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Polling officials after collecting EVMs and other election material on the eve of the first phase of Lok Sabha elections, in Sikkim on April 18, 2024 | Photo Credit: ANI Voting for the first phase of the 2024 Lok Sabha elections will start on April 19 in 102 constituencies, ...

Congress MP from Karnataka DK Suresh on Thursday said that southern states will be forced to demand a separate country if the Centre does not provide them their rightful share of taxes, reported PTI. Suresh’s remark came after Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman presented the interim Budget for the ...

The Congress will begin the Rahul Gandhi-led Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra from the violence-hit Manipur on Sunday, in what is being seen as the party's bid to set the narrative in the run-up to the Lok Sabha polls and put the spotlight on issues such as unemployment, price rise ...

Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge, with party leaders Rahul Gandhi, K.C. Venugopal, Priyanka Gandhi Vadra during a meeting of General Secretaries/ In-charges, PCC President & CLP Leaders, at AICC Headquarters in New Delhi on Thursday. | Photo Credit: Shiv Kumar Pushpakar Invoking the success of the Congress-led United Progressive Alliance ...

These appointments came a day after the party appointed a manifesto committee led by former Union Minister P Chidambaram to shape the party’s campaign narrative and the issues it will focus on during the Lok Sabha poll campaign. At the Congress Working Committee (CWC) meeting on Thursday, several party ...

Congress leader Shashi Tharoor has claimed there is a “serious undermining” of every autonomous institution right across the spectrum and it seems the government has only the “loyalty” criterion before appointing individuals to head them. In an interaction at the Press Club here on Saturday on ‘The need for ...

Senior Congress leader Rahul Gandhi Tuesday termed as “ridiculous” party veteran Digvijaya Singh’s remarks questioning the surgical strikes conducted in 2016 on terror camps across the LoC in Pakistan. He said he completely disagreed with Singh’s remarks. “I don’t agree with what Digvijaya Singh has said. We completely trust ...

Uttar Pradesh Congress leader Shahnawaz Mangal Azmi had thought about dropping out of the Bharat Jodo Yatra after suffering a muscle tear in the first week itself, but a phone call to his wife changed his course. “I called my wife for her opinion, knowing well that she will ...

APCC President Gidugu Rudraraju addressing the media conference in Vizianagaram on December 27. | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement Andhra Pradesh Congress Committee’s new President Gidugu Rudraraju on Tuesday said that local padayatras will be taken up in all 175 constituencies of the State between January 26 to March 26 to ...

Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot accused the media of boycotting the Congress’ Bharat Jodo Yatra as it entered the state on Monday, reported NDTV.“It is the duty of the media to show it ,” Gehlot told reporters. “Rahul Gandhi’s positive yatra, positive thinking... there is no violence. If ...