The Indian National Congress (Urs) was a breakaway faction of the Congress (I) led by D. Devraj Urs. It broke away from the parent party in 1978 following Indira Gandhi

Indira Gandhi

Indira Priyadarshini Gandhara was an Indian politician who served as the third Prime Minister of India for three consecutive terms and a fourth term . She was assassinated by Sikh extremists...

's drubbing in the 1977 General Elections. Urs took with him many legislators from Karnataka

Karnataka

Karnataka , the land of the Kannadigas, is a state in South West India. It was created on 1 November 1956, with the passing of the States Reorganisation Act and this day is annually celebrated as Karnataka Rajyotsava...

, Kerala

Kerala

or Keralam is an Indian state located on the Malabar coast of south-west India. It was created on 1 November 1956 by the States Reorganisation Act by combining various Malayalam speaking regions....

, Maharashtra

Maharashtra

Maharashtra is a state located in India. It is the second most populous after Uttar Pradesh and third largest state by area in India...

 and Goa

Goa

Goa , a former Portuguese colony, is India's smallest state by area and the fourth smallest by population. Located in South West India in the region known as the Konkan, it is bounded by the state of Maharashtra to the north, and by Karnataka to the east and south, while the Arabian Sea forms its...

 including future Union Ministers and Chief Minister

Chief Minister

A Chief Minister is the elected head of government of a sub-national state, provinces of Sri Lanka, Pakistan, notably a state of India, a territory of Australia or a British Overseas Territory that has attained self-government...

s, Yashwantrao Chavan

Yashwantrao Chavan

Yashwantrao Balwantrao Chavan was the first Chief Minister of Maharashtra after the division of Bombay State and the fifth Deputy Prime Minister of India. He was a strong Congress leader, Cooperative leader, social activist and writer. He was popularly known as Leader of Common People...

, Kasu Brahmananda Reddy

Kasu Brahmananda Reddy

Kasu Brahmananda Reddy at Hyderabad, was the Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh, India from 29 February 1964 to 30 September 1971. On 3 June 1977 he was elected president of the Indian National Congress.-Early life:...

, A.K. Antony, Sharad Pawar

Sharad Pawar

Sharadchandra Govindrao Pawar , popularly known as SAHEB , is the president of the Nationalist Congress Party which he founded in 1999, after separating from the Indian National Congress...

, Priyaranjan Das Munshi and K.P. Unnikrishnan.

Subsequently Devaraj Urs joined Janata Party

Janata Party

The Janata Party was an amalgam of Indian political parties opposed to the state of emergency imposed by the government of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi and her Indian National Congress...

; Yashwantrao Chavan, Brahmananda Reddy, and Chidambaram Subramaniam joined Congress (Indira); and A.K. Antony split from Congress (Urs) to form Congress (A)

Congress (A)

Congress was a political party founded by A. K. Antony when he split from the Indian National Congress a splinter group of the Indian National Congress. The party was primarily active in Kerala. The party merged with the Congress in 1982....

 in Kerala

Kerala

or Keralam is an Indian state located on the Malabar coast of south-west India. It was created on 1 November 1956 by the States Reorganisation Act by combining various Malayalam speaking regions....

. When Sharad Pawar took over the party presidency in October 1981, the name of the party was changed to Indian Congress (Socialist)

Indian Congress (Socialist)

Indian Congress was a political party in India between 1978 and 1986. The party was formed through a split in the Indian National Congress. Initially the party was known as the Indian National Congress and was led by D. Devraj Urs. It broke away from the parent party in 1978 following Indira...

Leaders

• Devaraj Urs
• Yashwantrao Chavan
  Yashwantrao Chavan
  Yashwantrao Balwantrao Chavan was the first Chief Minister of Maharashtra after the division of Bombay State and the fifth Deputy Prime Minister of India. He was a strong Congress leader, Cooperative leader, social activist and writer. He was popularly known as Leader of Common People...
  
  
• Kasu Brahmananda Reddy
  Kasu Brahmananda Reddy
  Kasu Brahmananda Reddy at Hyderabad, was the Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh, India from 29 February 1964 to 30 September 1971. On 3 June 1977 he was elected president of the Indian National Congress.-Early life:...
  
  
• Swaran Singh
• Chidambaram Subramaniam
  Chidambaram Subramaniam
  Chidambaram Subramaniam , was an Indian statesman...
  
  
• A.K. Antony
• Sharad Pawar
  Sharad Pawar
  Sharadchandra Govindrao Pawar , popularly known as SAHEB , is the president of the Nationalist Congress Party which he founded in 1999, after separating from the Indian National Congress...
  
  
• Dev Kant Baruah
  Dev Kant Baruah
  Debakanta Barua was an Indian politician from Assam, who served as the President of the Indian National Congress during the Indian Emergency and was one of the most loyal supporters of then-Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi...
  
  
• Priyaranjan Das Munshi
• Vayalar Ravi
  Vayalar Ravi
  Vayalar Ravi is a prominent Indian politician, currently the Union Cabinet Minister of Overseas Indian Affairs and Minister of Civil Aviation. He is a member of the Rajya Sabha.-Political Life:...
  
  
• Ambika Soni
  Ambika Soni
  Ambika Soni is an Indian politician belonging to Indian National Congress. She currently serves in the Union Cabinet as the minister in charge of Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, after serving in Ministry of Tourism and Ministry of Culture from 2006–2009.She is a member of the Indian...
  
  
• Sarat Chandra Sinha
  Sarat Chandra Sinha
  Sarat Chandra Sinha was a Chief Minister of Assam and a leader of Indian National Congress, Indian National Congress and Nationalist Congress Party. Known for his value-based politics, Sinha belonged to a rare breed of politicians who sacrificed his life for the welfare of the downtrodden people...
  
  
• Oommen Chandy
  Oommen Chandy
  Oommen Chandy is an Indian politician and the current Chief Minister of Kerala. He has held the Chief Minister of Kerala position earlier from 2004 to 2006, and was the Leader of the Opposition in the Kerala Legislative Assembly from 2006 to 2011.-Early life:Oommen Chandy or 'Kunjoonju' was born...
  
  
• K.P. Unnikrishnan
• Kadannappally Ramachandran
• P.C. Chacko