ABOUT UMMA PARTY (UP)
The Sudanese Patriots who established Umma
Party in Feb 1945 as the fist Popular Political Party, aimed
at attaining the country’s independence from the Condominium
Reign. The Umma Party is the Party of Sudanese Independence.
It championed that cause until it became the basis for
Sudanese consensus in 1955. (The
country's Independence was announced in 1st Jan 1956)
Sadig Al Mahdi
Party, April 2003
It bore the brunt of opposition to all the
Dictatorial Regimes, which came to power through coup d’etat. It
drew the largest electoral votes in all the free General
elections, which took place in the Sudan. It masterminded all the
initiatives to arrive at a Great Compromise between North and
South. It initiated the principle of making citizenship the basis
for Constitutional Rights, the recognition of Religious and
Cultural plurality in the Sudan, and a program to resolve the
issues of Religion and Politics, Religion and State, on a basis
which reconciles National unity and Religious loyalties.
Currently the Umma Party is championing the cause
of a negotiated Just Peace, and Democratic Transformation and so
putting an end to the War and to Totalitarianism.