Faizabad and Ambedkar Nagar
6 Yogesh Dikshit Provincial President, Brij Zone Mathura, Agra, Firozabad, Etah, Mainpuri, Kasganj, Aligarh, Hathras, Badaun, Bareilly, Shahjahanpur, Pilibhit and Farrukhabad
7 Anil Yadav Provincial President, Bundelkhand and Kanpur Zone Kanpur, Kanpur Dehat, Kannauj, Auraiya, Jalaun, Mahoba, Jhansi, Lalitpur, Banda, Chitrakoot, Fatehpur, Hamirpur and Etawah
8 Dr Jiya Ram Verma Medical Cell President, Uttar Pradesh Congress Committee
9 Priyanka Gupta Spokesperson Spokespersons of Indian National Congress[6]

List of presidents

See also: List of state presidents of the Indian National Congress and List of presidents of the Indian National Congress
S.No. President Portrait Term Tenure Ref.
Salman Khurshid 1999 4 December 2000
1. Sriprakash Jaiswal 4 December 2000 3 July 2002 1 year, 211 days
2. Arun Kumar Singh Munna 3 July 2002 30 May 2003 331 days
3. Jagdambika Pal 30 May 2003 7 November 2004 1 year, 161 days
4. Salman Khurshid 7 November 2004 12 September 2007 2 years, 309 days
5. Rita Bahuguna Joshi 12 September 2007 29 August 2012 4 years, 352 days
6. Nirmal Khatri 29 August 2012 12 July 2016 3 years, 318 days
7. Raj Babbar 12 July 2016 7 October 2019 3 years, 87 days
8. Ajay Kumar Lallu 7 October 2019 16 March 2022 2 years, 160 days
9. Brijlal Khabri 1 October 2022 17 August 2023 320 days
10. Ajay Rai 17 August 2023 Incumbent 1 year, 137 days

Advisory Council to General Secretary

S.No. Name Design
1. Ajay Rai Member
2. Ajay Kapoor Member
3. Anugrah Narayan Singh Member
4. Mohsina Kidwai Member
5. Nasimuddin Siddiqui Member
6. Nirmal Khatri Member
7. Pradeep Mathur Member
8. Pramod Tiwari Member
9. Praveen Aron Member
10. P. L. Punia Member
12. Rajesh Mishra Member
13. Raashid Alvi Member
14. Salman Khurshid Member
15. Sanjay Kapoor Member
16. Vivek Bansal Member
17. Zafar Ali Naqvi Member
18. Akash Singh Chandel Member

Group on Strategy and Planning

S.No. Name Design
1. Brijlal Khabri Member
2. Prashant Shukla Member
3. Rajiv Shukla Member
4. Pradeep Jain Aditya Member

MPs and MLAs from Uttar Pradesh

S.No. Name Constituency
Member of Parliament
1 Rahul Gandhi Raebareli
2 Imran Masood Saharanpur
3 Rakesh Rathore Sitapur
4 Tanuj Punia Barabanki
5 Kishori Lal Sharma Amethi
6 Ujjwal Raman Singh Allahabad
Member of Legislative Assembly
1 Aradhana Mishra Rampur Khas
2 Virendra Chaudhary Pharenda

Electoral performance

Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly

Election Seats up for election Seats contested Seats won Change Votes polled Vote share Swing Resulting Government
1937 228 —
133 / 228
 — — — — Majority Government
1946 228 —
153 / 228
 Increase 20 — — — Supermajority Government
1952 430 429
388 / 430
 Increase 235 8,032,475
47.93 / 100
 — Supermajority Government
1957 430 430
286 / 430
 Decrease 102 9,298,382
42.42 / 100
 Decrease 5.51% Majority Government
1962 430 429
249 / 430
 Decrease 37 6,471,669
36.33 / 100
 Decrease 6.09% Majority Government
1967 425 425
199 / 425
 Decrease 50 6,912,104
32.20 / 100
 Decrease 4.13% Minority Government (till April 1967)
Opposition (till 1968)
1969 425 424
211 / 425
 Increase 12 7,893,152
33.69 / 100
 Increase 1.49% Minority Government (1969-1970; 1971-1973; 1973-1974)
Opposition (1970; 1970-1971)
1974 424 403
215 / 424
 Increase 4 8,868,229
32.29 / 100
 Decrease 1.40% Majority Government
1977 425 395
47 / 425
 Decrease 168 7,592,107
31.94 / 100
 Decrease 0.35% Opposition
1980 425 424
309 / 425
 Increase 262 9,720,767
37.65 / 100
 Increase 5.71% Supermajority Government
1985 425 425
269 / 425
 Decrease 40 11,544,698
39.25 / 100
 Increase 1.60% Majority Government
1989 425 410
94 / 425
 Decrease 175 10,866,428
27.90 / 100
 Decrease 11.35% Opposition
1991 419 413
46 / 419
 Decrease 48 6,480,753
17.32 / 100
 Decrease 10.58% Opposition
1993 422 421
28 / 422
 Decrease 20 7,533,272
15.08 / 100
 Decrease 2.24% Opposition
1996 424 126
33 / 424
 Increase 11 4,626,663
8.35 / 100
 Decrease 6.73% Opposition
2002 403 402
25 / 403
 Decrease 8 4,810,231
8.96 / 100
 Increase 0.61% Opposition
2007 403 393
22 / 403
 Decrease 3 4,489,234
8.61 / 100
 Decrease 0.35% Opposition
2012 403 355
28 / 403
 Increase 6 8,832,895
11.65 / 100
 Increase 3.04% Opposition
2017 403 114
7 / 403
 Decrease 21 5,416,540
6.25 / 100
 Decrease 5.40% Opposition
2022 403 403
2 / 403
 Decrease 5 2,416,540
3.25 / 100
 Decrease 2.40% Opposition

