Tag: Congress

Manmohan Singh was preoccupied with saving his coalition during his second stint while Narendra Modi was "autocratic" in his first term as Prime Minister, former President Pranab Mukherjee wrote in the fourth and concluding volume of his memoirs to be posthumously published next month. ....

Leader of Opposition Ramesh Chennithala on Saturday wanted to know about whereabouts of Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan, as he is not to been seen in public, even during the campaigning for the Kerala civic polls. ....

While the farmers are protesting against the three Union agricultural laws enacted by the Central government, both the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the Opposition Congress have come face-to-face over these laws in Madhya Pradesh. On the one hand the BJP is saying these laws are in the interest of the farmers while the Congress has termed them 'anti-farmer'. ....

The US Congress has expressed concern over China's "aggression" along the Line of Actual Control (LAC) with India and declared as "baseless" the territorial claims by Beijing in the Himalayas. ....

Former West Bengal Minister Subhendu Adhikari on Thursday resigned from the primary membership of the Trinamool Congress. ....

During the Congress meeting at interim party chief Sonia Gandhi's residence, Rahul Gandhi's close aides K.C. Venugopal and Randeep Surjewala were not present, sources said. ....

In the results declared on Tuesday, the Kashmiris have experienced arguably their cleanest ever democratic process, after the Assembly elections of 1977, even as no political party reached close to the half-way mark of 140 seats in the first elections for District Development Councils (DDCs) in the Union Territory. ....

The Congress high command has given its nod for an alliance with Left parties for the West Bengal Assembly election next year. ....

Reeling from the mob attack on Congress, the nation's two highest-ranking Democrats and a Republican Congressman have demanded that Vice President Mike Pence act to remove President Donald Trump from office. ....

Day One of Joe Biden's presidency will kick off with a rash of executive orders. Covid-19 will overshadow everything else for the first 100 days but subsumed within will be efforts to push forward quick fixes on immigration, healthcare and a battered economy. ....