Uttar Pradesh Congress Committee

Uttar Pradesh Congress Committee (UPCC) is the Pradesh Congress Committee (state wing) of the Indian National Congress (INC) serving in the state of Uttar Pradesh.^[2] It is responsible for organizing and coordinating the party's activities and campaigns within the state, as well as selecting candidates for local, state, and national elections.

Uttar Pradesh Congress Committee
President	Ajay Rai[1]
Chairman	Aradhana Misra
Headquarters	Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh
Youth wing	Uttar Pradesh Youth Congress
Women's wing	Uttar Pradesh Mahila Congress Committee
Ideology	Left-wing populism Social liberalism Democratic socialism Secularism Social Democracy
ECI Status	A State Unit of Indian National Congress
Alliance	Indian National Developmental Inclusive Alliance
Seats in Lok Sabha	6 / 80
Seats in Rajya Sabha	0 / 31
Seats in Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly	2 / 403
Seats in Uttar Pradesh Legislative Council	0 / 100
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The committee has a long history of political influence in the state, having played a significant role in the state's politics during the pre-independence era and after. From 1928 to 1975 the Party saw the prominent role and contribution of leaders like GB Pant, Rafi Ahmad Kidwai, CB Gupta, Nirmal Chandra Chaturvedi, Sampurnanand and many others. However, it has faced challenges in recent years, including a decline in electoral support and internal conflicts. Congress Working Committee Appointed Priyanka Gandhi as General Secretary of UP (East), later she has taken charge of General Secretary (AICC). CLP Leader of the Uttar Pradesh Congress Committee is Aradhana Misra 3rd Term MLA from Rampur Khas, Pratapgarh.^[3][4]

Structure and Composition

S.No.	Name	Designation[5]	District Allotted
1	Ajay Rai, Former Minister,M.L.A. 5 Terms (1996-2017) Government Of Uttar Pradesh	President, Uttar Pradesh Congress Committee
2	Nasimuddin Siddiqui, Ex Cabinet Minister	Provincial President, Western Zone	Saharanpur, Muzaffarnagar, Shamli, Baghpat, Bulandshahr, Ghaziabad, Meerut, Gautambudh Nagar, Bijnor, Hapur, Amroha, Moradabad, Rampur and Sambhal
3	Ajay Rai, Ex MLA	Provincial President, Prayagraj Zone	Varanasi, Ghazipur, Chandauli, Jaunpur, Bhadohi, Mirzapur, Sonbhadra, Kaushambi, Allahabad, Pratapgarh, Amethi and Sultanpur
4	Nakul Dubey, Ex MLA	Provincial President, Awadh Zone	Lucknow, Unnao, Bahraich, Barabanki, Balrampur, Shravasti, Ghonda, Sitapur, Lakhimpur-Khiri, Hardoi and Rae Barely
5	Virendra Chaudhary, MLA	Provincial President, Purvanchal Zone	Siddharth Nagar, Maharajganj, Gorakhpur, Basti, Kushinagar, Azamgarh, Mau, Deoria, Ballia, Sant Kabir Nagar, Faizabad and Ambedkar Nagar
6	Yogesh Dikshit	Provincial President, Brij Zone	Mathura, Agra, Firozabad, Etah, Mainpuri, Kasganj, Aligarh, Hathras, Badaun, Bareilly, Shahjahanpur, Pilibhit and Farrukhabad
7	Anil Yadav	Provincial President, Bundelkhand and Kanpur Zone	Kanpur, Kanpur Dehat, Kannauj, Auraiya, Jalaun, Mahoba, Jhansi, Lalitpur, Banda, Chitrakoot, Fatehpur, Hamirpur and Etawah
8	Dr Jiya Ram Verma	Medical Cell President, Uttar Pradesh Congress Committee
9	Priyanka Gupta	Spokesperson	Spokespersons of Indian National Congress[6]

List of presidents

See also: List of state presidents of the Indian National Congress and List of presidents of the Indian National Congress

S.No.	President	Portrait	Term		Tenure	Ref.
1.	N. D. Tiwari		1990	1994
2.	Jitendra Prasad		1994	1998	3 years
3.	Salman Khurshid		1998	4 December 2000	2 years
4.	Sriprakash Jaiswal		4 December 2000	3 July 2002	1 year, 211 days
5.	Arun Kumar Singh Munna		3 July 2002	30 May 2003	331 days
6.	Jagdambika Pal		30 May 2003	7 November 2004	1 year, 161 days
(3).	Salman Khurshid		7 November 2004	12 September 2007	2 years, 309 days
7.	Rita Bahuguna Joshi		12 September 2007	29 August 2012	4 years, 352 days
8.	Nirmal Khatri		29 August 2012	12 July 2016	3 years, 318 days
9.	Raj Babbar		12 July 2016	7 October 2019	3 years, 87 days
10.	Ajay Kumar Lallu		7 October 2019	16 March 2022	2 years, 160 days
11.	Brijlal Khabri		1 October 2022	17 August 2023	320 days
12.	Ajay Rai		17 August 2023	Incumbent	2 years, 20 days

