Congress

NEW DELHI: The Congress on Monday said that it is forming an Empowered Action Group (EAG) to prepare for the Lok Sabha elections 2024 and to address the political challenges that the party is facing. The party, however, avoided answering any queries on the induction of poll strategist Prashant Kishor into the Grand Old Party. The […]

  NEW DELHI: Embattled Congress to hold a three-day ‘Nav Sankalp Chintan Shivir’ in Udaipur to discuss the poll debacles in five states earlier this year and to prepare for the forthcoming elections with the main focus on the 2024 Lok Sabha elections. Speaking to the media here today, Congress general secretary and national spokesperson […]

NEW DELHI: Days after poll strategist Prashant Kishor presented a roadmap for the revival of the Congress, party leader Randeep Singh Surjewala on Wednesday said that the party had constituted a committee to look into Kishor’s suggestions and also called its two chief ministers to meet with him. Speaking to the media, Surjewala said, “Sonia […]

New Delhi: Senior Congress leader and Leader of Opposition in Rajya Sabha Mallikarjun Kharge on Monday appeared before the Enforcement Directorate (ED) in connection with the National Herald case. According to senior ED officials, following summons issued by the ED, Kharge appeared before the financial probe agency sleuths around 11.05 am to record his statement […]

NEW DELHI: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Saturday said that the grand old party had reached out to Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) chief Mayawati for an alliance ahead of the 2022 Assembly elections in Uttar Pradesh and even offered her the chief minister’s post, but she did not respond. “You must have seen that Mayawati did not fight the […]

NEW DELHI: Cautioning the government against the Chinese aggression along the Line of Actual Control (LAC), former Congress president Rahul Gandhi on Friday said China was applying the same that Russia had done to Ukraine. Speaking to media persons after meeting veteran leader Sharad Yadav at his residence here, Gandhi drew a parallel between Donetsk […]

BIRBHUM: CBI’s Central Forensic Science Laboratory (CFSL) on Friday visited the smouldering houses and adjunct area of Birbhum in West Bengal. Eight people were burnt alive on Tuesday following the murder of a local TMC leader in Bagtoi under Rampurhat in Birbhum. An eight-member-team from CFSL of the CBI went to the spot to collect samples […]

  NEW DELHI: The Congress on Tuesday hit out at the BJP-led government over the hike in the prices of petrol and diesel by 80 paise and liquified petroleum gas (LPG) cylinder by Rs 50. Speaking to the media outside the Parliament, Leader of Opposition in Rajya Sabha, Mallikarjun Kharge said: “The government has once […]

  NEW DELHI/CHANDIGARH: A day after cricketer turned politician Navjot Singh Sidhu resigned as Punjab Congress chief on the directions of party interim chief Sonia Gandhi, he humiliated his party, yet once again, by endorsing Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) which decimated his own party in the state in the recently concluded assembly polls. Sidhu congratulated […]

  NEW DELHI: Days after drubbing in assembly elections in five states, Congress interim chief Sonia Gandhi on Wednesday alleged that global social media companies are being manipulated to set political narratives and urged the government to put an end to the ‘systematic interference’ of Facebook and other social media giants on electoral politics in […]