Maharashtra State Congress Committee President Harshvardhan Sapkal demanded that Maharashtra Water Resources Minister Girish Mahajan should be expelled from both the cabinet and the BJP for insulting the Indian Army's role in fighting Khalistani terrorists during ‘Operation Blue Star,’ conducted at the Golden Temple in Amritsar, in June 1984.
The Trinamul Congress-led Memari Municipality effectively collapsed on Monday after 10 of its 15 TMC councillors, including the Chairman, submitted resignation letters to the Executive Officer.
The political contest for the third Rajya Sabha seat from Madhya Pradesh intensified on Monday as Congress candidate Meenakshi Natarajan filed her nomination papers at the Madhya Pradesh State Assembly Secretariat in Bhopal.
Opposition leaders used the INDIA bloc meeting to discuss strategy, alliance coordination and national issues, with Kharge highlighting inflation, jobs, electoral rolls and governance concerns.
As opposition parties assemble in Delhi to discuss the alliance's future, anonymous posters highlighting past criticism of Congress by its own allies have triggered fresh political chatter.
Kerala Chief Minister-designate V D Satheesan on Thursday said that the Congress party has entrusted him with a huge responsibility and views the high command's decision to choose him as Chief Minister as a divine mandate.
The Congress on Thursday finally ended nearly ten days of uncertainty over leadership in Kerala by officially naming senior party leader and Leader of Opposition V D Satheesan as the next Chief Minister, signalling both a generational shift and an attempt to consolidate the party’s emphatic return to power in the southern state after a decade in the opposition.
BJP and Congress traded fresh barbs after Sambit Patra questioned the funding behind Rahul Gandhi’s overseas visits and linked the issue to tax and FCRA rules.
As an observer of electoral politics in West Bengal - and increasingly of democratic life across India - one is compelled to confront an uncomfortable truth: Indian democracy, though vigorous in participation, appears increasingly fragile in purpose.
The BJP tightened its hold on Haryana’s urban political landscape with victories in major municipal corporations, while Congress alleged EVM irregularities during counting in Panchkula.
