Goa People's Congress (GPC) is a splinter-group of the Indian National Congress in Goa. GPC broke away from INC in 2000 under the leadership of Francisco Sardinha. GPC formed a coalition government in the state together with Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), with Sardinha as Chief Minister. That government lasted nine months. After having broken relations to GPC, BJP continued to govern with support form other Congress dissidents. After the fall of the Sardinha cabinet two GPC members of the legislative assembly, led by Dayanand Narvekar, broke away and formed a parallel GPC.
Sardinha's GPC merged with Indian National Congress on April 5, 2001. Narvekar's GPC merged with INC August 27 the same year.
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