Advisory Council to General Secretary

S.No.	Name	Design
1.	Ajay Rai	Member
2.	Anugrah Narayan Singh	Member
3.	Mohsina Kidwai	Member
4.	Nasimuddin Siddiqui	Member
5.	Nirmal Khatri	Member
6.	Pradeep Mathur	Member
7.	Pramod Tiwari	Member
8.	Praveen Singh Aron	Member
9.	P. L. Punia	Member
10.	Rajesh Mishra	Member
11.	Raashid Alvi	Member
12.	Salman Khurshid	Member
13.	Sanjay Kapoor	Member
14.	Vivek Bansal	Member
15.	Zafar Ali Naqvi	Member
16.	Akash Singh Chandel	Member

Group on Strategy and Planning

S.No.	Name	Design
1.	Brijlal Khabri	Member
2.	Prashant Shukla	Member
3.	Rajiv Shukla	Member
4.	Pradeep Jain Aditya	Member

MPs and MLAs from Uttar Pradesh

S.No.	Name	Constituency
Member of Parliament
1	Rahul Gandhi	Raebareli
2	Imran Masood	Saharanpur
3	Rakesh Rathore	Sitapur
4	Tanuj Punia	Barabanki
5	Kishori Lal Sharma	Amethi
6	Ujjwal Raman Singh	Allahabad
Member of Legislative Assembly
1	Aradhana Mishra	Rampur Khas
2	Virendra Chaudhary	Pharenda

Electoral performance

Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly

Election	Seats up for election	Seats contested	Seats won	Change	Votes polled	Vote share	Swing	Resulting Government
1937	228	—	133 / 228	—	—	—	—	Majority Government
1946	228	—	153 / 228	20	—	—	—	Supermajority Government
1952	430	429	388 / 430	235	8,032,475	47.93 / 100	—	Supermajority Government
1957	430	430	286 / 430	102	9,298,382	42.42 / 100	5.51%	Majority Government
1962	430	429	249 / 430	37	6,471,669	36.33 / 100	6.09%	Majority Government
1967	425	425	199 / 425	50	6,912,104	32.20 / 100	4.13%	Minority Government (till April 1967) Opposition (till 1968)
1969	425	424	211 / 425	12	7,893,152	33.69 / 100	1.49%	Minority Government (1969-1970; 1971-1973; 1973-1974) Opposition (1970; 1970-1971)
1974	424	403	215 / 424	4	8,868,229	32.29 / 100	1.40%	Majority Government
1977	425	395	47 / 425	168	7,592,107	31.94 / 100	0.35%	Opposition
1980	425	424	309 / 425	262	9,720,767	37.65 / 100	5.71%	Supermajority Government
1985	425	425	269 / 425	40	11,544,698	39.25 / 100	1.60%	Majority Government
1989	425	410	94 / 425	175	10,866,428	27.90 / 100	11.35%	Opposition
1991	419	413	46 / 419	48	6,480,753	17.32 / 100	10.58%	Opposition
1993	422	421	28 / 422	20	7,533,272	15.08 / 100	2.24%	Opposition
1996	424	126	33 / 424	11	4,626,663	8.35 / 100	6.73%	Opposition
2002	403	402	25 / 403	8	4,810,231	8.96 / 100	0.61%	Opposition
2007	403	393	22 / 403	3	4,489,234	8.61 / 100	0.35%	Opposition
2012	403	355	28 / 403	6	8,832,895	11.65 / 100	3.04%	Opposition
2017	403	114	7 / 403	21	5,416,540	6.25 / 100	5.40%	Opposition
2022	403	403	2 / 403	5	2,416,540	3.25 / 100	2.40%	Opposition

