Congress

NEW DELHI: Before the final battle in 2024, the Presidential and Vice-Presidential election was a time when it was expected that the Opposition, especially Congress, would show some challenge to the ruling BJP. But, if the Opposition’s Presidential and Vice-Presidential choices are anything to go by, the Opposition is in no position to offer any […]

NEW DELHI: The Congress slammed Union finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Wednesday on her defence of the goods and service tax (GST) on daily use items saying that it was not a unanimous decision. Congress general secretary and Rajya Sabha member Jairam Ramesh issued a statement highlighting 10 points in reply to Sitharaman’s explanation given […]

NEW DELHI: Congress, along with other opposition parties, staged a protest in Parliament over the issue of inflation and price rise on the third day of the Monsoon Session on Wednesday. Former Congress chief Rahul Gandhi along with several senior leaders of the party like Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury, Ranjeet Ranjan, Mallikarjun Kharge and several others […]

NEW DELHI: Congress, along with other opposition parties, on Tuesday, staged a protest in Parliament over the issue of inflation. Former Congress chief Rahul Gandhi along with several senior leaders of the party like Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury, KC Venugopal, Ranjeet Ranjan and Manickam Tagore staged a protest near the Mahatma Gandhi statue in Parliament. The […]

NEW DELHI: Congress on Monday hit out at the government accusing it of “benefitting” its “friends” by making the blending of imported coal mandatory for domestic power producers. Speaking to media outside Parliament, Congress spokesperson Gourav Vallabh alleged that the BJP government at the centre devised this model to benefit “friends” and this will lead […]

DEHRADUN: One state cabinet minister and two Congress MLAs missed the action as 67 members, out of 70, of the state legislative assembly cast their vote in the Presidential Elections on Monday. Three MLAs who did not vote include state cabinet minister Chandan Ram Das, who had to be admitted to a hospital due to […]

NEW DELHI: Even as polling for the Presidential election is underway, several Congress MLAs on Monday voted for NDA nominee Draupadi Murmu. Congress MLAs in Odisha, Jharkhand and several other states voted for Murmu, instead of opposition candidate Yashwant Sinha. Odisha Congress MLA Mohammad Moquim also voted for Murmu. He later said, “I am a […]

NEW DELHI: Congress party on Saturday dismissed Gujarat Police’s Special Investigation Team’s (SIT) claims that social activist Teesta Setalvad was part of a “larger conspiracy” carried out at the behest of late party leader Ahmed Patel to dismiss the Narendra Modi government in the state after the 2002 riots. In a statement, Congress general secretary […]

NEW DELHI: Congress’ 148-day Bharat Jodo Yatra will begin on October 2 under the leadership of former party chief Rahul Gandhi covering 3,500 km in 12 states and two union territories from Kanyakumari to Kashmir. The announcement was made after all the Presidents of the state units of the party and frontal organizations met here […]

NEW DELHI: Former Madhya Pradesh chief minister Kamal Nath’s son Bakul had dashed to Las Vegas on a private chopper in June 2011 with the help of tainted nephew of the top Congress leader for a vacation, the sensational files from the credit card statement found in the probe into Rs 3,600-crore AgustaWestland VVIP chopper […]