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, or simply the Congress, is a political parties in India, political party in India with deep roots in most regions of India. Founded on 28 December 1885, it was the first mo ...

. It is composed of members elected from state-level

Pradesh Congress Committee A Pradesh Congress Committee (PCC) is the state-level unit of the Indian National Congress. It is responsible for the organization and management of the party's activities in a particular state of India. The PCC is made up of a president and s ...

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 is composed of senior party leaders and is r ...

and the

Congress President The national 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 ...

, 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. AICC is responsible for decision-making and policy formulation for the party at the national level. It also sets the party's agenda and strategies for national and state-level elections.

History

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 Jantar Mantar, Delhi and subsequently to 24 Akbar Road, right behind 10 Janpath, 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 Teen Murti House, 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

Joint Treasurers

General secretaries

In-Charges

Secretaries with assigned work

Joint Secretaries

Departments and Cells

Communication Department

Rajiv Gandhi Panchayati Raj Sangathan

Senior Spokespersons

Spokespersons

Presidents

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 * Karnataka PCC * Kerala PCC * Lakshadweep PCC * Madhya Pradesh PCC * Maharashtra PCC * Manipur PCC * Meghalaya PCC * Mizoram PCC * Nagaland PCC * Odisha PCC * Puducherry PCC *

Punjab PCC Punjab Pradesh Congress Committee (or Punjab PCC), formerly known as the Punjab Provincial Congress Committee in British Raj, colonial India, is the affiliate of the Indian National Congress in the state of Punjab, India, Punjab. It is responsi ...

* Rajasthan PCC * Sikkim PCC * Tamil Nadu CC * 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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