Indian General Election in Uttar Pradesh

Election	Seats up for election	Seats contested	Seats won	Change	Votes polled	Vote share	Swing	Resulting Government (in Centre)	National Leader
1951-1952	86	86	81 / 86	—	9,047,392	52.99 / 100	—	Supermajority Government	Jawaharlal Nehru
1957	86	86	70 / 86	11	10,599,639	46.29 / 100	6.70%	Supermajority Government	Jawaharlal Nehru
1962	86	86	62 / 86	8	6,842,472	38.20 / 100	8.09%	Supermajority Government	Jawaharlal Nehru
1967	85	85	47 / 85	15	7,285,130	33.44 / 100	4.76%	Majority Government	Indira Gandhi
1971	85	78	73 / 85	26	9,981,309	48.58 / 100	15.14%	Supermajority Government	Indira Gandhi
1977	85	85	0 / 85	73	7,170,182	24.99 / 100	23.59%	Opposition	Indira Gandhi (defeated)
1980	85	85	51 / 85	51	10,171,194	35.90 / 100	10.91%	Supermajority Government	Indira Gandhi
1984	85	85	83 / 85	32	17,391,831	51.03 / 100	15.13%	Supermajority Government	Rajiv Gandhi
1989	85	84	15 / 85	68	12,393,934	31.77 / 100	19.26%	Opposition (till 1990) External Support for SJP(R) Govt (till 1991)	Rajiv Gandhi
1991	85	80	5 / 85	10	6,755,015	18.02 / 100	13.75%	Minority Government	P. V. Narasimha Rao
1996	85	85	5 / 85		3,746,505	8.14 / 100	9.88%	Opposition (till Jun 1996) External Support for UF Govt (till 1998)	P. V. Narasimha Rao
1998	85	76	0 / 85	5	3,361,053	6.02 / 100	2.13%	Opposition	Sitaram Kesri (defeated)
1999	85	76	10 / 85	10	8,001,685	14.72 / 100	8.70%	Opposition	Sonia Gandhi
2004	80	73	9 / 80	1	6,412,293	12.04 / 100	2.68%	Minority Government	Sonia Gandhi
2009	80	80	21 / 80	12	10,113,521	18.25 / 100	6.21%	Minority Government	Sonia Gandhi
2014	80	80	2 / 80	19	6,061,267	7.53 / 100	10.72%	Opposition	Sonia Gandhi
2019	80	80	1 / 80	1	5,457,352	6.36 / 100	1.17%	Opposition	Rahul Gandhi
2024	80	17	6 / 80	5	8,294,318	9.46 / 100	3.10%	Opposition	Mallikarjun Kharge

List of chief ministers

Premier of United Provinces (1937–50)

No.	Portrait	Name	Constituency	Term of office			Assembly
				Start	End	Tenure
1		Govind Ballabh Pant	NA	17 July 1937	2 November 1939	2 years, 108 days	1st (1937 Elections)
(1)		Govind Ballabh Pant	NA	1 April 1946	25 January 1950	3 years, 299 days	2nd (1946 Elections)

Chief Ministers of Uttar Pradesh

No.	Portrait	Name	Constituency	Term of office			Assembly
				Start	End	Tenure
1		Govind Ballabh Pant	Bareilly Municipality	26 January 1950	20 May 1952	4 years, 335 days	Provincial (1946 Elections) 1st (1951 election)
				20 May 1952	27 December 1954
2		Sampurnanand	Varanasi South	28 December 1954	9 April 1957	5 years, 344 days	2nd (1957 election)
				10 April 1957	6 December 1960
3		Chandra Bhanu Gupta	Ranikhet South	7 December 1960	14 March 1962	2 years, 298 days	3rd (1962 election)
				14 March 1962	1 October 1963
4		Sucheta Kripalani	Menhdawal	2 October 1963	13 March 1967	3 years, 162 days
(3)		Chandra Bhanu Gupta	Ranikhet	14 March 1967	2 April 1967	19 days	4th (1967 election)
				26 February 1969	17 February 1970	356 days
6		Kamalapati Tripathi	Chandauli	4 April 1971	12 June 1973	2 years, 69 days	5th (1969 election)
7		Hemwati Nandan Bahuguna	Bara	8 November 1973	4 March 1974	2 years, 21 days	6th (1974 election)
				5 March 1974	29 November 1975
8		N. D. Tiwari	Kashipur	21 January 1976	30 April 1977	1 year, 99 days
9		Vishwanath Pratap Singh	Tindwari	9 June 1980	18 July 1982	2 years, 39 days	8th (1980 election)
10		Sripati Mishra	Isauli	19 July 1982	2 August 1984	2 years, 14 days
(8)		N. D. Tiwari	Kashipur	3 August 1984	10 March 1985	1 year, 52 days	9th (1985 election)
				11 March 1985	24 September 1985
12		Vir Bahadur Singh	Paniyara	24 September 1985	24 June 1988	2 years, 274 days
(8)		N. D. Tiwari	Kashipur	25 June 1988	5 December 1989	1 year, 163 days

