The ruling Congress Party, the great Indian family

New Delhi, April 13. - Progress and development are the two promises to the electoral victory that aims to repeat the ruling Congress Party, which is controlled by the Nehru-Gandhi dynasty more than 60 years after independence.
The candidate training is the outgoing Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, but in the campaign are also playing a key role the party president, Sonia Gandhi and her son Rahul, who many want to see as a future chief executive.
The smiling "trinity"-Singh-Gandhi Gandhi figure in the electoral posters and posters, which again affect the hopes of the "common man", a strategy that allowed the game to win against forecast the 2004 elections and has been the focus of its mandate.
"The Indian Party Congress, highlights his election manifesto, seeks a new mandate on the basis of its key values: secularism, nationalism, social justice and economic growth for everyone, especially the common man."
Sonia, widow of former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi and Indira's daughter, took over for over ten years the leadership of a party in chaos and brought him back to power, but not close to the overwhelming parliamentary majority of old.
Founded in 1885, Congress is the force that brought together the fight for independence against the British Empire, obtained in 1947 and has ruled the country for five of the six decades since.
Belonged to its ranks figures like Mohandas Gandhi and Jawaharlal Nehru, the man who led the first independent government, built the pillars of the party and urged the political dynasty that continued with his daughter Indira and grandson Rajiv.
He still remembers the ideology of training secularism, democracy, socialism and nonalignment advocated by Nehru, Manmohan Singh but has departed from the last two discreetly, true to form.
Singh, an economist with 76 years reputation for honesty (something remarkable in corrupt India) was the Minister of Finance, in 1991 of economic reforms that dismantled the socialist system of industrial licensing and put the country on the rails of capitalism.
In this last term as prime minister, has taken out a civil nuclear cooperation pact with the United States earned him strong criticism of the communist allies of the Government, to the extent that they withdrew their support.
Singh can claim to have led the country in the legislature with higher economic growth in its history, about 9 percent annually and unpublished projects have boosted aid to the neediest sectors.
Critics complain that health programs, education or support the farmer has been inefficient and Prime Minister Singh is a weak and flat which only follow the guidelines in the shadow of Sonia Gandhi.
Because, after the 2004 elections, Gandhi was the theoretical charge of forming a government, but bowed to pressure from the opposition and sections of his own party reluctant to let a "foreign" (she is Italian by birth) assumed the leadership of Executive .
Gandhi then appointed Singh, who throughout the legislature has had to endure speculation about the true power of his mentor and the possible future in the government of "heir" Rahul, 38.
For now, the latter is limited to campaign to lobby in the more than 100 million young people who will vote for the first time, although only a year ago started a suggestive tour of "discovery" of India as his father did prior to being prime minister.
The training, however, is now in a position very different from that inherited Rajiv: in the last election was the most voted, but barely 145 deputies (out of 545), so he had to negotiate with more than one ten forces to rule.
Although the power of Congress has been a gradual deterioration over the past four decades, corroded by the division, patronage and corruption, its leaders still boast of being the only force with a significant presence across India.