Tamil Nadu Congress Committee

Since the 1950s, the TNCC has favored liberal positions (the term "liberal" in this sense describes modern liberalism, not classical liberalism) with support for social justice and a mixed economy. TNCC strongly supports Liberal nationalism, a kind of nationalism compatible with values of freedom, tolerance, equality, and individual rights.^[5]

Historically, the party has favoured farmers, labourers, and the working class; it has opposed unregulated business and finance. In recent decades, the party has adopted a centrist economic and socially progressive agenda and has begun to advocate for more social justice, affirmative action, a balanced budget, and a market economy. The economic policy adopted by the modern TNCC is free market policies, though at the same time it is in favour of taking a cautious approach when it comes to liberalising the economy claiming it is to help ensure that the weaker sectors are not affected too hard by the changes that come with liberalisation. In the 1990s, however, it endorsed market reforms, including privatisation and the deregulation of the economy. It also has supported secular policies that encourage equal rights for all citizens, including those from the lower stratas. The party supports the somewhat controversial concept of family planning with birth control.

The Congress strongly endorses a mixed Capital economy in which both the private sector and the state direct the economy, reflecting characteristics of both market economies and planned economies. A leading economic theory advocated by the modern Tamil Nadu Congress party is import substitution industrialisation that advocates replacing foreign imports with domestic production. Party also believes that mixed economies often provide environmental protection, maintenance of employment standards, a standardized welfare system, and maintenance of competition. The Indian National Congress party liberalised the Indian economy, allowing it to speed up development dramatically.

Tamil Nadu Congress Pioneered the first Midday Meal Scheme in India in the Year 1953.^[6] This led to a huge wave of enrollment by students from the predominant rural and semi urban pockets of Tamil Nadu, which helped increase the Literacy rate of the state from 16% in 1947 to 82% in 2011. Today, it has become the largest schoolchild feeding programme in the world, covering 110 million students in 1.2 million schools. This rural health initiative was praised by the American economist Jeffrey Sachs and former American President John F. Kennedy.^[7] During the TNCC tenure, an IIT and was opened in the state.^[8]

The Tamil Nadu Congress party has been instrumental in debating and helping strengthen anti-terror and vigilant laws leading to amendments to the Security Laws of the Tamil Nadu Government Departments. Also, Unique Identification Authority of India was established in February 2009, with the help of the Central Government, an agency responsible for implementing the envisioned Multipurpose National Identity Card with the objective of increasing national security and facilitating e-governance.

Year	Party leader	Votes polled	Seats won	Change in seats	Outcome
Madras Presidency
1937	C. Rajagopalachari		159 / 215	New	Government
1946	Tanguturi Prakasam		163 / 215	4	Government
Madras State
1952	C. Rajagopalachari	6,988,701	152 / 375	New	Government
Madras State (Tamil Nadu)
1957	K. Kamaraj	5,046,576	151 / 205	New	Government
1962		5,848,974	139 / 206	12	Government
1967	M. Bhakthavatsalam	6,293,378	51 / 234	88	Opposition
Tamil Nadu
1971	Chidambaram Subramaniam	5,513,894	15 / 234	36	Opposition (INC+)
1977	G. K. Moopanar	2,994,535	27 / 234	12	Opposition (INC+)
1980		3,941,900	31 / 234	4	Opposition (DMK INC+)
1984	M. Palaniyandi	3,529,708	61 / 234	30	Government (AIADMK INC+)
1989	G. K. Moopanar	4,780,714	26 / 234	35	Opposition (INC+)
1991	Vazhappady K. Ramamurthy	3,743,859	60 / 234	34	Government (AIADMK INC+)
1996	Kumari Anandan	1,523,340	0 / 234	60	Opposition (AIADMK INC+)
2001	E. V. K. S. Elangovan	696,205	30 / 234	30	Government (AIADMK INC+)
2006	M. Krishnasamy	2,765,768	34 / 234	4	Government (DPA)
2011	K. V. Thangkabalu	3,426,432	5 / 234	29	Opposition (DMK INC+)
2016	E. V. K. S. Elangovan	2,774,075	8 / 234	3	Opposition (DMK INC+)
2021	K. S. Alagiri	1,976,527	18 / 234	10	Government (SPA)

• Madras State was completely reorganized into the present state of Tamil Nadu in the year 1956. But the name was changed to Tamil Nadu only in the year 1969

• Congress Working Committee
• All India Congress Committee (AICC)
• Pradesh Congress Committee
• Indian Youth Congress
• All India Mahila Congress
• National Students Union of India

• INC Tamil Nadu website