Rahul Gandhi remembered his father as a patriot and a visionary whose far-sighted policies helped build India
Speaking to reporters here, Yediyurappa said after the expansion, a cabinet meeting will be held
He also said the revival of the Congress largely depended on the weakening of regional parties that lack ideology, and claimed that the country was headed for "bipolar politics"
The announcement was made after Congress Working Committee met on Saturday
Leaders like Jyotiraditya Scindia, R P N Singh, Avinash Pande, and some others told the CWC that the public mood was in favour of the govt's move
Jaiveer Shergill supported the abrogation of the provisions of Article 370 while criticising the BJP for how it was done
The party had said last week that the Congress Working Committee will meet after the current session of Parliament that ends next Wednesday
Reddy was an exceptional parliamentarian, an efficient minister and widely acknowledged for his integrity and practice of clean politics
According to party insiders, Rahul is of the view, which a close aide has espoused, that the party needs to "burn down to ashes" before it can rise again to reclaim its lost glory
It was perhaps the first time the Gandhi scion was witnessed in full action outside Rae Bareli and Amethi, and beyond the social media landscape of Twitter
Reddy's limited physical mobility due to polio never deterred him from achieving political heights and he served as a Lok Sabha MP for five terms
During the UPA-1 government, he held portfolios like urban development and culture
The Congress along with other opposition parties demanded that Prime Minister Narendra Modi should clarify whether there has been a shift in India's position of no third party involvement in the Kashmir issue after US President Donald Trump offered to mediate between India and Pakistan on the matter. Trump's offer to mediate on the Kashmir issue came as he met Prime Minister Imran Khan at the White House where the two leaders discussed a host of issues. India denied Trump's claim that Modi had asked him to mediate in resolving the Kashmir issue with Pakistan. External Affairs Ministry Spokesperson Raveesh Kumar tweeted, "We have seen @POTUS's remarks to the press that he is ready to mediate, if requested by India & Pakistan, on Kashmir issue. No such request has been made by PM @narendramodi to US President." Congress' chief spokesperson Randeep Surjewala said India has never accepted third party mediation in Jammu and Kashmir. "To ask a foreign power to mediate in J&K by PM ..
She was the CM of Delhi from 1998 till 2013 when Congress was ousted from power in Delhi by Arvind Kejriwal led AAP
The brother and sister are keen, not just to put up a fight against the BJP, but also challenge the old guard currently led by senior leader Ahmed Patel in their party
Forget finding a president with pan-India appeal, soon the party may not even have state level leaders of any consequence
Neither Rahul, nor his sister Priyanka Gandhi have shown a political temperament. The party's vote share remained virtually stagnant between 2014 and 2019. Now it stares at a possible decline
It's possible that India has space for just one national idea: Once it was the Congress' fuzzy, syncretic inclusiveness; now it is Modi's Hindu nationalism
He is the organic link between the Sonia Congress and the Rahul Congress