| Year |
Party |
Abbr. |
Leader |
Region |
Status |
|---|
| 1915 | Akhil Bharatiya Hindu Mahasabha |
ABHM | Madan Mohan Malviya | National | active |
| 1923 | Swaraj Party |
SP | Chittaranjan Das, Motilal Nehru | Bengal Presidency | defunct
merged with INC |
| 1939 | All India Forward Bloc[1] |
AIFB | Sardul Singh Caveeshar
Sheel Bhadra Yagee
Subhas Chandra Bose | National | active |
| 1951 | Kisan Mazdoor Praja Party[2] |
KMPP | Jivatram Kripalani | Madras State
Vindhya Pradesh | defunct
merged with Praja Socialist Party |
| 1951 | Hyderabad State Praja Party |
| Tanguturi Prakasam
N. G. Ranga | Hyderabad State | defunct
merged with Kisan Mazdoor Praja Party |
| 1951 | Saurashtra Khedut Sangh |
| Narsinhbhai Dadhaniya
Ratibhai Ukabhai | Saurashtra State | defunct
merged with Swatantra Party |
| 1956 | Indian National Democratic Congress[3] |
| C. Rajagopalachari | Madras State | defunct
merged with Swatantra Party |
| 1959 | Swatantra Party[4] |
| C. Rajagopalachari
N. G. Ranga | Bihar
Rajasthan
Gujarat
Orissa | defunct
merged with Bharatiya Kranti Dal |
| 1964 | Kerala Congress[5] |
| K. M. George | Kerala | active as the original party has various factions, which have split off from it such as Kerala Congress (M), Kerala Congress (Jacob), Kerala Congress (B), Kerala Congress (Democratic), Kerala Congress (Skaria Thomas), Kerala Congress (Thomas), Kerala Congress (Nationalist) |
| 1966 | Orissa Jana Congress |
| Harekrushna Mahatab | Odisha | defunct
merged with Janata Party |
| 1967 | Bangla Congress |
| Ajoy Mukherjee | West Bengal | defunct
merged with INC |
| 1967 | Vishal Haryana Party |
| Birender Singh | Haryana | defunct
merged with INC |
| 1967 | Bharatiya Kranti Dal[6][7] |
| Charan Singh | Uttar Pradesh | defunct
merged with Bharatiya Lok Dal |
| 1968 | Manipur Peoples Party[8] |
| Mohammed Alimuddin | Manipur | active |
| 1969 | Indian National Congress (R) |
| Indira Gandhi | National | defunct
merged with INC |
| 1969 | Indian National Congress (Organisation)[9] |
| K. Kamaraj
| National | defunct
merged with Janata Party |
| 1969 | Utkal Congress |
| Biju Patnaik | Odisha | defunct
merged with Janata Party |
| 1969 | Telangana Praja Samithi |
| Marri Chenna Reddy | Andhra Pradesh | defunct
merged with INC |
| 1971 | Biplobi Bangla Congress |
| Sukumar Roy | West Bengal | active
part of the Left Front (West Bengal) |
| 1977 | Congress for Democracy[10] |
| Jagjivan Ram | National | defunct
merged with Janata party |
| 1978 | Indian National Congress (Indira) |
| Indira Gandhi | National | defunct
merged with INC |
| 1979 | Indian National Congress (Urs) |
| D. Devaraj Urs | Karnataka
Maharashtra
Goa | defunct
become Indian National Congress (Socialist) |
| 1980 | Congress (A) |
| A. K. Antony | Kerala | defunct
merged with INC |
| 1981 | Indian National Congress (Socialist)[11] |
| Sharad Pawar | Karnataka
Maharashtra
Goa | defunct
merged with INC |
| 1981 | Indian National Congress (Jagjivan)[11] |
| Jagjivan Ram | Bihar | defunct |
| 1984 | Indian Congress (Socialist) - Sarat Chandra Sinha[12] |
| Sarat Chandra Sinha | Assam | defunct
Major faction of the party merged with Nationalist Congress Party. However a residual faction still exists in Kerala as a part of Left Front. |
| 1986 | Rashtriya Samajwadi Congress |
| Pranab Mukherjee | West Bengal | defunct
merged with INC |
| 1988 | Thamizhaga Munnetra Munnani[13] |
| Sivaji Ganesan | Tamil Nadu | defunct
merged with Janata Dal |
| 1990 | Haryana Vikas Party |
| Bansi Lal | Haryana | defunct
merged with INC in 2004 |
| 1994 | All India Indira Congress (Tiwari)[14] |
| Narayan Datt Tiwari
Arjun Singh
Natwar Singh
Rangarajan Kumaramangalam | Uttar Pradesh | defunct
merged with INC |
| 1994 | Karnataka Congress Party |
| Bangarappa | Karnataka | defunct
