Former Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot has sparked a major controversy, accusing the BJP of pursuing communal politics, and claiming that former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi would have banned the saffron party if she were alive today.
The Congress party on Monday strongly condemned the killing of three Indian seafarers in a United States attack.
Former Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot on Sunday accused the ruling BJP of attempting to provoke Hindutva forces and deepen religious polarisation in the country.
On 8 June, a US federal judge in Boston struck down the Trump administration's $100,000 fee on new H-1B visas, ruling it an unlawful tax that Congress never authorized.
Congress workers staged a large-scale protest in Patna on Saturday, demanding the dismissal of Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan and burning effigies of Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
The Congress on Sunday organised a massive protest rally titled “Vote Chor, Gaddi Chhor” (Vote Thieves, Vacate Power) at Ramleela Maidan in Biswan, Sitapur, against the alleged electoral malpractices by the BJP-led government at the Centre.
The Congress party has intensified its campaign against alleged electoral discrepancies, with Leader of the Opposition Rahul Gandhi launching a newsletter that accuses the Election Commission of India (ECI) and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) of colluding to manipulate voter lists.
Even as visuals of a Youth Congress leader being tortured at Kunnamkulam police station in Thrissur have triggered widespread outrage in Kerala, CCTV footage of another custodial torture incident at Peechi police station in the same district has now surfaced.
Hundreds of Congress workers and farmers on Sunday staged a protest against alleged fertilizer shortage and other, breaking barricades erected by the police to prevent them from approaching Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Dr Mohan Yadav, who was away at Deotalab in the Mauganj district of Madhya Pradesh attending a programme.
Congress leader Jairam Ramesh said thay the Prime Minister will spend only three hours in the state, which he believes is an insult to the people of Manipur who have waited 29 months for his visit.
