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Adilabad: Demanding suspension of the Jainath Sub-Inspector, activists of Congress staged a dharna in front of a police station in Jainath mandal centre on Sunday. The agitating activists alleged that Vishal, an innocent activist, was arrested and cops were disclosing his whereabouts. They accused police of booking a false case against Shravan. They demanded action […]

Hyderabad: Disproving the speculative reports about Prashant Kishor parting ways with the Telangana Rashtra Samiti (TRS) and joining hands with the Congress, the election strategist had a day-long confabulations with the TRS president and Chief Minister K Chandrashekhar Rao on Saturday. TRS party sources confirmed that Chandrashekhar Rao and Prashant Kishor were closeted for discussions […]

Jaipur: Amid speculations of a leadership change in Rajasthan Congress, Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot on Saturday said that his resignation is ‘permanently present’ with Congress interim President Sonia Gandhi. “My resignation is permanently present with Sonia Gandhi, so there is no point in repeatedly asking if the Chief Minister is going to change. The […]

New Delhi: Electoral strategy champion, Prashant Kishor while noting the steep fall of the Congress has proposed the “Reincarnation of Congress” to win in 2024. In an important presentation to the Congress top brass, Kishor has in his theme of “Reincarnation of Congress” talked about Preserving the soul, Creating a new body’. The inspiration is […]

Khammam: Mayor, corporators and leaders came down heavily on Congress leader Renuka Chowdary for her remarks against Transport Minister Puvvada Ajay Kumar and the TRS government. Speaking to the media at the minister’s camp office here on Friday, Mayor P Neeraja, her deputy Fatima Zohara, AMC Chairman D Lakshmi Prasanna and other public representatives expressed […]

Warangal: Followers of Warangal and Hanamkonda District Congress Committee president Naini Rajender Reddy and Jangaon DCC president Janga Raghava Reddy have almost come to blows at the University Arts and Science College ground at Subedari in Hanamkonda on Thursday. This unsavoury incident has come as a shock to Congress senior leaders including TPCC president A […]

Khammam: Congress being a secular party would never join hands with BJP, stated senior Congress leader V Hanumanth Rao. Referring to alliance with TRS he however, maintained that he was not an astrologer to predict the future. He felt that if the political strategist Prashant Kishor joins Congress it would benefit the party. Speaking to […]

Kolkata: The Trinamool Congress made a clean sweep on Saturday winning both the Asansol Lok Sabha and the Ballygunge Aassembly seats in West Bengal while the Congress bagged a constituency each in Maharashtra and Chhattisgarh and the RJD one in Bihar in the bypolls to these seats with the BJP drawing a blank. All the […]

New Delhi: Political strategist Prashant Kishor on Saturday presented a detailed roadmap for the 2024 elections before Congress interim President Sonia Gandhi and party’s top leaders. After the presentation, Sonia Gandhi set up a committee to look into the suggestions. “Prashant Kishor has given a detailed presentation for the 2024 election and Congress president has […]

New Delhi: The Congress is gearing up to oppose any move to implement Hindi in the non-speaking states after a controversy erupted since Union Home MInister Amit Shah said that Hindi should be accepted as an alternative language to English. The Congress said that the BJP is testing the waters by creating an issue and […]

Surat: Gujarat Congress Working President Hardik Patel on Thursday denied the rumours of leaving the party. “There is a rumour that I am leaving Congress, I do not know who is spreading so,” Patel said while attending an event in Surat on Thursday. He further added, “I have given my 100 per cent to Congress […]

Shivamogga: Karnataka Minister K S Eshwarappa, who is facing charges of abetment to suicide in connection with the death of a civil contractor in Udupi, on Thursday announced that he will step down from his position. Addressing a press meet here, Eshwarappa said, “I have served as the Rural Development and Panchayat Raj Minister in […]

Hyderabad: Unidentified persons pelted stones at the residence of senior Congress leader V. Hanumantha Rao in Hyderabad, police said on Thursday . A car parked in front of a former Rajya Sabha member’s house in Amberpet was damaged in the stone pelting. The attack took place on Wednesday night. Police rushed to the Congress leader’s […]

Karimnagar:  Congress party leaders and workers staged protest demonstrations in all constituency headquarters across the erstwhile Karimnagar district against a rise in prices of diesel, petrol, cooking gas, electricity and bus fares. They demanded that the State and Central governments purchase paddy produced by farmers in the State. As part of State-wide call given by […]

Nalgonda: Deepening differences of opinion among the Congress leaders is casting a shadow on its prospects in the next elections in the erstwhile Nalgonda district. Though groupism is a commonly accepted phenomenon in the Congress, the Congress leaders from the district were working with personal grudge against their targeted leaders within the party. Appointing Congress […]

Chandigarh: The official Twitter handle of the Punjab Congress was hacked on Monday. Punjab Congress’s official Twitter handle was hacked on Monday. The hackers removed the profile picture and posted a tweet that read, “In celebration of the reveal of the Beanz Official collection, we have opened up an airdrop to all active NFT traders […]

New Delhi: After the latest poll debacle questions were raised by the Congress leaders on the issue of leadership, accountability and the way forward. Now Sonia Gandhi, who was on the back seat, has taken the driver’s seat and has been active in and out of Parliament so that she can stem the internal rift […]

By Amitava Mukherjee The Congress is now going through a customary charade. As it happens after every other election, a group of senior Congress leaders has voiced its despondency at the miserable performance of the party at the recently concluded State elections. This is not the first time that the leaders feel ‘pangs of conscience’ […]

Hyderabad: TRS MPs staged a walkout from Lok Sabha on Tuesday after Speaker Om Birla failed to respond to their pleas for discussion on paddy procurement from Telangana State. Earlier, the MPs along with other Opposition members disrupted the proceedings in the Lower House with their vocal protests on the hike in fuel prices, paddy […]

New Delhi: Congress interim President Sonia Gandhi while addressing the parliamentary party on Tuesday said that the revival of the party is essential for democracy and the results of elections were “shocking” and “painful”. In her address she said, “Our dedication and determination, our spirit of resilience is under severe test. Unity at all levels […]