The Congress of the Ingush People held its first meeting in the Chechen capital of
Grozny on 9 September 1989. The meeting was numbered as the second congress in recognition of the
Congress of the Revolutionary Ingush People, which took place on 4 February 1919 and declared Ingushetia as a separate entity from the
Mountain Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic. The congress established an organising committee for preparations to establish Ingush independence. It additionally published demands to adjust the Ingush border to include
Prigorodny District and eastern parts of the city of
Vladikavkaz (then known as Ordzhonikidze), a proposal that infuriated the leadership and populace of
North Ossetia–Alania, and was one of the contributing factors to the
East Prigorodny conflict. In December 1990, the congress' first leader and leader of the
Nijsxo party,
Issa Kodzoev, was removed from his position and replaced by the moderate . The split was solidified following a 7 January 1990 rally by Nijsxo, which grew into a riot. The Congress held its second meeting, also in Grozny, on 6–7 October 1991. At the congress, it was determined to establish a People's Assembly of Ingushetia (), Seynaroyev resigned from leadership and became part of the Organising Committee, which held leadership roles. The slow pace of efforts to resettle Ingush refugees from the conflict, as well as continued ethnic violence in eastern North Ossetia, led to another outburst of anti-Russian sentiment. On 15 May 1993, the congress declared its intention to establish the Republic of Ingushetia as a "secular, legal, democratic state in union with the Russian Federation". At the 11 September 1993 congress, delegates urged Aushev to begin preparing a referendum on Ingushetia remaining part of Russia. On 22 November 1999 the Congress of the Ingush People was legally subsumed into the
People's Assembly of the Republic of Ingushetia, establishing it as the legislature of the Republic of Ingushetia. == Organising Committee (1992–1999) ==