District & City Congress Committee

Sr. NO.	Division	District/City	President
1.	Saharanpur	Saharanpur DCC	Sandeep Rana
		Saharanpur CCC	Manish Tyagi
		Shamli DCC	Akhlaq Pradhan
		Shamli CCC	Munish Devi
		Muzaffarnagar DCC	Satpal Kataria
		Muzaffarnagar CCC	Ranjan Mittal
2.	Moradabad	Moradabad DCC	Vinod Gumber
		Moradabad CCC	Junaid Quraishi
		Bijnor DCC	Hainrita
		Bijnor CCC	Humayun Baig
		Rampur DCC	Pramila Kumar Sharma
		Rampur CCC	Waqar Ali Khan
		Amroha DCC	Omkar Kataria
		Amroha CCC	Indresh Sharma
		Sambhal DCC	Hazi Mohd. Arif Turki
		Sambhal CCC	Shiv Kishor Gautam
3.	Bareilly	Bareilly DCC	Ashfaq Saklani
		Bareilly CCC	Dinesh Gupta
		Badaun DCC	Ajeet Yadav
		Badaun CCC	Munna Lal Sagar
		Pilibhit DCC	Harpreet Singh Chhaba
		Pilibhit CCC	Srikrishan Gangwar
		Shahjahanpur DCC	Rajneesh Gupta
		Shahjahanpur CCC	Taqweem Hasan Khan
4.	Meerut	Meerut DCC	Gaurav Bhati
		Meerut CCC	Ranjan Sharma
		Baghpat DCC	Luv Kashyap
		Baghpat CCC	Ram Hari Panwar
		Bulandshahr DCC	Ziaur Rahman
		Bulandshahr CCC	Er. Ravi Lodhi
		Gautam Budh Nagar DCC	Deepak Bhati
		Noida CCC	Mukesh Yadav
		Ghaziabad DCC	Satish Sharma
		Ghaziabad CCC	Veer Singh Jatav
		Hapur DCC	Rakesh Tyagi
		Hapur CCC	Irfan Ahmad
5.	Aligarh	Aligarh DCC	Thakur Somveer Singh
		Aligarh CCC	Naved Khan
		Etah DCC	Hazi Ashik Husain
		Etah CCC	Vineet Parashar Valmiki
		Hathras DCC	Vivek Kumar Upadhyay
		Hathras CCC	Yogesh Kumar
		Kasganj DCC	Manoj Pandey
		Kasganj CCC	Rajendra Kashyap
6.	Agra	Agra DCC	Ramnath Sikarwar
		Agra CCC	Amit Diwakar
		Firozabad DCC	Ram Niwas Yadav
		Firozabad CCC	Shafaqat Khan Raju
		Mainpuri DCC	Gopal Kulshresth
		Mainpuri CCC	Dr. Nagendra Singh Yadav
		Mathura DCC	Mukesh Dhangar
		Mathura CCC	Pt. Yateendra Mukkadam
7.	Devipatan	Gonda DCC	Ram Pratap Singh
		Gonda CCC	Shahid Ali Qureshi
		Bahraich DCC	Shivendra Pratap Singh
		Bahraich CCC	Mirza Tariq Beg
		Shrawasti DCC	Vidya Mani Tripathi
		Balrampur DCC	Shiv Lal Kori
8.	Basti	Basti DCC	Vishwanath Chaudhary
		Siddharthnagar DCC	Qazi Suhail Ahmad
		Sant Kabir Nagar DCC	Praveen Chandra Pandey
9.	Gorakhpur	Gorakhpur DCC	Rajesh Kumar Tiwari
		Gorakhpur CCC	Ravi Pratap Nishad
		Deoria DCC	Vijayshekhar Mall
		Deoria CCC	Mirza Khurshid Ahmad
		Kushinagar DCC	Ravindra Radhey Vishwakarma
		Maharajganj DCC	Vijay Singh
10.	Kanpur	Auraiya DCC	Sarita Dohre
		Etawah DCC	Ashutosh Dikshit
		Etawah CCC	Rashid Khan
		Farrukhabad DCC	Shakuntala Devi
		Farrukhabad CCC	Ankur Mishra
		Kanpur Dehat DCC	Ambrish Singh Gaur
		Kanpur Nagar Gramin DCC	Sandeep Shukla
		Kanpur Mahanagar CCC	Pawan Gupta
		Kannauj DCC	Mohd. Shakir Husain Ali
		Kannauj CCC	Pankaj Verma
11.	Lucknow	Lucknow DCC	Rudra Daman Singh
		Lucknow CCC	Dr. Shehzad Amit Tyagi
		Hardoi DCC	Vikram Pandey
		Hardoi CCC	Anupam Dixit
		Lakhimpur Kheri DCC	Prahlad Patel
		Lakhimpur Kheri CCC	Riyaz Ahmad Khan
		Raebareli DCC	Pankaj Tiwari
		Raebareli CCC	Dhiraj Shrivastava
		Sitapur DCC	Dr. Mamta Verma
		Sitapur CCC	Shishir Bajpai
		Unnao DCC	Surendra Kushwaha
		Unnao CCC	Faiz Farooqi
12.	Ayodhya	Ambedkar Nagar DCC	K. K. Yadav
		Amethi DCC	Pradeep Singhal
		Barabanki DCC	Mohd. Mohsin
		Barabanki CCC	Rajendra Prasad Verma
		Ayodhya DCC	Chet Narayan Singh
		Ayodhya CCC	Sunil Krishna Gautam
		Sultanpur DCC	Abhishek Singh Rana
		Sultanpur CCC	Shakeel Ansari
13.	Azamgarh	Azamgarh DCC	Kaushal Kumar
		Azamgarh CCC	Riyazul Hassan
		Ballia DCC	Umashankar Pathak
		Mau DCC	Rajmangal Yadav
		Mau CCC	Salman Jamshed
14.	Jhansi	Jhansi DCC	Deshraj Richhariya
		Jhansi CCC	Manoj Gupta
		Jalaun DCC	Arvind Senger
		Lalitpur DCC	Dr. Daya Ram Rajak
15.	Chitrakoot	Banda DCC	Rajesh Dixit
		Banda CCC	Afsana Shah
		Chitrakoot DCC	Kushal Patel
		Hamirpur DCC	Govind Ahirwar
		Mahoba DCC	Santosh Dhuriya
16.	Prayagraj	Allahabad DCC (Ganga Par)	Ashfaq Ahmad
		Allahabad DCC (Yamuna Par)	Ashok Patel
		Allahabad CCC	Fujal Hashmi
		Fatehpur DCC	Mahesh Dwivedi
		Fatehpur CCC	Mohd. Arif Gudda
		Kaushambi DCC	Gaurav Kumar Pandey
		Pratapgarh DCC	Dr. Neeraj Tripathi
17.	Varanasi	Varanasi DCC	Rajeshwar Singh Patel
		Varanasi CCC	Raghvendra Chaubey
		Chandauli DCC	Arun Dwivedi
		Chandauli CCC	Brijesh Gupta
		Ghazipur DCC	Sunil Ram
		Ghazipur CCC	Sandeep Kumar Vishwakarma
		Jaunpur DCC	Pramod Singh
		Jaunpur CCC	Mohd. Arif
18.	Mirzapur	Mirzapur DCC	Shiv Kumar Patel
		Mirzapur CCC	Rajan Pathak
		Bhadohi DCC	Waseem Ansari
		Sonbhadra DCC	Ramraj Singh Gond
		Sonbhadra CCC	Fareed Ahmad

