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Bengaluru, March 31 (IANS) The Congress on Tuesday launched a scathing attack on the Bharatiya Janata Party-led Central Government over a fresh wave of price hikes set to take effect on April 1.Addressing a joint press conference at the KPCC headquarters in Bengaluru, AICC general secretary Randeep Singh Surjewala and Karnataka deputy Chief Minister DK Shivakumar categorized the new fiscal year as a “day of loot, rob, and fleece” for the hardworking citizens of the country.Surjewala said, “Com…

New Delhi, March 28 (IANS) Reacting to the arrest of former Nepal Prime Minister, K.P. Sharma Oli, Congress MP Sukhdeo Bhagat on Saturday said that political developments should not be driven by retaliation. The statement comes after Nepal’s newly-elected government arrested former Prime Minister K.P. Sharma Oli and former Home Minister Ramesh Lekhak in connection with a culpable homicide case linked to the suppression of Gen Z protests, during which several protesters lost their lives.Speakin…

New Delhi, Feb 22 (IANS) The surprising exit of former Assam Congress chief Bhupen Kumar Borah over “humiliation” within the party has brought the focus back on Congress’ perennial decline and its failures, particularly the party high command, in pacifying the veterans from moving out and also in settling the factional feuds that have lately turned out to be the biggest reasons behind its electoral setbacks.In many states, Congress units have been reduced to the margins, marred by internal par…

Bengaluru, Jan 28 (IANS) Karnataka leaders, including Chief Minister Siddaramaiah, Deputy CM DK Shivakumar, former Prime Minister and Rajya Sabha member H.D. Deve Gowda, and Union Minister H.D. Kumaraswamy on Wednesday expressed their condolences following the untimely death of Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar in a plane crash in Baramati.Chief Minister Siddaramaiah said he was deeply saddened by Pawar’s death and described it as a significant loss to public life. “Deeply saddene…

Bengaluru, Jan 8 (IANS) Responding to the high command’s decision to appoint him as the senior observer for the upcoming Assam Assembly elections, Deputy Chief Minister and Karnataka Pradesh Congress Committee President D.K. Shivakumar said that he had no option but to accept the responsibility.Speaking to the media in Bengaluru on Thursday, Shivakumar said, “I don’t have any option. My option is whatever the party asks me to do, I have to do it. Being a Congressman, I have to work for the…