Nationalist Congress Party

The Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) is an Indian political party.

NCP Policies

• Establishment of a national agricultural policy
• Establishment of a national policy to empower women
• Review and revision to the national health policy to add a separate sub-component on women's health
• Integrated implementation of a national nutrition policy to merge and coordinate various services provided by different government departments and agencies
• Citizenship law reform to stipulate that high offices in government be confined to natural-born Indian citizens (see Sonia Gandhi)
• Reserving for women one-third of the seats in parliament and in state legislatures
• Enactment of a competition law to protect against corrupt practices
• Enactment of a bio-diversity law to protect bio-diversity and intellectual property
• Enactment of a law establishing an independent telecasting authority

Proposed Governmental Commissions

• An Exclusive Scheduled Tribes Commission with constitutional status
• An Exclusive Minorities Commission with constitutional status
• A Commission on Corporate Governance to establish self-regulating Fair Practices Code
• Railways Safety Commission