AICC general secretary Digvijay Singh says that next Prime Minister should have more powers. Digvijay says that Congress chief and Prime Minister should be the same person and requests Rahul Gandhi to do away with the practice of Congress chief nominating the ...
Widely believed to be the Congress' prime ministerial candidate in the 2014 elections, Rahul Gandhi confirmed that he is not in the race for PM post. He is now focusing on building the party, empowering the youth and creating a middle level leadership. Rahul G...
A week after being elevated as the party's vice-president, Rahul Gandhi held a meeting with the All India Congress Committee, his first such meeting without Sonia Gandhi around. From Andhra Pradesh, Sudhakar Reddy and V Hanumantha Rao attended the meeting. Rah...
Rahul Gandhi, the new Vice President of Congress, said that he does not want to get into negative politics as it is not going to take the country forward. Rahul Gandhi, who visited AICC headquarters after becoming the Vice President of Congress, made it clear ...
Rahul Gandhi has finally taken charge as the Vice President of the Congress party. He is currently at a meeting with party general secretaries and heads of departments at the All India Congress Committee headquarters at 24, Akbar Road in New Delhi. The Congres...
MLA and Youth Congress leader PC Vishnunath demands to strengthen Panchayat Raj system by giving more power and responsibility to panchayat committees. He hailed Rahul Gandhi's leadership in his address in Chintan Shivir, saying that he has equipped the youth ...
Newly appointed Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi sought a complete transformation in the prevailing political system during his speech in Chintan Shivir. He has also said that time has come to question the centralised unaccountable power. In an impassioned...
The war of words begins as Rahul Gandhi takes charge as the Vice-President of Congress party. The BJP slams Congress for anointing Rahul Gandhi as party No.2. BJP digs at Rahul saying he was elevated just because of his surname. Meanwhile, Congress hits back a...
Congress is all set to prepare for political challenges faced by the party through a two-day long Chitan Shivir in Jaipur. Chitan Shivir will be a highly crucial session for Congress, as the outcome of the session will set the guidelines for all future program...
Chintan Shivir, the strategic meet of Congress, will begin in Jaipur today with Sonia Gandhi addressing the delegates. The two-day long meet will focus on the 2014 Lok Sabha elections and the political challenges being faced by the Congress. After the crucial ...
The two-day long Chitan Shivir, a strategy session of Congress, will begin in Jaipur on Friday. Congress president Sonia Gandhi has given special instructions to include discussion on problems and challenges faced by women, in the background of the Delhi gangr...
The new list of KPCC office bearers will be declared officially today. Soni Gandhi had already given her approval to the new list. The declaration has been postponed as AICC General Secretary Janardan Dwivedi, was not in Delhi.
AICC General Secretary Rahul Gandhi threw his weight behind UPA's flagship scheme of direct subsidy cash transfer based on the Aadhar cards. Rahul was speaking to the Congress presidents of the 51 districts where the cash transfer scheme will be implemented fr...
AICC general secretary Rahul Gandhi will meet the Congress presidents of the 51 districts where Aadhar-based subsidy cash transfer will be implemented. Rahul will meet the 51 district Congress presidents to explain the benefits fo the direct cash transfer sche...
Union Minister for New and Renewable Energy Dr Farooq Abdullah, who is also the president of the J&K National Conference, said at New Delhi that AICC General Secretary Rahul Gandhi is a future leader of India, and there was no doubt that he would become Prime ...
The Congress high command will soon declare the office bearers of KPCC after permission from the AICC. Kerala chief minister Oommen Chandy and KPCC president Ramesh Chennithala met Madhusudan Mistry and other AICC leadership in Delhi on Wednesday to discuss re...
Talks for reconstitution of Kerala Pradesh Congress Committee will resume today. Kerala chief minister Oommen Chandy and KPCC president Ramesh Chennithala will meet AICC leadership to discuss the strategy for reconstitution. The discussion for KPCC reconstitut...
After the crucial UPA coordination committee, the government is now more confident of its numbers. Kamal Nath, addressing the media, said the UPA is united on FDI and the sense of the House was to go ahead for a discussion and not voting. Meanwhile the Congres...
