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.
Twenty-three opposition parties have joined the INDIA bloc meeting in Delhi, where leaders are expected to discuss inflation, unemployment, Parliament strategy and alliance coordination.
Maharashtra State Congress Committee President Harshwardhan Sapkal wrote to Maharashtra State Chief Electoral Officer S Chokalingam requesting that the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) not be conducted during the Pandharpur Wari pilgrimage due to expected heavy rainfall.
In a strongly-worded post on social media platform X, Rahul Gandhi alleged that there had been “massive manipulation in the CBSE examination results,” leaving “lakhs of students and their parents across the country in shock.”
Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah is likely to step down from his post following sustained intervention by the Congress high command, with the party leadership now working to facilitate a smooth transfer of power to Deputy Chief Minister D K Shivakumar amid mounting speculation over a long-discussed power-sharing arrangement in the state.
The Congress on Tuesday intensified its criticism of the Narendra Modi government’s handling of the economy; with senior party leader Jairam Ramesh alleging that the Centre was ignoring what he described as the “fourth and most critical F” confronting the country — the steady decline in private investment.
Congress Legislative Party leader Vijay Wadettiwar accused the BJP-led Fadnavis Government here on Monday, of bribing more than 60 Congress corporators with Rs 15 lakh, after they went “missing” with their phones switched off.
