IANS- UPA Chairperson and Congress Parliamentary Party leader Sonia Gandhi on Tuesday condoled the death of Jnanpith winner and multilingual scholar-actor Girish Karnad and said he was a man of the utmost integrity who fought for the freedom of expression. Describing Karnad as a towering figure in India’s cultural, artistic and political world, the Congress […]
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Congress releases election manifesto for 2024 Lok Sabha polls
The Congress party released its manifesto for the 2024 Lok Sabha elections at the All India Congress Committee (AICC) headquarters in Delhi on Friday. Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge, Congress Parliamentary Chairperson Sonia Gandhi, former Congress president Rahul Gandhi and other leaders were seen unveiling the party manifesto titled Nyay Patra.
Congress on the offensive against BJP after Income Tax Dept freezes bank accounts
The Congress party on Thursday fielded its big guns Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge and former Presidents Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi in a news conference as they trained their guns on the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party over the “freezing” of the party’s bank accounts. Addressing a press conference, the Congress President said that it was a “dangerous game” and demanded a “level playing field.”
Congress Party meeting on March 11 to discuss candidates for Lok Sabha polls
The Indian National Congress party’s second Election Committee meeting will be held on March 11 in New Delhi to discuss the candidates for the upcoming Lok Sabha polls. On Thursday, Congress Parliamentary Party Chairperson Sonia Gandhi and Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge arrived at the party headquarters for a Central Election Committee meeting to discuss candidates for the Lok Sabha polls.
Delhi records 57.70% voter turnout as polling for assembly elections ends
Voting for the Delhi Assembly elections concluded on Wednesday at 6 pm across all 11 districts of the National Capital Territory. The Election Commission of India (ECI) confirmed that voters who were in line by the closing time were allowed to cast their ballots.
The results of the high-stakes election, a three-way contest between the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), and Congress, will be announced on February 8, when the vote counting takes place.
Hung government might not sustain a full term, says Sam Pitroda as Congress-led INDIA Bloc curtails Modi’s BJP
The seven-phase-long general election of the world’s largest democracy started on April 19 and concluded on June 1, with the Bharatiya Janata Party-led NDA winning 293 seats and INDIA Bloc triumphing in an unexpected 232 constituencies. However, sending shockwaves around the political spectrum in both India and overseas was the BJP’s underwhelming performance.
Indian Overseas Congress members helping party build grassroots support
The Indian Overseas Congress has traveled to India to support Congress in the general elections. The mood seems upbeat among the overseas volunteers and the IOC president is confident that the Indian National Congress, as well as its multi-party alliance – the Indian National Developmental Inclusive Alliance (I.N.D.I.A.), will win the general elections with a clear majority.
Indian Overseas Congress members in India to help party build grassroots support
The Indian Overseas Congress has traveled to India to support Congress in the general elections. The mood seems upbeat among the overseas volunteers and the IOC president is confident that the Indian National Congress, as well as its multi-party alliance – the Indian National Developmental Inclusive Alliance (I.N.D.I.A.), will win the general elections with a clear margin.
Congress Party rejection of Ram Temple consecration reflects its dilemma over Hindu vote
By Mayank Chhaya The decision of the Congress party, the principal opposition in India to Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s BJP, not to have its leaders attend the grand inauguration of the Ram Temple at Ayodhya is a calculated political gamble couched as a stand taken out of ideological convictions. The party’s statement calling the much-heralded […]
Major rejig in Cong ahead of 2024 LS polls; Priyanka removed as party’s UP in-charge
In a major rejig ahead of the 2024 Lok Sabha elections, the Congress on Saturday removed Priyanka Gandhi Vadra as the party in charge in Uttar Pradesh as it announced key organizational changes just two days after the Congress Working Committee (CWC) meeting.
The ‘famous five’ that turned the tide for Congress in Karnataka
With the Congress all set to return to power with a clear mandate in Karnataka, the grand old party seems to be reaping the benefits of its pin-pointed campaign and the five promises it made to the people of the southern state, party leaders said on Saturday.
