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Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge on Monday constituted the party's Central Election Committee with 16 members including himself and former party chiefs Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi.

The CWC meeting will be followed by a massive public rally in the evening around Hyderabad on the same day

Addressing a news conference, he said the Congress party leadership ought to implement what it had promised in Telangana in all the Congress-ruled states including Karnataka and Rajasthan if it was sincere on the welfare and development of the Dalits and tribal communities.

The INDIA bloc leaders had on Monday evening informally met and discussed several issues on the first day of the two-day meeting.

The political atmosphere in the country literally caught fire on Thursday after one tweet from Parliamentary Affairs Minister Pralhad Joshi.

In an open letter addressed to Kharge, Sravan listed out Chief Minister K Chandrashekhar Rao's initiatives for the socio-economic empowerment of Dalits and tribals in Telangana over the last nine years.

Mallikarjun Kharge, Rahul Gandhi arrived in the city to attend the mega launch of the ambitious Gruha Laxmi scheme in the state.

Meanwhile, Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge has said that the reduction in the price of cooking gas per cylinder is nothing but a lollipop by the union government before the 2024 Lok Sabha polls.

BRS senior leader Dasoju Sravan questioned the sincerity of the Congress party in releasing the SC and ST Declaration in Telangana

No question of having any kind of alliance with BRS as it had joined hands with the AIMIM, said Amit Shah

Mallikarjun Kharge on Sunday claimed that the BJP-ruled Madhya Pradesh has the highest rate of crimes against Dalits

Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge condemned the incident of a class teacher making other children thrash a student on the basis of religious discrimination.

The major organisational change comes ahead of assembly polls later this year.

He also alleged that the proposed amendment of the RTI Act under the guise of the data protection law is "a cowardly attack on the right to information by an authoritarian government".

According to railway and police officials 17 bodies have been recovered so far ad many other workers are feared trapped at the accident site.

The Congress also said that on this day, MGNREGA was passed under the leadership of Manmohan Singh.

The all-important Congress Working Committee, formed 10 months after Kharge took charge after defeating Tharoor, has 39 regular members, 32 permanent invitees and 13 special invitees

Sachin Pilot, who rebelled against the party's government in Rajasthan and was later removed as deputy chief minister, is also among the new CWC members.

Among others, Delhi Pradesh Congress chief Anil Kumar Chaudhary also paid homage to Gandhi.

Congress General Secretary in-charge Organisation KC Venugopal said that the Election Manifesto Committee will be headed by Mohd Akbar.