Vidarbha Rajya Nirman Congress
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Vidarbha Rajya Nirman Congress is a
political party A political party is an organization that coordinates candidates to compete in a particular country's elections. It is common for the members of a party to hold similar ideas about politics, and parties may promote specific political ideology ...
in the
India India, officially the Republic of India (Hindi: ), is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by area, the second-most populous country, and the most populous democracy in the world. Bounded by the Indian Ocean on the so ...
n state of
Maharashtra Maharashtra (; , abbr. MH or Maha) is a states and union territories of India, state in the western India, western peninsular region of India occupying a substantial portion of the Deccan Plateau. Maharashtra is the List of states and union te ...
. VRNC works for statehood for the
Vidarbha Vidarbha (Pronunciation: Help:IPA/Marathi, ‹id̪əɾbʱə is a geographical region in the east of the Indian state of Maharashtra and a Proposed states and union territories of India#Maharashtra, proposed state of central India, comprising th ...
region. VRNC was launched by two former
Congress Party 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 ...
union ministers,
Vasant Sathe Vasant Purushottam Sathe (5 March 1925 – 23 September 2011) was an Indian politician of the Indian National Congress party. He was a lawyer by training and became a parliamentarian in 1972 and a cabinet minister during the 1980s. He was a soci ...
and
N. K. P. Salve Narendra Kumar Prasadrao Salve (18 March 1921 – 1 April 2012) was a veteran Indian politician from Indian National Congress, parliamentarian and a cricket administrator. Former Union minister and president of Board of Control for Cricket in ...
, on August 18, 2003 and is also a member of the National Front for New States.Nagpur: Nine political parties unite to demand separate statehood for Vidarbha
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See also

* Indian National Congress breakaway parties


References

Political parties in Maharashtra Defunct political parties in Maharashtra 2003 establishments in Maharashtra Political parties established in 2003 Indian National Congress breakaway groups {{India-party-stub