Gir Somnath District Congress Committee

CONGRESS IS 125 YEARS OLD PARTY.

It has navigated the country through all odds, not to mention the freedom struggle. Be it very delicate economic crisis or any social upheaval or a threat to the security of the nation. It has given the direction to the nation in a very positive manner.

Every citizen of the country, not only knows the true spirit of Congress, but he feels a sense of security with Congress behind him. Every caring citizen of India feels a natural affinity with Congress. Congress has led the country from freedom to industrialization to liberalization to globalization and is carrying the country forward on the path of being a super power.

Our Values

DEMOCRACY

"In the democracy which I have envisaged, a democracy established by non-violence, there will be equal freedom for all. Everybody will be his own master. It is to join a struggle for such democracy that I invite you today."--- Mahatma Gandhi during his Quit India speech, August 8, 1942.

NATIONALISM

"Let us always remember that we are all children of our mother country. Indeed, I have never worked in any other spirit than that I am an Indian, and owe duty to my country and all my countrymen. Whether I am a Hindu, a Mohammedan, a Parsi, a Christian, or any other creed, I am above all an Indian. Our country is India; our nationality is Indian."--- Shri Dadabhai Naoroji during his Presidential Address at the Congress Session, 1893, Lahore 

SECULARISM

"We talk about a secular state in India. It is perhaps not very easy even to find a good word in Hindi for ‘secular’. Some people think it means something opposed to religion. That obviously is not correct. What it means is that it is the state which honours all faiths equally and gives them equal opportunities; that, as a state, it does not allow itself to be attached to one faith or religion, which then becomes the state religion.” --- Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru (foreward to Dharma Nirapeksh Raj by Raghunath Singh) "Secularism and democracy are the twin pillars of our State the very foundations of our society. From time immemorial, the vast majority of our people are wedded to concepts of secularism, religious tolerance, peace and humanity." --- Smt. Indira Gandhi's Address in Parliament on December 22, 1967

INCLUSIVE GROWTH

"We have achieved political freedom but our revolution is not yet complete and is still in progress, for political freedom without the assurance of the right to live and to pursue happiness, which economic progress alone can bring, can never satisfy a people. Therefore, our immediate task is to raise the living standards of our people, to remove all that comes in the way of the economic growth of the nation. We have tackled the major problem of India, as it is today the major problem of Asia, the agrarian problem. Much that was feudal in our system of land tenure is being changed so that the fruits of cultivation should go to the tiller of the soil and that he may be secure in the possession of the land he cultivates. In a country of which agriculture is still the principal industry, this reform is essential not only for the well-being and contentment of the individual but also for the stability of society."--- Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru during his address to the US Congress October 13, 1949.

SOCIAL JUSTICE

“So long as you do not achieve social liberty, whatever freedom is provided by the law is of no avail to you.”--- Babasaheb Dr B.R Ambedkar