Congress sinking its alliance partners, will fail PAGD in J-K as well: Anurag Thakur

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JAMMU: Claiming that no one is willing to embrace the Congress in the country, Union minister and BJP leader Anurag Thakur on Sunday said the party has crushed all hopes of its alliance partners to win elections and the result would be no different in Jammu and Kashmir where the maiden district development council (DDC) … Read more

Sonia chose Manmohan Singh as PM since he was no threat to Rahul, notes Obama in biography

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(This story originally appeared in on Nov 18, 2020) NEW DELHI: While he praises former PM Manmohan Singh’s sagacity and policies in the first volume of his biography, former US president Barack Obama notes that Singh owed his position to Congress chief Sonia Gandhi and had been chosen as he posed no political threat to … Read more

President Pranab Mukherjee: The people’s Rashtrapati

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By Thomas Mathew Pranab Mukherjee – or Pranab-da, as many of us fondly called him — was a man who made the long journey as a small boy from Mirati, a village in West Bengal’s Birbhum district, to Rashtrapati Bhavan, without ever losing his sense of equanimity and humility. Even as a doughty fighter of … Read more

Rahul Gandhi accuses Modi government of destroying informal economy, enslaving it

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NEW DELHI: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Monday accused the Modi government of destroying the informal sector of the economy and trying to enslave it. He charged that the government wants to break this sector and called upon the entire country to unite and fight against this. He cited demonetisation, “wrong” GST and the lockdown … Read more

Rajasthan Congress crisis: Sachin Pilot calls for a truce, party ready to address his grievances

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After a long drawn out standoff over the past month, Sachin Pilot met with Congress leaders Priyanka Gandhi Vadra and Rahul Gandhi on Monday and seems to have struck a deal with the party leadership that could see him return to the party ahead of Rajasthan’s August 14 assembly session. “Sachin Pilot has met with … Read more