All India N.R. Congress (abbr. AINRC) is a regional

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formed by the Chief Minister of Puducherry,

N. Rangaswamy Natesan Krishnasamy Rangasamy (born 4 August 1950) is an Indian politician who is the Chief Minister of the Union Territory of Puducherry. He previously served as last Chief Minister of Pondicherry from 2001 to 2006 and first Chief Minister ...

in the

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n union territory of

Puducherry Puducherry or Pondicherry may refer to: * Puducherry (union territory), a union territory of India ** Pondicherry, capital of the union territory of Puducherry ** Puducherry district, a district of the union territory of Puducherry ** Puducherry t ...

. He announced the party formation on 7 February 2011 in the party's head office in

Pondicherry Pondicherry (), now known as Puducherry ( French: Pondichéry ʊdʊˈtʃɛɹi(listen), on-dicherry, is the capital and the most populous city of the Union Territory of Puducherry in India. The city is in the Puducherry district on the sout ...

as a breakaway from the

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. Currently it is part of the

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led by the

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currently the ruling party of India. The official website states expansion of "N.R." in the party's name as ''Namathu Rajiyam'' (meaning ''our kingdom''). These letters are also the initials of the party founder N. Rangasamy. The party's official motto is ''Simplicity, Fairness and Transparency''.

2011 Assembly elections

The party was formed on 7 February 2011 as a breakaway from the

. The party won 15 seats in the

2011 Puducherry Legislative Assembly election A legislative assembly election was held in the Indian union territory of Puducherry 13 April 2011 to elect members from thirty constituencies in the non-contiguous territory. This election was meant to constitute the Thirteenth Assembly of P ...

and formed the government. On 18 May 2015, it was announced that Congress MLA Malladi Krishna Rao is likely to quit the party and formalise his association with the AINRC taking the strength of the serving party to 15.

2014 Lok Sabha election

Chief Minister N Rangaswamy announced that R. Radhakrishnan, former Speaker of Puducherry Assembly, would be the AINRC candidate for the Puducherry constituency for

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. Radhakrishnan won the lone

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from Puducherry.

2016 Assembly elections

AINRC won 8 seats in the

2016 Puducherry Legislative Assembly election The legislative assembly election in the Indian union territory of Puducherry was held on 16 May 2016 to elect members of the 30 constituencies in the non-contiguous territory to constitute Fourteenth Puducherry Legislative Assembly. Backgroun ...

while

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has emerged as the single largest party with 15 seats. Therefore, Congress, along with

Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam The Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (; DMK) is a political party based in the state of Tamil Nadu where it is currently the ruling party having a comfortable majority without coalition support and the union territory of Puducherry where it is curre ...

which won 2 seats, forms government.

2021 Assembly elections

AINRC along with BJP won a clear majority of seats in the

2021 Puducherry Legislative Assembly election The fifteenth legislative assembly election was held on 6 April 2021 to elect members from 30 constituencies of the 15th Puducherry Assembly in the union territory of Puducherry in India. The National democratic alliance has won a simple majo ...

which paved way for the

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to form a government in the Union Territory for the first time.

References

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