India’s Congress Party Still likes the Old Guard
Mayank Chhaya- On July 14, 1942, barely a week before India’s main opposition party, the Indian National Congress’s new president Mallikarjun Kharge was born, its main decision-making body authorized Mohandas Gandhi to embark on a nationwide mass movement. That movement was famously and succinctly christened ‘Bharat Chhodo Andolan’ or ‘Quit India Movement’ to dislodge the […]
Congress Party to vote for new president today, Tharoor and Kharge in fray
At least 9,200 Congress Party delegates are all set to elect their ideal candidate among the two parliamentarians- Shashi Tharoor and Mallikarjun Kharge- today for the Congress Party top post.
India’s Congress Party calls meeting of MPs after central agency seals affiliate publication’s office
The Indian National Congress (INC), better known as the Congress Party, called a meeting of all its members of parliament (MPs) on Thursday to chart its response plan after the Enforcement Directorate (ED) sealed the Herald House in New Delhi, the country’s capital.
From domestic terrorism, Khalistani US groups have evolved to political manipulation
In the mid-1980s Khalistanis brazenly set up a terrorist training camp in the US and cooked up an elaborate plot to assassinate Rajiv Gandhi and Bhajan Lal, who was then the Haryana chief minister, when they visited the country.
Arvind Kejriwal emerges as prospective national opposition leader to Narendra Modi
Mayank Chhaya- With his Aam Admi Party (AAP) pulling off a thumping victory in Punjab, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal has emerged as perhaps the most driven claimant to be the national opposition leader two years before India’s parliamentary elections. Although West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, the founder of the Trinamul Congress (TMC), […]
An adrift Congress Party in India is a serious problem to democracy
Mayank Chhaya- In the immediate aftermath of former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi’s macabre assassination on May 21, 1991, as his Indian National Congress Party scrambled to anoint a new leader, I had asked a top party leader why he would not stake a claim. His response was both candid and instructive. He tapped on his […]
Eye on Polls: Five women whose political innings will be tested on tricky UP pitch
The dawn of 2022 in Uttar Pradesh, apart from witnessing a fiercely fought battle in the Assembly elections, will also decide the political fate of five women politicians.
The talk of an Opposition in India
In her article ‘ We need an Opposition ‘ published in Indian Express, Tavleen Singh writes, ” The whole sad truth is that the Congress Party is more relevant today than it has been for a long while .”
The story of Dr Khalil Chishty
Dr Khalil Chishty was an eminent Pakistani virologist who had obtained a Ph.D from Edinburgh University, and later became Professor of Virology in Karachi Medical College. He died recently in his early 90s, and this has motivated me to write this story.
Modi was autocratic, wrote Pranab Mukherjee in memoir
Manmohan Singh was preoccupied with saving his coalition during his second stint while Narendra Modi was autocratic in his first term as prime minister, former Indian President the late Pranab Mukherjee wrote in his memoirs.
Modi opens strategic horseshoe-shaped Atal Tunnel in Himalayas
VISHAL GULATI(IANS)- After a decade of sheer hard work by the Border Roads Organisation (BRO), Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday inaugurated the strategic Atal Tunnel, one of the world’s most challenging and a marvel of engineering motorways, in the Himalayas that will also bring the infantry combat vehicles closer to the Line of Actual […]
Why Pranab Mukerjee was like Dhrupad Sangeet
Former Indian President Pranab Mukherjee, who died Monday, was a crisis manager throughout his extensive political career from 1969
Use of Zoom app with security weaknesses cause of concern
Anindya Banerjee(IANS)- Defence Minister Rajnath Singh held a video conference with Chief of Defence Staff General Bipin Rawat and the chiefs of army, navy and air force on April 1. “The armed forces and the MoD are fully prepared to face any situation,” Singh tweeted. Only issue was that Singh was using an app that […]
Delhi riot death toll rises to 42
indica News Bureau- On February 28, a five member delegation of Congress, set up by interim President Sonia Gandhi, to file a report on Delhi violence, visited the Guru Teg Bahadur hospital and interacted with the victims of the riots and their families at the GBT hospital in India. The clashes between the pro […]