The Congress’s Central Election Committee (CEC) on Wednesday cleared names of 10 Lok Sabha candidates, including former Union minister Sushil Kumar Shinde’s daughter Praniti Shinde, for Maharashtra; and seven each for Gujarat and Rajasthan, leaders aware of developments said. In the four meetings, the party’s top poll body has so far finalised 82 candidates across … Read more
The Sultanpur court awarded Congress leader Rahul Gandhi bail on Tuesday in a 2018 defamation case filed by BJP politician Vijay Mishra over the former’s statements on Home Minister Amit Shah. According to his lawyer, the judge held him in jail for 30-45 minutes. Speaking about Rahul’s bail, counsel Santosh Pandey stated, “He (Rahul Gandhi) … Read more
The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) made an alliance offer to the Congress on Tuesday in Delhi, only days after declaring that it will fight all 13 seats in Punjab. However, the offer was accompanied by a scathing criticism from the party, which said that the Congress did not deserve a single seat in Delhi based … Read more
A day after former Maharashtra Chief Minister Ashok Chavan resigned from the Congress, former party MP Sanjay Nirupam stated he was dissatisfied with a Maharashtra leader’s working style. Former Congress MP Sanjay Nirupam expressed his displeasure with the working methods of a Maharashtra politician the day after former Chief Minister Ashok Chavan departed from the … Read more
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi said on Thursday that Prime Minister Narendra Modi was not born into an Other Backward Class family and was “misleading” people by identifying as an OBC. Rahul Gandhi, in a brief address at Jharsuguda on the third and last day of his ‘Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra’ in Odisha, claimed Modi “was … Read more
On Sunday, the All India Congress Committee named coordinators for major Lok Sabha constituencies and filled other significant roles, paving the way for the 2024 general elections. Mallikarjun Kharge, Congress president, has approved the appointments of constituency coordinators, the Assam state election committee, and presidents of the National Students’ Union of India for three state … Read more
In a display of political brinkmanship, the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) has issued a stern warning that it will walk out of the Opposition meeting in Patna on Friday if the Congress party does not pledge its support against the Centre’s ordinance regarding the control of administrative services in Delhi. The stakes are high as … Read more