merged with INC |
| 1994 | Tamizhaga Rajiv Congress |
| Vazhapadi Ramamurthy | Tamil Nadu | defunct
merged with INC |
| 1996 | Karnataka Vikas Party |
| Bangarappa | Karnataka | defunct
merged with INC |
| 1996 | Arunachal Congress |
| Gegong Apang | Arunachal Pradesh | defunct
merged with INC |
1996
2014 | Tamil Maanila Congress (Moopanar)[15] |
| G. K. Moopanar 1996-2001
G. K. Vasan (2014–present) | Tamil Nadu | active
merged with INC in 2001
split again from INC in 2014 |
| 1996 | Madhya Pradesh Vikas Congress |
| Madhavrao Scindia | Madhya Pradesh | defunct
merged with INC |
| 1997 | Tamil Nadu Makkal Congress |
| Vazhapadi Ramamurthy | Tamil Nadu | defunct |
| 1997 | Himachal Vikas Congress |
| Sukh Ram | Himachal Pradesh | defunct
merged with INC |
| 1997 |
Manipur State Congress Party[16] |
| Wahengbam Nipamacha Singh | Manipur | defunct
merged with RJD |
| 1998 | All India Trinamool Congress |
TMC, AITC | Mamata Banerjee | West Bengal | active
alliance with INC. |
| 1998 | Goa Rajiv Congress Party |
| Francis de Souza | Goa | defunct
merged with Nationalist Congress Party |
| 1998 | Arunachal Congress (Mithi) |
| Mukut Mithi | Arunachal Pradesh | defunct
merged with INC |
| 1998 | All India Indira Congress (Secular)[17] |
| Shish Ram Ola | Rajasthan | defunct
merged with INC |
| 1998 | Maharashtra Vikas Aghadi[18] |
| Suresh Kalmadi | Maharashtra | defunct
merged with INC |
| 1999 | Bharatiya Jan Congress |
| Jagannath Mishra | Bihar | defunct
merged with Nationalist Congress Party |
| 1999 | Nationalist Congress Party |
| Sharad Pawar
P.A. Sangma
Tariq Anwar | Maharashtra
Meghalaya
Kerala | active
|
| 1999 | Jammu and Kashmir Peoples Democratic Party |
| Mufti Mohammad Sayeed | Jammu and Kashmir | active |
| 2000 | Goa People's Congress |
| Francisco Sardinha | Goa | defunct
merged with INC |
| 2001 | Congress Jananayaka Peravai |
| P. Chidambaram | Tamil Nadu | defunct
formed as TMCJP, merged with inc |
| 2001 | Thondar Congress |
| Kumari Ananthan | Tamil Nadu | defunct
merged with INC |
| 2001 | Pondicherry Makkal Congress |
| P. Kannan | Puducherry | defunct |
| 2002 | Vidarbha Janata Congress |
| Jambuwantrao Dhote | Maharashtra | active |
| 2002 | Indian National Congress (Sheik Hassan) |
| Sheik Hassan | Goa | defunct
merged with Bharatiya Janata Party |
| 2002 | Gujarat Janata Congress |
| Chhabildas Mehta | Gujarat | defunct
merged with NCP |
| 2003 | Congress (Dolo) |
| Kameng Dolo | Arunachal Pradesh | defunct
merged with Bharatiya Janata Party |
| 2003 | Nagaland People's Front |
| Neiphiu Rio | Nagaland | active |
| 2005 | Pondicherry Munnetra Congress |
| P. Kannan | Puducherry | defunct
merged with INC |
| 2005 | Democratic Indira Congress (Karunakaran)[19] |
| K. Karunakaran | Kerala | defunct
merged with Nationalist Congress Party and a large number of workers returned to the INC with K. Karunakaran later his son K. Muraleedharan also returned to INC |
| 2007 | Haryana Janhit Congress (BL) |
| Kuldeep Bishnoi | Haryana | merged with INC |
| 2008 | Pragatisheel Indira Congress (PIC) |
| Somendra Nath Mitra | West Bengal | defunct
merged with All India Trinamool Congress |
| 2011 | Yuvajana Sramika Rythu Congress Party |
| Y. S. Jagan Mohan Reddy | Andhra Pradesh | active |
| 2011 | All India N.R Congress |
| N. Rangaswamy | Puducherry | active |
| 2014 | Jai Samaikyandhra Party |
| Nallari Kiran Kumar Reddy | Andhra Pradesh | defunct
merged with INC |
| 2016 | Chhattisgarh Janata Congress |
| Ajit Jogi | Chhattisgarh | active |
| 2019 | Makkal Munnetra Congress |
| P. Kannan | Puducherry | defunct |
| 2021 | Punjab Lok Congress |
| Captain Amarinder Singh | Punjab | defunct
merged with Bharatiya Janata Party |
| 2022 | Democratic Progressive Azad Party |
| Gulam Nabi Azad | Jammu and Kashmir | active |
