India desperately needs a strong Opposition party. Sadly, Congress refuses to take that place. Its members always choose the Gandhi family’s wishes over their voters’. On Wednesday (Oct.19), 80-year-old M. Mallikarjun Kharge, the Congress party’s ‘consensus candidate’, beat 66-year-old Shashi Tharoor to be the new non-Gandhi Congress Party President in 27 years. Only the old…
To assume office on Oct.2 New Delhi: Amid the daunting task of reversing its electoral slide which began with the defeat in the 2014 LS polls, the Congress on Wednesday elected veteran Party leader from Karnataka Mallikarjun Kharge, a first from non-Gandhi family, to head the 137-year-old party in 22 years. Kharge succeeds long-time Party…
Shashi Tharoor gets 1,072 votes out of 9,385 New Delhi: Congress leader Mallikarjun Kharge swept the AICC (All India Congress Committee) Presidential polls this morning, paving the way for him to become the Congress’ first non-Gandhi President in over two decades. Kharge will replace interim Congress Chief Sonia Gandhi, who has been occupying the post…
Mysore/Mysuru: KPCC Spokesperson M. Lakshmana has demanded immediate inclusion of SC and ST reservation hike announced by the State Government in the Ninth Schedule of the Constitution. Addressing a press meet at Congress Bhavan here on Monday, Lakshmana wanted the Government to declare when the reservation hike will be included in the Ninth Schedule. Maintaining…
Pandavapura: AICC Acting President Sonia Gandhi joined the Congress Party’s Bharat Jodo Yatra led by her son Rahul Gandhi in Pandavapura taluk as the Yatra resumed in Karnataka this morning after a two-day break on account of Dasara festivities. Today is the Yatra’s fifth day of the Karnataka leg. The Bharat Jodo Yatra from Kanyakumari…
New Delhi: Setting the ball rolling for electing the successor to the longest-serving party chief Sonia Gandhi, the Congress’ central election authority today issued a notification for the AICC Presidential polls. After over two decades, the Congress is likely to see a contest for the post of party chief with Shashi Tharoor set to enter…
Mysore/Mysuru: Maintaining that top Congress leader Rahul Gandhi’s Bharat Jodo Yatra is being taken out for the welfare of the people, Opposition leader and former Chief Minister Siddharamaiah called upon the party workers to ensure a very good turnout for the Yatra when it reaches Mysuru early next month. Addressing a preparatory meeting of Bharat…
Rajaram, an influential leader in Congress circle, is the kingpin; Five arrested so far in the case By S.T. Ravikumar Mysore/Mysuru: Kuvempunagar Police have arrested Mysuru City Congress Vice-President and his driver on charges of selling Government and private properties by creating fake documents. With this, the total number of arrests in the case has…
Challenges State Government to probe corruption charges during Congress regime Mysore/Mysuru: KPCC Working President R. Dhruvanarayan has criticised the Janaspandana rally organised by BJP at Doddaballapur yesterday, saying that BJP leaders instead of listing the achievements of the BJP-led State Government had devoted most of their time in attacking the Congress party. He was speaking…
Over 3,570-km foot march will pass through Mysuru by September end Kanyakumari: Bharat Jodo Yatra, the Congress Party’s long march aimed at uniting the nation ‘amid growing divisive politics and practices’ started from Kanyakumari today, with Rahul Gandhi leading from the front. The Yatra, which aims at reviving party’s fortune by improving people contact, started…
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