The Congress on Sunday said reports of the party’s leadership change in the Lok Sabha are “premature and unfounded”. Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury is the leader of the Congress in the Lok Sabha and there are reports about his replacement, days before Parliament is set to meet. The Monsoon session of Parliament is scheduled to start … Read more
Congress President Sonia Gandhi on Thursday expressed concern over the pace of vaccination in India, and said the country needs to prepare for the third wave of COVID-19 and protect children. Addressing a meeting of party general secretaries and in-charges of AICC in various states, said the party must ensure that vaccine hesitancy is overcome … Read more
Turncoat BSP MLAs who joined the ruling party and independent legislators who supported the Ashok Gehlot-led Congress government during last year’s political crisis will hold a joint meeting on Wednesday amid lobbying for ministerial posts. The MLAs, who were elected as BSP candidates in the 2018 assembly elections and joined the Congress next year, are … Read more
The All-India Congress Committee (AICC) on Saturday said “the August 6, 2019 CWC resolution on the J&K issue is the party’s stand” on the matter and urged all party leaders to follow that. AICC spokesperson Pawan Khera said this in response to media queries on the BJP’s criticism of the Congress and its senior leader … Read more
Punjab chief minister Amarinder Singh on Friday put out a strong defence of his government’s record when he met the three-member AICC panel looking into issues within the Punjab Congress and its regime, it is learnt. In what is seen as a show of strength, many Congress MLAs, MPs and ministers called on Singh at … Read more
The Congress asked the government to explain the mounting trend of bank frauds from 2014-15 to 20120-21 as shown in the annual reports of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) and alleged that this unchecked fraud would only make “the nation’s journey from the promised $5 trillion economy to a Rs 5 trillion bank fraud”. … Read more
In continuing post-poll rumblings, Kerala PCC president Mullappally Ramachandran has refused to appear before an AICC factfinding team’s online engagement, citing “improper attitude”, and asked it to access his views on the poll debacle from his report to party president Sonia Gandhi. In his report to Gandhi, while offering his resignation, Ramachandran is learnt to … Read more
Congress President Sonia Gandhi on Sunday approved the setting up of an AICC control room to coordinate with the party’s state units about relief activities being carried out during during the second wave of the pandemic. The party has set up control rooms in each state to provide assistance to people in need during the … Read more
New Delhi: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Friday led the party’s protest in the national capital in support of the agitating farmers, and said his party will not relent till the new farm laws are repealed. He was accompanied by AICC general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra and other leaders of the Delhi Congress at the … Read more
New Delhi: Politics in Kerala has acquired a pre-poll suspense, quite unknown to the southern state’s cycle of voting out the incumbents. The local body elections on the eve of the April-May assembly polls produced a tricky political-religious-communal churn that now leaves the ruling CPM-led LDF with a hope of breaking the cyclical trend, the … Read more