The All India Congress Committee (AICC) is the

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or the central decision-making assembly of the

Indian National Congress The Indian National Congress (INC), colloquially the Congress Party but often simply the Congress, is a political party in India with widespread roots. Founded in 1885, it was the first modern nationalist movement to emerge in the British Em ...

. It is composed of members elected from state-level

Pradesh Congress Committee The elected committee that directs the Indian National Congress in an Indian state is known as Pradesh Congress Committee (PCC). It is elected by card-holding members of the Congress and in turn elects state president and delegates to the All I ...

s and can have as many as a thousand members. It is the AICC that elects members of the

Congress Working Committee The Congress Working Committee (CWC) is the executive committee of the Indian National Congress. It was formed in December 1920 at Nagpur session of INC which was headed by C. Vijayaraghavachariar. It typically consists of fifteen members electe ...

and the

Congress President The President of the Indian National Congress is the chief executive of the Indian National Congress (INC), one of the principal political parties in India. Constitutionally, the president is elected by an electoral college composed of members ...

, who is also the head of the AICC. The organisational executives of the AICC are several general-secretaries selected by the

and the members of the Congress Working Committee.

History

Basically the Original headquarters of AICC were located at

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, however after

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in 1947, it was shifted to 7, Jantar Mantar Marg, near

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and subsequently to 24 Akbar Road, right behind

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, after the 1969 Congress split, under

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. Today, its institutional records are part of the Archives at the

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, at

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, Delhi.

Organisation

The Organisation is headed by the

, who is elected by the All India Congress Committee. The AICC on the other hand is composed of delegates sent by the various

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–level

s, who themselves have been elected or nominated to their respective Pradesh Congress Committee from the district and panchayat level party units. Besides the President, these delegates also elect the

, which is the apex decision making body of the organisation. Several General Secretaries are also appointed by the President to run the functioning of the organisation.

AICC office bearers

President

Treasurer

General secretaries

In-Charges

Secretaries with assigned work

* Dr. Chandan Yadav * Zenith Sangma * Virendra Singh Rathore * Pradyut Bordoloi * Charles Pyngrope * Christopher Tilak * CD Meyyappan * Govind Singh Rajput * Gurkeerat Singh Kotli * Tarun Kumar * BM Sandeep Kumar * Challa Vamshi Chand Reddy * Prakash Joshi * Sampath Kumar * Sarat Raut * Dr. Sake Sailjanath * Saleem Ahmed * Sreenivasan Krishnan * Sonal Patel * Dr. Sudhanshu Tripathi * Sudhir Sharma * Juned Patel

Joint Secretaries

Departments

Communication Department

Senior Spokespersons

Spokespersons

Congress in Pradesh (States)

* Andaman and Nicobar PCC * Andhra Pradesh PCC * Arunachal Pradesh PCC * Assam PCC * Bihar PCC * Chhattisgarh PCC * Dadra and Nagar Haveli PCC * Daman and Diu PCC * Delhi PCC * Goa PCC * Gujarat PCC * Haryana PCC * Himachal Pradesh PCC * Jammu & Kashmir PCC * Jharkhand PCC *

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* Kerala PCC * Lakshadweep PCC * Madhya Pradesh PCC * Maharashtra PCC * Manipur PCC * Meghalaya PCC * Mizoram PCC * Nagaland PCC * Orissa PCC * Pondicherry PCC * Punjab PCC * Rajasthan PCC * Sikkim PCC * Tamil Nadu PCC * Telangana PCC * Tripura PCC * Uttarakhand PCC * Uttar Pradesh PCC * West Bengal PCC

Footnotes

References

External links

Official All India Congress Committee website
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