The Indian National Congress has always represented a secular, democratic, just and inclusive India, an India that is empowering the disadvantaged and the discriminated. The Indian National Congress has been a mass movement that brought us freedom from colonial rule. And then it evolved into a mass movement committed to bringing other freedoms - economic, social, individual - to our people. We laid the foundations of a modern nation-state. It has been the binding force that has firmly stitched together the concept of a strong and unified India, confident of its place in the works