Congress leaders Sonia Gandhi, Mallikarjun Kharge, Rahul Gandhi and other leaders during Congress Working Committee(CWC) meeting at AICC Headquarters on October 9, 2023, in New Delhi. | Photo Credit: Shashi Shekhar Kashyap As the dates for the Assembly elections to Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Telangana and Mizoram were announced on Monday, Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge … Read more
A view of new Parliament House Complex in New Delhi | Photo Credit: SHIV KUMAR PUSHPAKAR MPs to move to new Parliament on Tuesday, Opposition asks for Women’s Bill More than three months after the new Parliament House was inaugurated, Members of Parliament will move into the building on Tuesday, the second day of the … Read more
Prime Minister Narendra Modi shakes hands with Chinese President Xi Jinping. | Photo Credit: PTI Praggnanandhaa heads to World Cup Chess finals, beating Fabiano Caruana Continuing his dream run, Indian Grandmaster R Praggnanandhaa on August 21 stunned world No.3 Fabiano Caruana 3.5-2.5 via the tie-break in the semifinals to set up a summit clash with … Read more
The outgoing Congress Steering Committee will meet on February 24 in Chhattisgarh capital Raipur to decide whether or not there should be elections to the Congress Working Committee (CWC), party sources said on Tuesday. According to the Congress Constitution, “The Working Committee shall consist of the President of the Congress, the Leader of the Congress … Read more
The elections for the post of Congress party president will be held on October 17, according to ANI. The counting of votes will be held on October 19. The decision was taken by the Congress Working Committee which met under the leadership of President Sonia Gandhi. The filing of nominations for Congress president’s election will … Read more
(This story originally appeared in on May 15, 2022) NEW DELHI: The Congress on Sunday adopted the ‘Udaipur Nav Sankalp Declaration’, a roadmap for wide-ranging reforms in the party organisation to make it battle-ready for the next round of assembly and Lok Sabha polls. Sunday was the last day of the three-day Chintan Shivir being … Read more
Top Congress leaders from across the country will meet next month in Rajasthan’s Udaipur at the three-day brainstorming session to evolve the party’s strategy for its overhaul and revival in the wake of a series of electoral defeats. Sources in the party said the “Chintan Shivir” will be held from May 13 to 15 at … Read more
Ghulam Nabi Azad, a leader of Congress‘ change-seekers’ group, has shared with party chief Sonia Gandhi a broad framework for a “collective and inclusive leadership” that his group has demanded, people aware of the development told ET. Revival of the Congress Parliamentary Board (CPB), the most powerful decision-making body before it was junked in the … Read more
Congress president Sonia Gandhi on Wednesday engaged five senior leaders to assess the post-poll situation in five states and suggest organisational changes following its electoral debacle, a day after the state unit chiefs were asked to resign. Rajya Sabha MP Rajani Patil has been asked to assess the situation in Goa, Jairam Ramesh in Manipur … Read more
Amarinder Singh on Monday held the Gandhis totally responsible for the rout of the Congress in the assembly polls, claiming that the party was “comfortably placed” in Punjab before he was unseated as chief minister. In a statement a day after the Congress Working Committee (CWC) took stock of the drubbing received by the party … Read more