Mamata's TMC set for landslide win in KMC Elections 2021, Left, BJP fight for second spot
Dec 21, 2021, at 04:03 pm
Kolkata/IBNS: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee's Trinamool Congress (TMC) is set for a landslide victory in the Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) Elections 2021 which was marred by sporadic violence on the polling day on Sunday.
Former Goa Congress MLA Aleixo Reginaldo Lourenco set to join TMC
Dec 21, 2021, at 12:57 am
Kolkata/IBNS: Former Congress MLA in Goa, Aleixo Reginaldo Lourenco, is all set to join the Trinamool Congress (TMC), IBNS has learnt.
One more Assam Congress MLA likely to join BJP
Dec 20, 2021, at 08:39 pm
Guwahati: One more Assam Congress MLA is likely to quit the party and join the ruling BJP.
Congress supports NPP govt in Meghalaya, gets closer to BJP facing TMC threat
Dec 19, 2021, at 05:29 am
Shillong/IBNS: The Trinamool Congress (TMC) has brought the Congress closer to its arch-rival Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) as the grand old party stunned all by supporting the ruling coalition, headed by National People's Party (NPP).
UP: Priyanka Gandhi Vadra to address Mahila Samvad rally in Rae Bareli tomorrow
Dec 18, 2021, at 05:46 pm
Lucknow/UNI: Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra is scheduled to address a 'Mahila Shakti Samvad' rally at Rae Bareli in Uttar Pradesh on Sunday during which she will interact with women.
Rahul Gandhi, Priyanka Gandhi Vadra to hold footmarch against govt in Amethi today
Dec 18, 2021, at 04:18 pm
New Delhi/IBNS: Congress MP Rahul Gandhi will be back in his former Lok Sabha constituency, Amethi in Uttar Pradesh, to hold a footmarch along with his party's state in-charge Priyanka Gandhi Vadra to corner the government on rising inflation, media reports said.
Amarinder Singh announces alliance with BJP ahead of Punjab polls
Dec 18, 2021, at 03:03 am
Chandigarh/IBNS: Former Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh has announced an alliance with the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) ahead of the state assembly elections.
Karnataka Congress MLA embarrasses party making 'enjoy rape' remark, apologises
Dec 17, 2021, at 07:07 pm
Bengaluru/New Delhi/IBNS: Embarrassing the grand old party, Karnataka Congress MLA and state assembly Speaker, KR Ramesh Kumar, made a controversial remark referring to "rape" to only later apologise facing criticism.
Rahul Gandhi slams govt over closing down of MSMEs due to COVID pandemic
Dec 17, 2021, at 06:18 pm
New Delhi/UNI: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Friday said the government has admitted that nine percent of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) were closed down during the COVID-19 pandemic.
PM Modi only fears losing elections: P Chidambaram
Dec 17, 2021, at 04:40 am
Guwahati/IBNS: Former Union Finance Minister and senior Congress leader P Chidambaram on Thursday said that Prime Minister Narendra Modi fears only one thing that is ‘losing election’ and he doesn’t care about anything even his party colleagues also.
Speculations of Harbhajan joining Congress as Navjot Sidhu shares picture with former cricketer
Dec 16, 2021, at 06:24 pm
Chandigarh/UNI: Punjab Congress president Navjot Singh Sidhu on Wednesday shared a picture with former Indian cricketer Harbhajan Singh on Twitter, indicating that the spin bowler may join the grand old party ahead of the assembly elections.
Lakhimpur Kheri violence: Rahul Gandhi demands sacking of Union Minister Ajay Mishra
Dec 15, 2021, at 06:26 pm
New Delhi/IBNS: Upping the ante in the Lakhimpur Kheri issue, Congress MP Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday reiterated his demand of sacking Union Minister Ajay Mishra whose son Ashish Mishra is accused of conspiring to kill protesting farmers, media reports said.
Nagaland killings: Assam Congress joins chorus for AFSPA repeal
Dec 15, 2021, at 05:15 pm
Guwahati/IBNS: Along with other civil society groups, organisations, tribal bodies, political parties of Nagaland and other states of North East India, Assam Pradesh Congress Committee (APCC) has also demanded the repealing of the Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act, 1958 from the North Eastern region.
Sonia Gandhi holds oppositions' meet, Mamata Banerjee's party not invited
Dec 15, 2021, at 04:51 am
New Delhi/IBNS: Congress supremo Sonia Gandhi held a strategy meeting at her residence in Delhi on Tuesday evening to devise a way forward on scrapping the suspension of 12 MPs of Rajya Sabha, which has led to an impasse in the Parliament.
Opposition stages march against suspension of 12 MPs
Dec 14, 2021, at 08:17 pm
New Delhi/UNI: The Opposition MPs, along with the 12 suspended MPs, staged a march from the Parliament House to Vijay Chowk outside the Parliament building, accusing the government of trampling democracy by suspending the parliamentarians and not allowing the Opposition to raise issues.