According to sources in Congress, Rahul Gandhi could be a part of the 40-member team that will tour Gujarat as a part of the party's election campaign. The sources also say that a major AICC reshuffle is expected to happen before the winter session of the Parl...
Reacting to the CAG controversy, AICC spokesperson Sandeep Dikshit says that he has no reason to doubt what Union Minister of State in PMO V Narayanasamy has said. He says that the proposal to make CAG a multi-member body is a recommendation given by the Shung...
While the senior leadership meet for a brainstorming session at Surajkund, near Delhi to discuss their strategy for 2014 Lok Sabha elections, the opposition BJP says that this was a futile exercise. Taking a dig at its title 'Samvaad Baithak', senior BJP leade...
The Congress party's day-long conclave began at Surajkund with over 70 senior leaders of the party attending the session. The meeting, called to discuss strategies for the government, saw the leaders arriving in buses to keep up their support of 'aam admi'. Th...
Senior Congress party leaders left on buses for the party's day-long conclave at Surajkund. With about 75 party members attending the session, several issues will be up for discussion at the brainstorming summit. The brainstorming session has been called to di...
Congress party's senior leadership will meet for a brainstorming session at Surajkund near Delhi to discuss their strategy for 2014 Lok Sabha elections. All eyes, however, will be on party president Sonia Gandhi and party general secretary Rahul Gandhi about t...
The Congress party's senior leadership will meet for a brainstorming session at Surajkund, near Delhi to discuss their strategy for 2014 Lok Sabha elections. All eyes, however, will be on party president Sonia Gandhi and party general secretary Rahul Gandhi ab...
After Janta Party leader Subramanian Swamy's allegations against Congress President Sonia Gandhi and General Secretary Rahul Gandhi Young Indian company, the scene of fight now seems to have shifted to Mumbai. An RTI activist has alleged that prime Mumbai land...
The Congress on Friday broke its silence and rejected the allegations levelled by Janata Party chief Subramanian Swamy and said that its support to National Herald newspaper was interest-free loans yielding no commercial profit to the party. After the party sp...
Janata Party president Subramanian Swamy on Thursday had accused Congress president Sonia Gandhi and her son Rahul Gandhi of fraud by floating companies to take control of prime property. However, Rahul Gandhi was quick to deny the allegations and said he woul...
Union Law Minister Salman Khurshid has surprised the nation with his most aggressive defense thus far. He has gone to the extent of making a direct unambiguous threat of violence against anti-graft crusader Arvind Kejriwal. However, what's truly shocking is th...
The Congress high command has disowned Haryana Congress leader Dharamvir Goyat's shocking comment on rape. Congress leader Jagdambika Pal has clarified that the statement made by the Haryana Congress leader is his personal opinion and not the view sanctioned b...
Former Haryana Chief Minister Omprakash Chautala targets Sonia Gandhi over the accusations made against her son-in-law Robert Vadra. Social activist-turned-politician Arvind Kejriwal has levelled serious accusations against Vadra of using political clout to fu...
The Mulayam Singh Yadav-led Samajwadi Party has also latched onto the allegations made against the Gandhi family, especially Robert Vadra. SP General Secretary Mohan Singh has demanded a probe into the allegations by a sitting Supreme Court judge. The SP has t...
Congress has taken an aggressive stand even as Arvind Kejriwal claims that he has fool-proof evidence of a nexus between the Haryana government and DLF. Haryana MP Deepender Hooda, who is also the Chief Minister's son, claims that the government is in the clea...
The UPA's political managers will be keeping a close eye on the developments in Lucknow today as BSP Chief Mayawati is likely to decide her party's future political strategy at the national executive meet today. A day after holding her first rally since losing...
Following up on his allegations with what he claims is proof, social-activist-turned-politician Arvind Kejriwal is pointing out at a nexus between the DLF and the Haryana government. He has alleged violations in the Haryana government's handing over of prime l...
On Sunday, Telangana March has its repercussions in Delhi too. The overwhelming response to the march in Hyderabad had been noticed by the Congress High Command. And feeling them information are seniors Andhra Pradesh leaders, Palvai Goverdhan Reddy and V Hanu...
Congress Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad met TRS president K Chandrasekhar Rao at his residence in New Delhi, for more than an hour. It is believed that Azad has told KCR that talks on Telangana stopped because of the sudden withdrawal of Trinamool Congress from the...
