AICC in-charge for Telangana Deepa Das Munshi and other Congress leaders invited Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) Mayor Gadwal Vijayalakshmi to join Congress. File | Photo Credit: RAMAKRISHNA G In another setback to the Bharat Rashtra Samiti (BRS), the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) Mayor Gadwal Vijayalakshmi is likely to switch over to the Congress. … Read more
Congress also sought the removal of all images of the prime minister from government bodies, offices, petrol pumps for the duration of the elections as the same violates multiple safeguards iterated in election law. | Photo Credit: Prashant Nakwe Alleging misuse of state resources for the poll campaign of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the Congress … Read more
File picture of Adhiraj Panigrahi | Photo Credit: X/@AdhirajMohan Congress MLA from Khariar in Odisha’s Nuapada district Adhiraj Panigrahi resigned from his party on Tuesday. Mr. Panigrahi, a first-time legislator, thanked the Congress leadership for providing him the opportunity to serve the people. “I hereby tender my resignation from all positions, including primary membership of … Read more
APCC general secretary Maddireddi Jagan Mohan Reddy and secretary Ravuri Lakshmi Narayana Sastry (Guntur) joined the YSRCP in the presence of Chief Minister Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy at his camp office at Tadepalli here on Tuesday. The two leaders worked in various capacities in Guntur and Bapatla district Congress units. Guntur East MLA Mohammad Mustafa … Read more
Countering the criticism by BRS leaders over the defection of their MLAs to Congress party, Gajjela Kantham, a Congress leader, has asserted that neither Huzurabad MLA P. Kaushik Reddy nor any other BRS leader holds moral right to denounce those shifting allegiance, as a majority of them are returning to their original political fold. Addressing … Read more
Vanchit Bahujan Aghadi (VBA) President Prakash Ambedkar | Photo Credit: ANI Vanchit Bahujan Aaghadi President Prakash Ambedkar on March 19 extended his full support to the Congress in seven seats in Maharashtra in the Lok Sabha election. He claimed that the Shiv Sena faction led by Uddhav Thackeray and the Nationalist Congress Party under Sharadchandra … Read more
Elamaram Kareem | Photo Credit: K. Ragesh The Communist Party of India (Marxist) [CPI(M)] has nominated its Rajya Sabha MP and Centre of Indian Trade Unions State general secretary Elamaram Kareem to contest from the Kozhikode Lok Sabha constituency in a bid to wrest the seat which has been held by Congress leader M.K. Raghavan … Read more
Hyderabad: Riding on its success in the recent Legislative Assembly polls, the ruling Congress in Telangana is banking on the implementation of its poll ‘guarantees’ to score big in the Lok Sabha elections, being held on May 13. An Assembly bypoll will also be held on that day in this southern state. The morale of … Read more
The Himachal Pradesh Police on Sunday registered a case against an independent MLA and the father of a Congress rebel and others over “electoral offences” related to the recent Rajya Sabha polls in which six party MLAs voted for the BJP candidate from the State. The case against Hamirpur’s independent MLA Ashish Sharma and Gagret’s … Read more
Jaipur: Several Rajasthan Congress leaders including former ministers Rajendra Yadav and Lal Chand Kataria joined the BJP Sunday, days before the expected announcement of the Lok Sabha elections. Former Congress MLAs Ricchpal Mirdha, his son Vijaypal Mirdha and Khiladi Bairwa; former independent MLA Alok Beniwal, former state chief of Congress Seva Dal Suresh Chaudhary, Rampal … Read more