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Hyderabad: Congress’ Bharat Jodo Yatra led by party leader Rahul Gandhi entered Telangana on Sunday, after completing the Karnataka leg of the nationwide foot march. Gandhi was accorded a grand welcome at the Telangana-Karnataka border by Telangana Congress leaders when the yatra entered the state. Congress Lok Sabha member and in-charge of party affairs in […]

The Congress leader is likely to address a gathering around 5.30 pm at Basaveshwara Circle Ground today.

Hyderabad: As the ruling TRS and BJP are intensifying their electioneering for the Munugode bypoll , the Congress, on the other hand, finds itself in complete disarray and appears to have thrown in the towel. A day after TPCC president Revanth Reddy said conspiracies were being hatched by the party leaders to dethrone him from […]

Nalgonda: BJP candidate Komatireddy Rajagopal Reddy on Friday alleged match fixing between TRS and Congress to defeat him in Munugode by-elections. Speaking to reporters Rajagopal Reddy charged that the TRS and Congress were working together for his defeat in the by-elections. The TRS which reaslied that there was a very thin chance of winning in […]

Status quoism has won over change. Family loyalty has prevailed over any out-of-the-box experimentation. The election of Mallikarjun Kharge, the octogenarian leader from Karnataka, as the Congress president, the first outside the Gandhi family in over two decades, comes as an unequivocal signal that the grand old party is very much under the grip of […]

Being a Dalit will help Kharge strike a chord with the underdogs, who were once traditional voters of the Congress but who, of late, have switched to the BJP.

Kurnool: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday said that he will report to the new Congress president who will decide his role in the party. He told reporters at Adoni during Bharat Jodo Yatra that the Congress president will be the final authority and he will decide how the party is going to move forward. […]

"Mallikarjun Kharge wins the Congress presidential elections with 7897 votes, Shashi Tharoor got about 1000 votes. Kharge has won with 8 times more votes," Pramod Tiwari said.

Ahead of counting of votes st to begin at 10 a.m., all the ballot papers will be mixed in an effort to not know how many ballots the two candidates -- Mallikarjun Kharge and Shashi Tharoor -- received from a particular state.

New Delhi: Congress on Tuesday questioned the Union government for the preferential treatment given to the Bilkis Bano case convicts, alleging that it has been done for elections. Addressing a press conference, Congress spokesperson Abhishek Manu Singhvi said that the Gujarat government affidavit “proves beyond a shadow of doubt that the release was a political […]

Nalgonda: The police on Tuesday detained one person and seized Rs.19 lakh from a vehicle on the outskirts of Gattuppal of Munugode assembly constituency during a vehicle check up on Wednesday. According to the police, the Rs.19 lakh was found in a Maruti Brezza on its way to the poll-bound Munugode. Flags of the Congress […]

Kurnool: Congress’ Bharat Jodo Yatra entered Andhra Pradesh on Tuesday as party leader Rahul Gandhi along with others reached Halaharvi village in the Kurnool district after a day’s break. The 3,500-km yatra from Kanyakumari to Kashmir on Monday observed a “rest day” on the 40th day of the march in Sanganakallu since its commencement on […]

Hyderabad: Ahead of the Munugode bypoll, a huge influx of leaders and activists from other political parties into the ruling Telangana Rashtra Samithi (now Bharat Rashtra Samithi) continues unabated. Ever since the poll schedule was announced, at least two dozens of major leaders from the Congress and the Bharatiya Janata Party including mandal presidents, MPPs, […]

Hyderabad: Denting the prospects of Congress in Munugode bypoll, Bhongir MP Komatireddy Venkat Reddy said he would not campaign for the party in the elections in which his younger brother Komatireddy Rajgopal Reddy was contesting as the BJP candidate. Taking a dig at the TPCC leadership, Venkat Reddy said “Home guards like me are of […]

"I have been waiting for long time for this day," she said to waiting reporters after casting her vote in a booth at party headquarters here. She was accompanied by her daughter and Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra. who also cast her vote here.

At the Telangana Pradesh Congress Committee (TPCC) headquarters Gandhi Bhavan in Hyderabad, leaders queued up to cast their votes.

New Delhi: The BJP and the Congress engaged in a battle of videos on Sunday with the ruling party putting out an animation video of Rahul Gandhi to take a dig at the Bharat Jodo Yatra and its rival then posting one taking a swipe at the “unfulfilled promises” of Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The […]

Conscious of the huge odds in Andhra Pradesh where it does not have a single MP or MLA, the party has planned the Yatra in such a manner that it will cover less than 100 km.

Taking a dig at the BJP, Ramesh said that those who did not participate in the Quit India movement are now criticising the Bharat Jodo Yatra.

About 500 leaders and workers from the Bharatiya Janata Party and the Congress joined the Telangana Rashtra Samithi (now Bharat Rashtra Samithi)