mallikarjun kharge

  NEW DELHI: Accompanied by senior leaders Sharad Pawar, Rahul Gandhi, and Mallikarjun Kharge, joint Opposition candidate Margaret Alva filed her nomination papers for the Vice-Presidential election on Tuesday.  Shiv Sena leader Sanjay Raut, CPI (M) leader Sitaram Yechury, Rashtriya Janata Dal’s Manoj Jha and Samajwadi Party’s Ramgopal Verma, MDMK’s Vaiko, CPI’s D Raja were […]

NEW DELHI: Even as the Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) government is facing a litmus test in Maharashtra, the Congress on Thursday accused the Bharatiya Janata Party-led Central government of trying to destabilise a stable government in Maharashtra ahead of presidential polls. The Grand Old Party also said that all the three alliance partners will remain […]

NEW DELHI: At a seemingly show of an anti-BJP front, in a throwback to the 2019 Lok Sabha polls and in its run-up when the regional giants had stitched up a combine at the swearing-in of the JDS-Congress-BSP alliance in Karnataka, Mamata Banerjee convinced a galaxy of Opposition leaders to propose Gopalkrishna Gandhi, Mahatma Gandhi’s […]

NEW DELHI: To retire or not to retire! The deliberations are still on but it seems it will be one tough pill for Congress to swallow. Sources in the Grand Old Party told The New Indian that while Congress deliberated and mostly agreed on the contentious issues of ‘One Family, One Post’, no person should […]

NEW DELHI: In an indication of reconciliation to G-23 leaders, Congress President Sonia Gandhi on Tuesday named former Leader of the Opposition in the Rajya Sabha Ghulam Nabi Azad and his deputy Anand Sharma as part of a nine-member Political Affairs Group (PAG) nine days after the Nav Sankalp Chintan Shivir in Rajasthan’s Udaipur. Besides […]

UDAIPUR (RAJASTHAN): One of the many reasons that have been cited as key to Congress’s gradual decline is its leaders’ propensity for nepotism. On the first day of the three-day Chintan Shivir in Udaipur, the Congress asserted that the Grand Old Party will witness a massive change as it discussed ‘one family, one ticket’. Addressing […]

NEW DELHI: It was a statement of admission as Congress interim president Sonia Gandhi on Monday acknowledged that there are no magic wands for her party’s revival of fortune. Sonia Gandhi was speaking at the Congress Working Committee meeting ahead of the party’s three-day Chintan Shivir in Udaipur, Rajasthan from May 13 to 15. Speaking […]

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: The Congress on Thursday slammed the Central government for the adjournment of the Budget session of Parliament ahead of its schedule, accusing it of running away from discussion on inflation and price rise despite being demanded by combined Opposition. The Congress party said that the government had allocated time for a discussion on […]

NEW DELHI: Facing stiff challenge from the Trinamool Congress (TMC), which is visibly assuming the role of the main opposition, the Congress on Thursday hit back at West Bengal Chief Minister and TMC chief, Mamata Banerjee, for switching alliance between the NDA and the UPA as per her convenience. Calling her a political opportunist in […]