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Unemployment issue not political, but humanitarian: Priyanka Gandhi Vadra

Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra said on Thursday that the problem of unemployment was not a political issue, but a humanitarian one and promised to extend all possible help in the matter

DMK, Congress oppose Banking Regulation (Amendment) Bill in Lok Sabha

The bill, which seeks to bring cooperative banks under the supervision of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI), will replace an ordinance promulgated in June. The bill was later passed by Lok Sabha

Cong raises in Parliament issue of alleged surveillance by Chinese company

Congress members raised in both Houses of Parliament the alleged tracking of over 10,000 prominent Indian individuals and organisations by a Chinese technology company

Congress alleges double-speak by ministers on LAC and stand-off with China

A day after Rajnath Singh made a detailed statement on the LAC and said China had occupied 38,000 sq km of Indian territory illegally, the Congress alleged that government is not speaking in one voice

Cong MP seeks scientific basis for claim on lockdown curbing Covid deaths

Senior Congress leader Anand Sharma on Wednesday questioned the government's claims that the lockdown prevented up to 2.9 million Covid-19 cases

Cong seeks compensation for families of migrants killed amid Covid lockdown

Congress member Anand Sharma sought compensation for families of migrant workers who died while walking thousands of kilometers to their native places after the lockdown was imposed

Congress gives short discussion notice in RS over India-China border row

Anand Sharma has given a short duration discussion notice in Rajya Sabha over 'the incursion of the Chinese army across LAC and military standoff between the armies of the two countries on the LAC

Maharashtra Congress to protest against govt's onion export ban tomorrow

The Central government on Monday banned the export of all varieties of onions with immediate effect to increase availability and curb prices of the commodity in the domestic market

Making false excuses to hide Cong's failures: AAP hits back at Rahul Gandhi

Rahul Gandhi is making false excuses to hide his party's failures, AAP's Sanjay Singh said after the Congress leader alleged that IAC and the AAP were propped up by the RSS-BJP to bring down UPA

India Against Corruption, AAP propped by RSS-BJP to bring down UPA: Rahul

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday alleged that the India Against Corruptionmovement and the Aam Aadmi Party were propped by the RSS-BJP to subvert democracy and bring down the UPA government. Gandhi cited AAP founder member and civil rights lawyer Prashant Bhushan's reported claim that the movement was to a large extent supported and propped by the BJP-RSS to bring down the Congress government and get themselves in power. "What was known to us has been confirmed by a founding AAP member," the former Congress chief tweeted, tagging a media report on Bhushan's remarks. "The IAC movement and AAP were propped up by the RSS/BJP to subvert democracy and bring down the UPA government," Gandhi, who is accompanying his mother Sonia Gandhi to the US for her medical check-up, said. Bhushan was part of the India Against Corruption movement which was the precursor to AAP led by Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal. In 2015, Bhushan along with Yogendra Yadav was expelled from AAP over all

Maken slams Centre, AAP for not challenging SC ruling on slum removal

Congress slammed Modi government and Kejriwal government for not taking up the matter of demolishing 48,000 slums near the railway lines in Delhi in Supreme Court and accused them of doing politics

'Attack on farmers' rights': Congress slams govt's farm sector bills

Congress hit out at the government over the introduction of 3 farmers-related bills, alleging that they will give "freedom" to corporates to "brutally exploit" farmers and take away protection of MSP

Mumbai is pride of Maharashtra, likening it to PoK is blasphemy: Congress

Mumbai is "pride" of Maharashtra and India and to demean thecity by likening it to Pakistan occupied Kashmir (PoK) is "blasphemy", All India Congress Committee (AICC) secretary Ashish Dua said on Monday without naming actress Kangana Ranaut. Taking to Twitter a day after Ranaut met Maharashtra Governor Bhagat Singh Koshyari at Raj Bhavan here over partial razing of her office by the Mumbai civic body, Dua also said the governor's office is "not for politics". "#Mumbai is pride of #Maharashtra & entire India. This is a city which has realised dreams of millions without prejudice or discrimination. To demean it by comparing with PoK is blasphemy. Guv office is not for politics," Dua tweeted. He said the BJP should refrain from "dividing citizens on the basis of region". Ranaut had said that she met Koshyari to apprise him about "injustice" done to her. The Congress is one of the ruling constituents of the Shiv Sena-led Maha Vikas Aghahdi (MVA) dispensation; the other

Congress to take up issues such as Covid-19, NEP, NEET in TN assembly

NEET, NEP and the state's actions in containing the pandemic are among the issues set to be raised by Congress in the 3-day session of the Tamil Nadu Assembly

If Cong led by Rahul comes to power, it would cancel NEET: Puducherry CM

Puducherry Chief Minister V Narayanasamy said that if Congress regime led by Rahul Gandhi comes to power in the Centre then the party would cancel NEET

Karnataka government 'failed' to fight coronavirus pandemic: Congress

Karnataka is witnessing an alarming increase in the number of coronavirus cases as the state government has totally 'failed' to handle the pandemic crisis, working president of state Congress said

Monsoon wind blowing for govt, with many Opposition top guns missing

Congress' reduced strength in Upper House and absence of key critics should help Treasury bench push through contentious Bills

Covid-19 impact: No all-party meeting ahead of Parliament's monsoon session

Parliamentary Affairs Minister Pralhad Joshi will not be holding the meeting which is conferred before the commencement of parliamentary sessions

Cong expresses support for civil society members named in Delhi riots case

Congress on Saturday said these people are "greater deshbhakts (patriots) than the fraudulent ones in power now"

Process to elect next party president set in motion: Congress

The Congress on Saturday said that Sonia Gandhi has made organisational changes after authorisation from the party's working committee and has set in motion the process of election of the next party president by constituting an election authority. Asked about the organisational changes made by Gandhi and the subsequent reported statements by some leaders who had written to her over party reforms, Congress' chief spokesperson Randeep Surjewala said he had not seen a single statement by any Congress leader on the issue and cannot comment on that. On whether the organisational changes had Rahul Gandhi's imprint, he said Rahul Gandhi was unanimously elected in an AICC session, but post the 2019 verdict he chose to take moral responsibility and resigned. "Crores and crores of Congress workers and unanimously all leaders including the ones that you mentioned in the meeting of the CWC expressed complete confidence in the leadership of Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi and in fact some of them