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With a presumption to reaching scholars worldwide, the Congress is gathering a integer archive that volition transportation reports of its sessions from 1885 onwards, on with documents analysing the party’s electoral show and policies successful government.
The archives volition diagnostic manifestos dating backmost to 1952, AICC (All India Congress Committee) league reports from 1885 to 1993, speeches of Congress presidents from 1885 onwards, and resolutions passed by the Congress Working Committee since its formation. It volition besides see Socialist India, a play published from the Congress bureau astatine 5, Rajendra Prasad Road, betwixt 1970 and 1977, pursuing the party’s divided successful 1969.
Many of the books it carries person been recovered from retention astatine 24 Akbar Road, specified arsenic 1922 study connected ‘Civil Disobedience Enquiry Committee’ of the Congress, resolutions connected overseas argumentation of the enactment from 1947 to 1966 and Resolutions connected “States reorganisation” from 1920-1956 among others.
Selected books from the Dr. Manmohan Singh Research Centre and Library volition besides beryllium digitised. The library, inaugurated connected Friday by Congress Parliamentary Party chairperson Sonia Gandhi successful the beingness of Dr. Singh’s woman Gursharan Kaur, enactment president Mallikarjun Kharge and erstwhile enactment main Rahul Gandhi, houses astir 1,200 books. These see works by Mahatma Gandhi, Jawaharlal Nehru, Sardar Patel, Vithalbhai Patel, Rammanohar Lohia, Acharya Narendra Dev, G.B. Pant, N.V. Gadgil, Motilal Nehru and B.R. Ambedkar, among others.
“A integer oregon carnal room is not a substitute for governmental activism, but is surely an instrumentality of accusation to enactment governmental activism,” Congress wide caput (communications) Jairam Ramesh said. Mr. Ramesh, who has driven the task and donated a important fig of books, noted, “The ideological statement is presently polarised betwixt the Left and the Right. We person to reclaim that cardinal space.”
The room besides houses respective volumes of The Encyclopaedia of the Indian National Congress, a compilation of enactment history, commentaries, speeches, and minutes of Working Committee meetings. The enactment was enactment unneurotic by Abdul Moin Zaidi, a librarian astatine the Congress office, and his wife, Shahida Gufran Zaidi.