Central Uttar Pradesh youth congress

Pardes karykarini U.P Central youth Congress

1. Pradesh adhyaksh

Deepak Shivhare

2. Karyakari adhyaksh

Ankit Tiwari

State vice president

3. Sharad Shukla

4. Iqbal Ahmed

5. Mohammed Sharif

6. Nivedita Singh

7. Preeti shrivas

general secretary

Pradyuman Singh Sangathan Prabhari

Abhay Singh

Mukesh avsthi

Ravinder Singh Lodhi

Ganesh Maurya

Nirbhan Yadav

Ripanje Upadhyay

secretary

Chaand Zibrile

Saurabh Gupta

Vaibhav Shukla

Khwaja Shariq

Parshuram Pasi hasmukh

Amar Singh Verma

Abhishek chaurasiya

Himanshu Dubey

district President

Lucknow city

Lucknow dehat

Kanpur Shahar

Kanpur jila

Kanpur dehat Akbarpur (shesh Narayan Gupta)

Unnao

Raebareli (Mohit Maurya)

Amethi (Shubham Singh )

Sultanpur

Pratapgarh

Faizabad Ayodhya

Lakhimpur khiri

Sitapur (Narendra Verma)

Barabanki

Ambedkar Nagar

Bahraich ( Vipul Mishra)

Gonda

Shrivasti

Balrampur

Jhansi

Mahoba

Auraiya

Urai

Jalaun

Etawah

Lalitpur

Kaushambi

Kannoj

Hardoi

farookhabad

See also

• Indian National Congress
• Congress Working Committee
• All India Congress Committee
• Pradesh Congress Committee
• Madhya Pradesh Youth Congress