Sonia Gandhi, Rahul Gandhi in Rajasthan today for Congress's mega rally
Dec 12, 2021, at 06:36 pm
Jaipur/IBNS: The Congress is all set to hold a massive rally in Rajasthan which will have senior leaders Sonia Gandhi, Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi Vadra present.
Congress-led Punjab govt challenges Centre's move to extend BSF's jurisdiction
Dec 12, 2021, at 07:04 am
New Delhi/IBNS: The Punjab government on Saturday moved the Supreme Court, challenging the Centre's extension of the Border Security Force's jurisdiction from the International border.
Meghalaya: Garo Council Congress members join TMC
Dec 10, 2021, at 07:23 pm
Shillong/UNI: Amidst the ongoing political upheaval in Meghalaya, all the 11 elected Congress members of the Garo Hills Autonomous District Council (GHADC) left the party to join ranks with the Trinamool Congress (TMC) on Thursday.
Congress Lok Sabha leader Adhir Chowdhury hits out at Centre over Nagaland incident
Dec 09, 2021, at 11:45 pm
New Delhi/UNI: Congress' Lok Sabha leader Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury on Thursday hit out at the Centre over Union Home Minister Amit Shah's recent statement in the House on the Dec 4 firing incident at Oting in Nagaland's Mon district.
Congress delegation team detained at Jorhat airport
Dec 09, 2021, at 01:04 am
Guwahati: The Congress delegation team led by AICC General Secretary in charge Assam Jitendra Singh, along with Lok Sabha MP Gaurav Gogoi and Dr Ajoy Kumar, AICC General Secretary in charge Nagaland, was barred from going to Nagaland to visit the families of the civilians killed by security forces.
Firm in our commitment to stand by farmers on MSP: Congress chief Sonia Gandhi
Dec 08, 2021, at 05:45 pm
New Delhi/IBNS: Congress president Sonia Gandhi on Wednesday said her party was firm in its commitment to stand by farmers on multiple issues including the legal guarantee of Minimum Support Price (MSP).
'Akhilesh Yadav might be an astrologer': Priyanka Gandhi Vadra
Dec 08, 2021, at 05:49 am
New Delhi/IBNS: Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Tuesday slammed Samajwadi Party (SP) chief Akhilesh Yadav's for his 'zero seat' prediction for her party in upcoming elections.
Congress stages protest against Centre, Delhi govt
Dec 08, 2021, at 01:48 am
New Delhi/UNI: The Delhi Congress on Tuesday staged a protest against the Centre and Arvind Kejriwal-led AAP government in the national capital on various issues.
Punjabi singer Sidhu Moosewala joins Congress
Dec 03, 2021, at 11:06 pm
Chandigarh/UNI: Popular Punjabi singer Sidhu Moosewala on Friday joined the Congress in the presence of Chief Minister Charanjit Singh Channi and PPCC president Navjot Singh Sidhu.
Dec 02, 2021, at 07:46 pm
New Delhi/IBNS: Backing West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee's statement on the anti-Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) alliance, her political aide Prashant Kishor on Thursday said the Congress is "vital" in the Opposition but its leadership is not the "divine right of an individual".
UPA soulless body without Congress: Kapil Sibal countering Mamata's anti-BJP alliance statement
Dec 02, 2021, at 05:14 pm
New Delhi/IBNS: The Congress has come out to counter West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee's downplaying of the United Progressive Alliance (UPA), led by the grand old party, in the run up to the 2024 General Elections.
'What is UPA? There is no UPA': Mamata Banerjee in Mumbai
Dec 02, 2021, at 04:48 am
Mumbai/IBNS: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and Trinamool Congress (TMC) national general secretary Abhishek Banerjee on Wednesday met NCP chief Sharad Pawar at the latter's residence in Mumbai.
Congress joins hands with Vijai Sardesai's party in Goa, upsets TMC
Dec 01, 2021, at 06:23 pm
Panaji/IBNS: In a new political equation, the Congress has stitched an alliance with the Goa Forward Party (GFP) in the run up to the 2022 state elections, stunning the emergent Trinamool Congress (TMC).
Rahul slams Centre over passage of bill to repeal farm laws without discussion
Nov 29, 2021, at 10:58 pm
New Delhi/UNI: Congress MP Rahul Gandhi on Monday launched a scathing attack on the BJP-led government at the Centre over the passage of the bill to repeal farm laws in Parliament without discussion and termed it "unfortunate’".
Nov 28, 2021, at 06:03 pm
New Delhi/IBNS: Delhi Chief Minister and Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) supremo Arvind Kejriwal on Sunday slammed his critics for questioning the party's poll promise of transferring Rs. 1,000 per month to all women in Punjab if voted to power in 2022.