Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday said the ongoing delimitation exercise in Jammu and Kashmir has to happen quickly so that polls can be held to install an elected government that gives strength to its development trajectory. In a series of tweets after a three-and-a-half-hour-long meeting with 14 political leaders of Jammu and Kashmir, Modi … Read more
Senior Congress leader M Veerappa Moily, one of the 23 signatories to the joint letter to Congress interim president Sonia Gandhi seeking organisational reforms, has distanced himself from the stormy visit to Jammu made by co-signatories Ghulam Nabi Azad and some other colleagues. Moily told ET on Monday that the joint letter of August last … Read more
The Congress on Saturday said the leaders in the “Group of 23” are respectable partymen in whom it took pride, but advised them to make their “best contribution” and display their “loyalty” to the party by campaigning to strengthen it in the states that are going to polls. The advice came in response to the … Read more
NEW DELHI: Rajya Sabha Chairman M Venkaiah Naidu has accorded recognition to Congress leader Mallikarjun Kharge as the Leader of the Opposition in the Rajya Sabha with effect from February 16. Kharge was named Congress leader in the House to succeed Ghulam Nabi Azad whose term has ended. “The Chairman Rajya Sabha has accorded recognition … Read more
New Delhi: Congress interim president Sonia Gandhi, in her online message on the Congress Foundation Day on Monday, called for the “unity of Congress” to strengthen itself and fight against the “authoritarian atmosphere” prevailing in the country, even as her son Rahul Gandhi tweeted from Italy to display his enthusiasm over the cause of the … Read more
Congress leader Ghulam Nabi Azad has tested positive for COVID-19. Azad informed this on Twitter and rquested all those who had come in contact with him in the last few days to follow the protocol. “I have tested positive for COVID-19. I am in home quarantine. Those who came in contact with me in last … Read more
Cong drops Azad, Soni as general secretariesGhulam Nabi Azad was among 23 leaders who had written a letter to party chief Sonia Gandhi calling for a complete overhaul of the organisation, a full-time president and elections to Congress Working Committee. Source link
Did Rahul Gandhi say it or did he not? This was the question on everyone’s mind after his purported remarks on a letter written by over 20 party leaders seeking urgent organisational reforms created a flutter. High drama played out at the nearly seven-hour Congress Working Committee meeting with sources saying that Rahul Gandhi lashed … Read more
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi at the Congress Working Committee (CWC) meeting on Monday hit out at those who raised the demand for a change in leadership alleging their letters were written in collusion with the BJP. Rahul, sources added, also questioned the timing of the letter by his party colleagues saying that it came when … Read more