Cong leaders are protesting against Omar Abdullah's Government in Jammu and Kashmir, and demanding his resignation. Abdullah is criticised for not providing enough security and powers to the panchayat. This led to a delegation of sarpanches meeting the AICC Ge...
Panchayat leaders from Jammu and Kashmir are satisfied with AICC General Secretary Rahul Gandhi's assurances after their meeting with him on Thursday. They have requested Rahul to visit J&K and meet sarpanches, arrange for their security and compensate famili...
The Congress Working Committee meet, chaired by party president Sonia Gandhi, is underway in Delhi. The CWC meet will take stock the political crisis caused by the exit of Mamata Banerjee-led TMC. The CWC may possibly pass a resolution to endorse FDI in retail...
Sources have revealed that a cabinet reshuffle is likely to take place as early as next week as TMC's exit from the government has created vacancy in the cabinet. A few Union Ministers, who had planned foreign trips, were asked cancel them keeping in view with...
Leading Congress' counter-attack over coal scam, Union Minister and AICC general secretary Ghulam Nabi Azad has said that the Congress led government established a Screening Committee for coal block allocation because of the discrepancies rampant in the alloca...
RJD chief Lalu Prasad Yadav stands up for the Congress. He says he is not in favour of the monsoon session of the Parliament being adjourned sine die. He claims it is just a ruse to destabilise the Govt and the BJP has in fact taken heavy bribes from the Reddy...
Congress President Sonia Gandhi has addressed MPs and asked them to stop being defensive. The Govt is open to the possibility of a mid-term poll though it has 18 months to go before completing its term. AICC General Secretary Janardhan Dwivedi speaks to the me...
UPA Chairperson Sonia Gandhi steps up defence and slams BJP at a Parliamentary meeting. She calls the dispruption of Parliament disrespectful. The 'motamaal' comment is another sore spot and Congress has objected to it. Sonia states that there is no case again...
The Congress High Command has decided not to make any changes in the Andhra Pradesh Cabinet putting an end to all the rumours running in the State for sometime now. The issue became clear after Andhra Chief Minister Kiran Kumar Reddy met Congress President Son...
AICC observer Krishnamurthy says Chief Minister Kiran Kumar Reddy won't be changed as he had been elected for the entire term. He also said it is for the CM to decide on the resignation of Dharmana Prasada Rao.
Trouble brewing in the Himachal Pradesh Congress, as former Chief Minister Virbhadra Singh resigns from the Campaign Committee ahead of the state Assembly elections. He's apparently peeved over Sheila Dikshit being made the head of the AICC screening committee...
AICC member Krishnamurthy's flash visit to Hyderabad has set Congress minds working. Is he in Hyderabad to gauge the mood for a leadership change in the state?
Uttarakhand's new Chief Minister Vijay Bahuguna brushes aside differences with senior state leader Harish Rawat and claims that the problems within the party will be sorted out soon.
The swearing-in ceremony of Uttarakhand CM designate Vijay Bahuguna has been postponed after senior Congress leader Harish Rawat objected against Bahuguna's appointment.
With the Congress facing a full blown rebellion in Uttarakhand, the party has decided to postpone the swearing-in ceremony of chief minister designate Vijay Bahuguna.
Congress central leadership has called up Uttarakhand chief minister designate Vijay Bahuguna and senior leader Harish Rawat to work out a compromise formula.
In a sign of dissent in Uttarakhand Congress over the choice of chief minister, state leader Harak Singh Rawat said that Harish Rawat's supporters would not tolerate the injustice done to their leader.
Hours after Congress MP Vijay Bahuguna was named as the next Uttarakhand CM, legislators supporting Harish Rawat openly revolted against the appointment.
Factional feud has come out in the open in Congress' Uttarakhand unit with legislators supporting Harish Rawat protesting the naming of Vijay Bahaguna as chief minister.
Sonia Gandhi will discuss the poll results of the five states with general secretaries and office-bearers at the All Indian Congress Committee headquarters.
Rahul Gandhi's role is evident after the flip-flop by the Parliamentary Standing Committee on the Lokpal Bill, said Anna Hazare while speaking to the media at Ralegan Siddhi.