Former Tripura PCC president and five-time MLA Birajit Sinha has been skipping the campaign for party candidate Asish Kumar Saha in West Tripura Lok Sabha constituency. Mr. Sinha is maintaining a visible distance from Mr. Saha, who is the incumbent PCC president as well as the party’s candidate. Mr. Sinha is also keeping away from … Read more
BRS MLA P. Sudarshan Reddy has expressed serious objections over the reported comments made by Telangana Pradesh Congress Committee (TPCC) A Revanth Reddy at Mulugu during his Hath Se Hath Jodo Yatra on Tuesday that he had no objection if naxalites blast the ‘Pragathi Bhavan,’ the official residence of Chef Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao. “Will … Read more
Telangana Pradesh Congress Committee chief A. Revanth Reddy turned emotional during his campaign in Munugode urging people to reject the money politics of the Telangana Rashtra Samiti (TRS) and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and said the Congress can no way match in the ugly distribution of money to ‘buy’ votes. With tear-filled eyes, he … Read more
Navjot Singh Sidhu adopted a blow-hot-blow-cold strategy vis a vis Congress leadership and the Charanjit Singh Channi government in Punjab on Saturday, tweeting he will “stand by” the Gandhis but saying nothing about withdrawing his resignation as PCC chief. By not withdrawing his resignation, Sidhu is sticking to his demand for a coordination panel to … Read more
As part of its preparations for the 2022 Assembly elections in Goa, Congress leadership will take inputs from the party leaders and cadres to prepare a strategy to take on the BJP, which outwitted the Grand Old Party in forming a government after 2017 polls, a party functionary said on Saturday. While former Union minister … Read more
AICC is trying to sort out the feud in Kerala after senior leaders Oommen Chandy and Ramesh Chennithala formally opposed the list of district Congress president probables PCC president K Sudhakaran submitted to it with the backing of legislative party leader VD Satheesan. AICC general secretary (organisation) KC Venugopal is known as the mentor of … Read more
Congress president Sonia Gandhi on Sunday appointed Navjot Singh Sidhu as the new president of the party’s Punjab unit, notwithstanding the opposition from Chief Minister Amarinder Singh. Gandhi also appointed four working presidents to assist Sidhu in the run-up to the next assembly elections. The new working presidents are Sangat Singh Gilzian, Sukhwinder Singh Danny, … Read more
Congress’ Bihar unit is the latest one to highlight its internal rift, this time over the appointment of a new PCC president. A number of senior Congress leaders from Bihar have opposed the proposal of AICC in-charge of the state, Bhakta Charan Das, to make party MLA and Dalit leader Rajesh Kumar Ram the new … Read more
HK Patil, All India Congress Committee (AICC) in-charge of Maharashtra, has disowned state party chief Nana Patole’s claim that Congress would fight solo in the 2024 Lok Sabha and state polls by disengaging from allies NCP and Sena. “That is not the view of the Congress leadership,” Patil told ET on Thursday. “The Congress is … 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