Shiv Sena MP Sanjay Raut on Sunday claimed West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee was contemplating an alliance excluding the Congress. Mr Raut in his weekly column 'Rokhthok' in the Sena mouthpiece Saamana also claimed Ms Banerjee having said that her party Trinamool Congress (TMC) will not test political waters M | Read more|
As Mamata Banerjee pushes hard to emerge as the face of the Opposition by edging out the Congress, the Trinamool Congress today launched a fresh attack on the grand old party. | Read more|
The Congress today underlined that it is time to show opposition unity, a day after Mamata Banerjee - looking to enlarge her role in the opposition - snubbed the grand old party. "UPA. Without the Congress, UPA will be a body without a soul. Time to show opposition unity," tweeted Congress leader Kapil Sibal this morni | Read more|
The Congress's alliance in Goa with a former BJP ally ahead of polls next year has drawn a trenchant attack from a leader of the Trinamool Congress, which had pursued the party for a collaboration. | Read more|
The recent defection of 12 of the 17 Congress MLAs in Meghalaya, led by former chief minister Mukul Sangma, marks the erosion of the Congress in yet another state. The party will lose the position of main opposition in Meghalaya once these MLAs join the Trinamool Congress. | Read more|
Punjab Advocate General APS Deol has hit back at Congress leader Navjot Sidhu - who has demanded he resign from his appointed post for representing two accused cops in the 2015 sacrilege and police firing case. Mr Deol slammed the former cricketer for "repeated utterances (that) seek to derail the earnest efforts of th | Read more|
Congress General Secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Friday visited the families of four farmers who allegedly fell ill and passed away earlier this week while waiting in queue for fertilisers for a few days in Uttar Pradesh’s Lalitpur district. The Congress leader accused the UP government of failing to protect its f | Read more|
Congress president Sonia Gandhi dialled Lalu Yadav on Tuesday amid signs that the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) leader considers his long-time ally a dead weight in Bihar, especially with the approaching by-polls becoming a flashpoint between the parties. | Read more|
Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Sunday attacked the Centre over rising prices of petrol and diesel, alleging that the Modi government has created records in “giving trouble” to people. | Read more|
Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra has been stopped from travelling to Uttar Pradesh's Agra to meet the family of a man who allegedly died in police custody earlier today. She was stopped at the first toll plaza on the Lucknow-Agra Expressway. | Read more|
Punjab Congress leader Navjot Singh Sidhu, days after reaching a truce of sorts with Chief Minister Charanjit Singh Channi, has drawn up a 13-point agenda on governance - "priority areas" and promises made before 2017 polls he said "the state government must deliver upon". Mr Sidhu's suggestions, sent in a letter to Co | Read more|
Political strategist Prashant Kishor this morning signaled a fallout with the Congress in a tweet on the violence in Uttar Pradesh's Lakhimpur, which has made national headlines, as he said "there are no quick fix solutions to the deep-rooted problems and structural weakness of (the) GOP (Grand Old Party)". | Read more|
Former Meghalaya Chief Minister Dr Mukul Sangma, who is also the leader of opposition in the state assembly, will be travelling to Delhi tomorrow in an apparent attempt to seek the intervention of the Congress's top leadership "to resolve" certain internal issues. The visit comes amid speculation that Mr Sangma is upse | Read more|
The Congress has reached out to Amarinder Singh after his meeting with Union Home Minister Amit Shah, amid signs of another big exit from the crisis-hit party. | Read more|
Twenty-four hours after Tripura Chief Minister Biplab Kumar Deb asked civil service officials and executives to work for the people without “worrying about contempt of court” and said it is not easy to make indiscriminate arrests as the CM is “in charge of the police”, his comments have gone viral on social med | Read more|