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  NEW DELHI: Tightening its noose around the Gandhi family, the Enforcement Directorate (ED) has summoned Congress chief Sonia Gandhi and his son Rahul Gandhi in connection with the National Herald case, sources said on Wednesday. According to senior ED officials, the Gandhis have been asked to appear before it on June 8. This is […]

NEW DELHI: Ending all speculations, Congress will not nominate Priyanka Gandhi Vadra for Rajya Sabha. The Congress on Sunday released the list of party candidates for Rajya Sabha. The list, announced by Congress interim chief Sonia Gandhi, includes the names of former finance minister P Chidambaram, former Union ministers Jairam Ramesh and Ajay Maken among […]

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): For the party that had once ushered in the economic reforms in the country, is in dire need of reforms itself. Acknowledging the fact, Congress interim president Sonia Gandhi on Friday stressed the “dire need of reforms” in the party and emphasised that change in working style is the need of the […]

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: Hours after Prashant Kishor turned down Congress’ offer to join the party, cricketer-turned-politician Navjot Singh Sidhu met the poll strategist and shared a selfie of them on Twitter. Showing enthusiasm about meeting his old friend, the former Punjab Pradesh Congress Committee president tweeted, “Had a wonderful meeting with my old friend PK… Old […]

  NEW DELHI: Putting an end to all speculations, the Congress party on Tuesday said that the poll strategist Prashant Kishor has “declined” its offer to join the party.   The development came a day after Congress announced to constitute an Empowered Action Group-2024 to address the political challenges it is facing.   “Following a […]

  NEW DELHI: Eyeing a comeback in the 2024 Lok Sabha polls, the Congress top brass, including its interim president Sonia Gandhi, held another round of meeting with poll strategist Prashant Kishor here on Tuesday. According to party sources, Kishor met the top leadership of the Congress for the third time in last four days […]