Buoyed over by its win in the recently held Assembly election in Karnataka and Himachal Pradesh, the Congress party has stepped up its efforts to pose a challenge to the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party-led government in Haryana. Ahead of the Haryana Assembly and parliamentary elections due in 2024, the Congress, the main Opposition party in … Read more
The Congress high command on Wednesday handed over the total command of the Haryana Congress unit to senior leader Bhupinder Singh Hooda, who interestingly, is also a leading light of the Congress change-seekers. The move is being seen as the high command’s anxiety to humour, if not buy peace, with the entrenched Jat leader who … Read more
Amid speculation of an organisational revamp in Haryana Congress, the party’s senior leader Randeep Singh Surjewala on Saturday said he was unaware about any such change but advised there should not be a “situation of confusion” as it was against the party’s health. Surjewala’s remarks come amid reports that the Congress leadership was looking to … Read more
A closed-door meeting of a select senior Haryana Congress leaders with Rahul Gandhi and AICC representatives on Friday witnessed heated exchanges. The meeting, convened to discuss ways to strengthen the Haryana Congress ahead of the Lok Sabha and assembly polls, took place in the backdrop of intensifying factional positioning with competing stakeholders trying to wrest … Read more
Chandigarh: Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh, Haryana Chief Minister M L Khattar and a host of other leaders from the two states paid homage to freedom fighter Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose on his birth anniversary on Saturday. Paying tributes to Bose, Amarinder Singh described him as a great patriot and iconic hero of India’s freedom … Read more