Lok Sabha Polls 2024: Congress CEC to decide candidates on March 7, says Jairam Ramesh
The first meeting of Congress party's Central Election Committee(CEC) will be held at 6 pm on March 7, Thursday.
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‘Rahul Gandhi, Sonia Gandhi sit with me…’: Punjab CM Bhagwant Mann takes a swipe at Congress
Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann on Monday lashed out at the Congress party during the Assembly session. Firstly, CM Mann presented a lock to the Punjab Assembly Speaker Kultar Singh Sandhwan and asked him to use it to make sure opposition members didn’t walk out of the House during a discussion on the Governor's address.
Lok Sabha Polls 2024: BJP delays announcement of candidate for Congress- stronghold Raebareli. What to expect
Despite the Bharatiya Janata Party () revealing its list of 195 contestants, with 51 nominees designated for Uttar Pradesh's constituencies in the 2024 Lok Sabha elections, the suspense lingers over the candidate selection for .
In UP, it’s Hema Malini from Mathura, Balyan from Muzaffarnagar again
The BJP on Saturday announced candidates for 51 of the 80 Lok Sabha seats in Uttar Pradesh, leaving 27 seats the party had contested in 2019 of which it had won 19. BJP ally Apna Dal (Sonelal) had contested the remaining two seats — Mirzapur and Robertsganj — and won both.
Neerja Chowdhury writes | RS poll debacle in Himachal to Sonia’s UP exit: Harsh light shines on a Congress in crisis
The Rajya Sabha elections have stirred a political commotion and not only because of cross-voting, as has often taken place in the past. The BJP is out to get every seat it can but this time, its defeat of the official Congress candidate in Himachal Pradesh and a Samajwadi Party (SP) nominee in Uttar Pradesh are being viewed as attempts to demoralise an already downhearted Opposition on the eve of the Lok Sabha polls.
Himachal Pradesh Congress crisis: Six rebel MLAs challenge their disqualification in high court
Himachal Pradesh Congress crisis: The six rebel Congress MLAs, who were disqualified from the state Assembly for cross-voting in Rajya Sabha elections challenged the decision in Himachal Pradesh high court on Friday. The cross-voting created a political crisis in the state with the ruling Congress taking some immediate steps to save its government in Himachal Pradesh.
Cong 17 seats in UP deal: Why even SP help may not take party far, going by 2019
The extended saga of the Opposition INDIA bloc’s seat-sharing talks in Uttar Pradesh, that saw the Rashtriya Lok Dal (RLD) switch sides to the NDA and senior partner Samajwadi Party (SP) announce its candidates before its seat-sharing deal with the Congress was concluded, was finally sealed last week.
As ‘UP ke ladke’ Rahul and Akhilesh reunite, a look back at their 2017 partnership that failed
Seven years after they joined forces, “UP ke ladke (boys of UP)” Akhilesh Yadav and Rahul Gandhi reunited again in Agra on Sunday during the Congress’s Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra. Flanked by Rahul and Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, the presence of Samajwadi Party (SP) president at the event brought back memories of 2017 when they campaigned from an improvised vehicle, the Uttar Pradesh Vijay Rath, for the Assembly polls.