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After recording a much improved performance in the recently concluded Lok Sabha elections compared to 2019, the Congress is set to begin a series of strategy meetings within the party to prepare for the Assembly elections scheduled for the latter half of the year in Jharkhand, Maharashtra, Haryana and Jammu and Kashmir.
With the Lok Sabha election results signalling a resurgent Opposition INDIA bloc, the raging row over alleged irregularities in the NEET-UG examination and the now-cancelled UGC-NET examination have become the first major issue of conflict between the new BJP-led NDA government and the Opposition alliance. This is set to make stormy the first session of the 18th Lok Sabha beginning June 24.
With the new Lok Sabha set to choose a Speaker on June 26, the ruling and Opposition coalitions are trying to reach a consensus on the post of the presiding officer.
Congress chief Mallikarjun Kharge attended the oath-taking ceremony of Narendra Modi on Sunday, dubbing it his "constitutional duty." The Leader of Opposition in the Rajya Sabha also broached the possibility of congratulating the BJP leader if the two met during the event.
A day after the Congress’s INDIA ally in Rajasthan, Hanuman Beniwal, the Rashtriya Loktantrik Party (RLP) chief, expressed unhappiness over being ignored for the Opposition bloc’s meetings in Delhi, the Congress said on Saturday that “everything is fine” in the alliance.
Congress leader Sonia Gandhi was unanimously elected as the chairperson of the Congress Parliamentary Party on Saturday. The development came mere hours after the Congress Working Committee passed an resolution seeking the appointment of Rahul Gandhi as Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha. The Lok Sabha has incidentally functioned without a Leader of Opposition since 2014 as no party managed to secure the requisite seats to assume the role.
Getting around 45 per cent of the votes counted till noon Tuesday, the Congress in Karnataka looks to be on track to significantly improve their vote share compared to the 2019 Lok Sabha election, in which they registered just 32 per cent.
Shortly before exit polls predicted the return of the BJP-led NDA, top leaders of the opposition INDIA bloc met here Saturday and put up a brave front claiming that they would cross the halfway mark.