Congress

Oppn plans march to Vijay Chowk in solidarity with suspended RS MPs

Speaker cautions Cong member against questioning his impartiality

6:12 pm November 21, 2019

New Delhi: Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla on Thursday cautioned a Congress member against questioning the Chair’s impartiality. The incident happened during the Zero Hour after Ravneet Singh Bittu, a Congress MP from Punjab, raised the issue of the Union government’s decision to withdraw SPG security cover given to the Gandhi family and was cut […]

Sonia slams Centre for ‘anti-people’ activities, ‘exploiting’ farmers

Urgent Cong meeting under way at Sonia Gandhi’s residence

11:37 am November 21, 2019

New Delhi: An urgent meeting of the Congress Working Committee is being held at party chief Sonia Gandhi’s 10 Janpath residence in Delhi. Congress general secretary organisation KC Venugopal said the meeting was called at 9:15am. The Maharashtra political situation along with other important developments are expected to be discussed.

Congress to raise electoral bonds issue in parliament

9:59 pm November 19, 2019

New Delhi: The Congress will raise the electoral bonds issue in the ongoing parliament session and move a breach of privilege motion against the then minister of state for finance for “lying” in the Rajya Sabha, party spokesperson Gaurav Gogoi on Tuesday. Briefing media persons here, Gogoi said the Election Commission in its letter to […]

Sonia expresses concern over Delhi air pollution

9:37 pm November 19, 2019

New Delhi: Congress President Sonia Gandhi on Tuesday expressed concern over the deteriorating air quality in the national capital and cited the introduction of CNG-powered public transport by the Congress government to tackle the issue. Speaking at the presentation of the Indira Gandhi Prize for Peace, Disarmament and Development, which was given to the Centre […]

Karnataka by-polls: ‘Crorepatis’ galore in Hoskote constituency

7:06 pm November 17, 2019

Bengaluru: Hoskote, one of the 15 assembly constituencies that is expected to witness a high stake battle for December 5 bypolls in Karnataka has “Crorepatis” in the fray. The constituency on the outskirts of Bengaluru is seeing a three-cornered contest between BJP, Congress and JD(S) supported independent candidate. While the ruling BJP has fielded MTB […]