Congress

In the 2018 Rajasthan Assembly elections, Congress secured 99 seats out of 200, continuing the curse that no party could win the same seat again while BJP could only manage to win 73 seats.

JAIPUR: At a time when there is no consensus in the BJP over its CM candidate in Rajasthan, the women voters in several parts of the desert state are rallying behind the 48-year-old Congress leader who missed the bus for the top job in the state. The Gujjar leader, Sachin Pilot, who’s following in the state […]

THIRUVANTHAPURAM:  Emulating the ‘Jana Sambharkha Yatra” formulated by former Chief Minister and Congress veteran Oommen Chandy, the present Kerala government led by the Communist Party of India (Marxist) is leaving no stone unturned to make the “Nava Kerala Sadas” public outreach programme a massive success.  This development arrives when the Left Democratic Front leadership is […]

NEW DELHI: Having already declared seven guarantees in the run-up to the Rajasthan Assembly elections, the Congress party released its manifesto in the presence of Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot, on Tuesday. Among the ones present were party President Mallikarjun Kharge, state party in-charge Sukhjinder Singh Randhawa, state party President Govind Singh Dotasra, manifesto committee chairman […]

KOLKATA: There has been a sevenfold increase in monetary seizures has been recorded in the five states heading for their assembly elections, according to the Election Commission of India.  A cumulative amount of Rs 1760 crore has reportedly been seized from Mizoram, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Rajasthan and Telangana since the elections were announced.  Earlier, according […]

NEW DELHI: As Australia defeated India decisively in the ICC Men’s Cricket World Cup on Sunday, questions arose regarding the politicisation of the tournament with the Lok Sabha elections being only five months away in 2024. Priyanka Gandhi Vadra of the Congress party, during a rally in Telangana, had highlighted that following the 1983 World […]

HYDERABAD: One factor that could decide the outcome of the Telangana polls is the turnaround in the minority vote preferences which is influenced by the Anti-BJP stance taken by the two main contenders in the state — the Bharat Rashtriya Samiti and the Congress. Issues like the Uniform Civil Code, and the Palestine conflict are […]

JODHPUR: Among the 200 Rajasthan Assembly constituencies, Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot’s bastion of Sardarpura is one of the most important and will be in the spotlight as he faces off against Bharatiya Janata Party’s Dr Mahendra Singh Rathore.  Sardarpura constituency and Gehlot’s name go hand in hand as it was from here that he became […]

Ahead of the Rajasthan assembly elections, the Union Minister for Jal Shakti and Lok Sabha MP, Gajendra Singh Shekhawat, speaks to The New Indian, shedding light on the upcoming elections, discussing his political journey, his commitment to the Bhartiya Janta Party, and the key issues facing the state. Urvashi: As Rajasthan is going for its […]

NEW DELHI: The atmosphere in Madhya Pradesh is charged with the state eagerly awaiting the declaration of election results. The fate of the state will be decided on December 3. The New Indian’s Executive Editor, Rohan Dua, spoke to Civil Aviation Minister Jyotiraditya Scindia, about camaraderie in the Bharatiya Janata Party, and why he left […]