NEW DELHI: Congress MP from Amethi Kishori Lal Sharma on Monday slammed the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) for using the name of Lord Ram for political benefits. Sharma alleged that the slogan of ‘400 paar’ worked against the BJP.“The slogan of ‘400 Paar’ worked against them. This government stands on crutches. Lord Ram has punished…
KOLHAPUR: Shahu Chhatrapati, the newly elected MP from the Kolhapur Lok Sabha constituency, met Congress Parliamentary Party chairperson Sonia Gandhi on Saturday.The new MP was accompanied by Congress MLC Satej Patil and former Congress MLA Malojiraje Chhatrapati during his meeting with Sonia Gandhi.Speaking to TOI, Shahu Chhatrapati said: “We spoke for few minutes.She told us…
NEW DELHI: Senior Congress leader Jairam Ramesh on Sunday launched a scathing attack on Prime Minister Narendra Modi for paying tribute to Mahatma Gandhi before swearing-in ceremony and called it ‘breath-taking hypocrisy’.Taking to X, Jairam ramesh said, “Aap track record dekhiye–His ideological brotherhood created such a toxic environment of hostility and hatred that it resulted…
NEW DELHI: Congress general secretary K C Venugopal on Saturday said the extended Congress Working Committee (CWC) had unanimously passed a resolution requesting Rahul Gandhi to take the position of the Leader of Opposition in Lok Sabha.Hailing the Lok Sabha results as the beginning of the revival of the Congress, Venugopal said the atmosphere in…
NEW DELHI: Congress MP from Thiruvananthapuram Shashi Tharoor on Friday clarified his position on his political future and said that he might not contest another Lok Sabha election if the next polls are held five years from now. Tharoor said people should know when to step aside for the ‘younger blood’. “Not electoral politics but…
After Congress’s surprise comeback in Punjab, which saw it win 7 of the 13 Lok Sabha seats, leader of opposition Partap Singh Bajwa tells TOI’s Subodh Ghildiyal that not allying with AAP was a conscious decision that bore fruit.How did Congress do so well after being wiped out in the assembly polls 2022?I and state…
NEW DELHI: Vishal Patil who has been elected as independent MP from Sangli in Maharashtra on Thursday met the Congress brass and extended his support to the party. The development is significant as Congress that was stuck at 99 MPs can claim support of 100 members, even if technically an independent cannot join a political…
LUCKNOW: Congress MP Rahul Gandhi has got a thumping mandate in both Wayanad and Rae Bareli, but which seat will he retain? Rahul won the Rae Bareli seat with a margin of over 3.9 lakh votes and Wayanad by over 3.6 lakh votes.The sentiment in the Gandhi bastion is that he should retain Rae Bareli…
NEW DELHI: Amid elation in the Congress camp over its performance in the Lok Sabha elections, there is a growing desire in the party that Rahul Gandhi take up the post of leader of opposition in Lok Sabha and lead the party from the front in Parliament.Congress failed to get the top opposition perch after…
When BJP derided the coming together of opposition parties under INDIA alliance last July as the banding of the “corrupt” against Narendra Modi, little did the ruling camp realise that the 16 disparate and volatile regional satraps could forge a seamless coordination under a common policy platform which would give the NDA a run for…
