Guwahati, Feb 17 (IANS) The Election Commission of India (ECI) on Tuesday undertook a detailed review of poll preparedness for the forthcoming Assam Legislative Assembly elections, with Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Gyanesh Kumar and Election Commissioners Sukhbir Singh Sandhu and Vivek Joshi holding extensive interactions with political parties and senior officials in Guwahati. The review marked the first day of the Commission’s two-day visit to the state on February 17 and 18. Duri…
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Bhubaneswar, Feb 17 (IANS) The Opposition Biju Janata Dal (BJD) and the Indian National Congress (INC) slammed the address delivered in the Odisha Assembly by Governor Hari Babu Kambhampati on the first day of the Budget Session on Tuesday. Members of both the Congress and the BJD also staged a walkout from the House in protest against the Governor’s address.Speaking to media persons, Leader of Opposition and BJD president Naveen Patnaik criticised the Governor’s address in the Assembly, sta…
New Delhi, Feb 15 (IANS) Congress leader Pawan Khera has clarified that veteran party member Mani Shankar Aiyar has “no official connection” with the Indian National Congress for several years and now speaks or writes entirely in his personal capacity. The statement came in response to a recent report published by The Indian Express, which quoted Aiyar predicting that Pinarayi Vijayan would once again assume the office of Chief Minister of Kerala following the upcoming assembly elections. Ai…
New Delhi, Feb 13 (IANS) Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge on Friday congratulated the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) and its chairperson, Tarique Rahman on their landmark win in the Bangladesh parliamentary elections.Taking to the social media platform X, Kharge posted, “On behalf of the Indian National Congress, I congratulate Mr. Tarique Rahman and the BNP for winning the Parliamentary elections in Bangladesh. India and Bangladesh share deep rooted bonds of history, language, cultur…
New Delhi, Feb 10 (IANS) The Indian National Congress on Tuesday reaffirmed its focus on organisational revival at the district level, conducting a productive one-day intensive training programme for newly appointed District Congress Committee (DCC) Presidents from eight states as part of the ongoing Sangathan Srijan Abhiyan. A total of 286 DCC Presidents participated in the session held at Indira Bhawan, where Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge and Leader of Opposition in Lok Sabha Rahul Gan…
New Delhi, Feb 9 (IANS) Women Members of Parliament from the Congress party on Monday wrote to Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla, expressing strong objection to what they described as “grave allegations” that they had “threatened or attempted to obstruct” Prime Minister Narendra Modi inside the House last week.The controversy erupted after Speaker Birla stated that he had received information suggesting Opposition MPs could do “something unexpected,” adding that he decided to adjourn the Ho…
New Delhi, Jan 26 (IANS) Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha, Rahul Gandhi, on Monday extended his heartiest greetings to the people of the country on the occasion of Republic Day and said that protecting the Constitution means protecting the Indian Republic, which is the true tribute to the sacrifices made by the nation’s freedom fighters. Rahul Gandhi took to the social media platform X and wrote, “Heartiest greetings to all our countrymen on Republic Day. Our Constitution is every India…
New Delhi, Jan 23 (IANS) Congress MP Shashi Tharoor chose to commit – unknowingly or not – at least two cardinal sins against his party’s topmost echelons in the recent past. leading to its leadership reportedly ignoring or belittling him, which has been the case earlier with several others associated with the party.Lately, the four-time Thiruvananthapuram MP is said to be upset being made to speak ahead of others junior to him after being reportedly told that he was ahead of only Rahul Ga…
Jaipur, Jan 23 (IANS) Former Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot on Friday paid tribute to Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose on his birth anniversary, remembering him as a former president of the Indian National Congress and one of the tallest leaders of India’s freedom struggle.”On the birth anniversary of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose, former president of the Indian National Congress and a towering figure of the freedom struggle, we pay him our heartfelt tributes,” he added.In a statement, Gehlot sa…
Thiruvananthapuram, Jan 22 (IANS) Leader of the Opposition (LoP), V.D. Satheesan, on Thursday wrote to the Speaker of the Kerala Legislative Assembly demanding that derogatory remarks and allegations made by State Ministers against former Congress president Sonia Gandhi be expunged from the official records of the House.Describing the remarks as a grave breach of parliamentary propriety, Satheesan said the Ministers’ conduct violated established rules, conventions and rulings governing Assembl…