Indian General Election in Uttar Pradesh

Election Seats up for election Seats contested Seats won Change Votes polled Vote share Swing Resulting Government (in Centre) National Leader
1951-1952 86 86
81 / 86
 — 9,047,392
52.99 / 100
 — Supermajority Government Jawaharlal Nehru
1957 86 86
70 / 86
 Decrease 11 10,599,639
46.29 / 100
 Decrease 6.70% Supermajority Government Jawaharlal Nehru
1962 86 86
62 / 86
 Decrease 8 6,842,472
38.20 / 100
 Decrease 8.09% Supermajority Government Jawaharlal Nehru
1967 85 85
47 / 85
 Decrease 15 7,285,130
33.44 / 100
 Decrease 4.76% Majority Government Indira Gandhi
1971 85 78
73 / 85
 Increase 26 9,981,309
48.58 / 100
 Increase 15.14% Supermajority Government Indira Gandhi
1977 85 85
0 / 85
 Decrease 73 7,170,182
24.99 / 100
 Decrease 23.59% Opposition Indira Gandhi
(defeated)
1980 85 85
51 / 85
 Increase 51 10,171,194
35.90 / 100
 Increase 10.91% Supermajority Government Indira Gandhi
1984 85 85
83 / 85
 Increase 32 17,391,831
51.03 / 100
 Increase 15.13% Supermajority Government Rajiv Gandhi
1989 85 84
15 / 85
 Decrease 68 12,393,934
31.77 / 100
 Decrease 19.26% Opposition (till 1990)
External Support for SJP(R) Govt (till 1991)
 		Rajiv Gandhi
1991 85 80
5 / 85
 Decrease 10 6,755,015
18.02 / 100
 Decrease 13.75% Minority Government P. V. Narasimha Rao
1996 85 85
5 / 85
 Steady 3,746,505
8.14 / 100
 Decrease 9.88% Opposition (till Jun 1996)
External Support for UF Govt (till 1998)
 		P. V. Narasimha Rao
1998 85 76
0 / 85
 Decrease 5 3,361,053
6.02 / 100
 Decrease 2.13% Opposition Sitaram Kesri
(defeated)
1999 85 76
10 / 85
 Increase 10 8,001,685
14.72 / 100
 Increase 8.70% Opposition Sonia Gandhi
2004 80 73
9 / 80
 Decrease 1 6,412,293
12.04 / 100
 Decrease 2.68% Minority Government Sonia Gandhi
2009 80 80
21 / 80
 Increase 12 10,113,521
18.25 / 100
 Increase 6.21% Minority Government Sonia Gandhi
2014 80 80
2 / 80
 Decrease 19 6,061,267
7.53 / 100
 Decrease 10.72% Opposition Sonia Gandhi
2019 80 80
1 / 80
 Decrease 1 5,457,352
6.36 / 100
 Decrease 1.17% Opposition Rahul Gandhi
2024 80 17
6 / 80
 Increase 5 8,294,318
9.46 / 100
 Increase 3.10% Opposition Mallikarjun Kharge

List of chief ministers

Premier of United Provinces (1937–50)
No. Portrait Name Constituency Term of office Assembly
Start End Tenure
1 Govind Ballabh Pant NA 17 July 1937 2 November

1939

2 years, 108 days 1st

(1937 Elections)

(1) Govind Ballabh Pant NA 1 April 1946 25 January

1950

3 years, 299 days 2nd

(1946 Elections)

Chief Ministers of Uttar Pradesh
No. Portrait Name Constituency Term of office Assembly
Start End Tenure
1 Govind Ballabh Pant Bareilly Municipality 26 January 1950 20 May 1952 4 years, 335 days Provincial

(1946 Elections)
1st
(1951 election)

20 May 1952 27 December 1954
2 Sampurnanand Varanasi South 28 December 1954 9 April 1957 5 years, 344 days 2nd
(1957 election)
10 April 1957 6 December 1960
3 Chandra Bhanu Gupta Ranikhet South 7 December 1960 14 March 1962 2 years, 298 days 3rd
(1962 election)
14 March 1962 1 October 1963
4 Sucheta Kripalani Menhdawal 2 October 1963 13 March 1967 3 years, 162 days
(3) Chandra Bhanu Gupta Ranikhet 14 March 1967 2 April 1967 19 days 4th
(1967 election)
26 February 1969 17 February 1970 356 days
6 Kamalapati Tripathi Chandauli 4 April 1971 12 June 1973 2 years, 69 days 5th
(1969 election)
7 Hemwati Nandan Bahuguna Bara 8 November 1973 4 March 1974 2 years, 21 days 6th
(1974 election)
5 March 1974 29 November 1975
8 N. D. Tiwari Kashipur 21 January 1976 30 April 1977 1 year, 99 days
9 Vishwanath Pratap Singh Tindwari 9 June 1980 18 July 1982 2 years, 39 days 8th
(1980 election)
10 Sripati Mishra Isauli 19 July 1982 2 August 1984 2 years, 14 days
(8) N. D. Tiwari Kashipur 3 August 1984 10 March 1985 1 year, 52 days 9th
(1985 election)
11 March 1985 24 September 1985
12 Vir Bahadur Singh Paniyara 24 September 1985 24 June 1988 2 years, 274 days
(8) N. D. Tiwari Kashipur 25 June 1988 5 December 1989 1 year, 163 days

See also

References

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  2. ^ Congress in States Archived 18 February 2013 at the Wayback Machine All India Congress Committee website.
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