Congress leader KC Venugopal on Thursday arrived at 10 Janpath to meet Congress interim president Sonia Gandhi in the national capital. He had previously met Gandhi on Monday to discuss the political turmoil in Rajasthan. Venugopal’s meeting with Gandhi came a day before the final date for filing nominations for […]
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Shashi Tharoor to file nomination for Congress president post tomorrow
Congress MP Shashi Tharoor is scheduled to submit his nomination papers for the upcoming presidential elections of the All India Congress Committee on Saturday. As per the information, Tharoor will visit 24 Akbar Road at 12.15 pm tomorrow. He will subsequently hold a press conference at 1.00 pm at his […]
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Digivijaya Singh joins race for Congress president, says will file nomination tomorrow
Congress leader Digvijaya Singh on Thursday joined the race for the post of Congress President. “Today I have come here to collect the nomination form and will possibly file it tomorrow,” Singh said outside his residence here today. The former chief minister of Madhya Pradesh met with Rahul Gandhi in […]
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BJP MP D Arvind says he expected a longer duration of PFI ban
BJP MP from Nizamabad Dharampuri Arvind on Wednesday said that he hoped for a longer PFI ban, and he also questioned the AIMIM’s stand on the issue. Earlier, Owaisi the AIMIM chief in a series of tweets said, “Actions of some individuals who commit a crime do not mean that […]
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Rajasthan: Sachin Pilot denies reports of bringing Congress MLAs together
Congress leader Sachin Pilot has denied media reports stating that he told the party high command that Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot should not remain in office if he decides to contest the party presidential poll. It was earlier reported quoting the sources that Pilot had told the high command […]
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JP Nadda to hold series of meetings throughout day with focus on BJP organisation
Upon return from his tour to Kerala, BJP national president Jagat Prakash Nadda immediately convened a series of meetings that is slated to continue throughout the day on Tuesday and focuses on the organisation. The meeting began at the party headquarters to review the progress of the Lok Sabha yatra […]
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Rajasthan: Congress leader Girija Vyas says “high command” orders should be followed
Reacting to the Rajasthan crisis, Congress leader Girija Vyas on Tuesday said that everyone should follow the orders of the “high command”. Reacting to the ongoing political crisis in Rajasthan, Vyas said, “I only have the opinion that whatever the high command says should be followed.” Her remarks to the […]
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YSR Congress MP Vijayasai Reddy welcomes CM Jagan Mohan Reddy’s decision on three capitals in Andhra
Rajya Sabha MP and YSR Congress general secretary Vijayasai Reddy welcomed the decision of Chief Minister Jagan Mohan Reddy to establish three capitals in Andhra Pradesh citing the Bengaluru floods as the reason. He said Andhra Pradesh’s decentralised model can help the government to manage cities with ease. “The floods in Bengaluru […]
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Ghulam Nabi Azad announces his new outfit ‘Democratic Azad Party’ ahead of J-K polls
Former Jammu and Kashmir Chief minister Ghulam Nabi Azad on Monday announced that his new political outfit will be named as ‘Democratic Azad Party’. The development comes exactly a month after Azad resigned from the Congress party. Announcing the name of the new party at a press conference here, Azad […]
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Rajasthan: Congress committee urges Sonia Gandhi to pull Ashok Gehlot out of party president race
With the deepening political crisis in Rajasthan over the appointment of Ashok Gehlot’s successor, Congress Working Committee members have demanded from Sonia Gandhi to pull the state chief minister out of the race for the party chief and select another candidate for the top post, sources said on Monday. Miffed […]
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Congress has never allowed ‘conditional resolutions’: Maken’s message to rebel Rajasthan MLAs
Congress leader and observer for Rajasthan, Ajay Maken on Monday dubbed the “unofficial” meeting conducted by state minister Shanti Dhariwal with the rebel MLAs of the Ashok Gehlot camp an “indisciplined move”, while also stating that the party has never allowed “conditional resolutions” to take place, as against the demands […]
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Veteran Congress leader Aryadan Muhammed passes away at 87
Former Kerala minister and senior Congress leader Aryadan Muhammed passed away at the age of 87 years on Sunday. Muhammed was undergoing treatment at a private hospital in Kozhikode and died in the morning. The former Kerala minister was an eight-time MLA, who represented the Nilambur constituency in the Malappuram […]
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Gujarat: AIMIM chief Owaisi slams BJP, calls out RSS chief Bhagwat’s Madrasa visit in Delhi
Amid the ongoing fracas about the surveys of madrasas and demolition of the same, AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi on Saturday slammed the BJP and RSS and called out both for “doing new drama”. Jibing at the RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat’s “duality”, Owaisi highlighted the former’s visit to a Delhi madrasa. “BJP-RSS is now doing a new drama. RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat went to a […]
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Maharashtra BJP demands ban on PFI
Maharashtra BJP president Chandrashekhar Bawankule on Saturday said that he will speak to Chief Minister Eknath Shinde and Deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis to ban Popular Front of India (PFI), which is involved in anti-national work in the state and country. His remarks came after a video surfaced on social […]
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Nominations for Congress president begins today
Filing of nominations for the post of Congress president is scheduled to begin today with a contest between Rajasthan chief minister Ashok Gehlot and former union minister Shashi Tharoor on the cards. The nominations will be filed till September 30 and results declaring the new Congress chief will be announced […]