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2 weeks ago | 
ndtv.com | Sunil Prabhu |Debanish Achom
Election Commission sources questioned the absence of formal communication from Rahul Gandhi New Delhi: Congress MP Rahul Gandhi has not written any letter to the Election Commission of India (ECI) or sought any time for a meeting even 24 hours after he raised allegations of "rigging" in the assembly election held in November last year, ECI sources said today.
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1 month ago | 
ndtv.com | Sunil Prabhu |Saikat Bose
Gaurav Gogoi slammed Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma's remarks Guwahati: Congress leader Gaurav Gogoi, the newly appointed president of Assam Congress, has said that Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma's allegations of Pakistan links are part of a "C-grade Bollywood cinema" that is "going to flop badly". Mr Sarma has alleged that Mr Gogoi visited Pakistan on the "invitation" of the country's notorious spy agency Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI).
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2 months ago | 
ndtv.com | Sunil Prabhu |Saikat Bose
Congress chief Mallikarjun Kharge's letter to PM comes amid rising tension between India and Pakistan New Delhi: Mallikarjun Kharge, Congress president and Leader of the Opposition in Rajya Sabha, has written to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, seeking a special Parliament session to deal with the situation created by the Pahalgam terror attack that claimed the lives of 35 tourists and a Kashmiri on April 22.
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2 months ago | 
ndtv.com | Sunil Prabhu |Saikat Bose
Kapil Sibal has responded to the remarks made by Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar New Delhi: Kapil Sibal, Senior Advocate and Rajya Sabha MP, has countered Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar's "Parliament is supreme" remark, saying neither Parliament nor the Executive is supreme. Mr Sibal, also the president of the Supreme Court Bar Association, has said on X, "The law: Neither Parliament nor the Executive is supreme. The Constitution is supreme.
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Mar 19, 2025 | 
ndtv.com | Sunil Prabhu |Anindita Sanyal
Shashi Tharoor has reaffirmed his stand when asked about the comment. New Delhi: Senior Congress leader and former diplomat Shashi Tharoor's "egg on my face" comment acknowledging Prime Minister Narendra Modi's diplomatic stance on the Russia-Ukraine hostilities, has brought much delight to the BJP camp. The Congress, which had just weathered a huge row over his praise of Kerala's LDF government, is on silent mode. "Better late than never...
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Mar 18, 2025 | 
ndtv.com | Tim P. Seifert |Ashwine Kumar Singh |Sunil Prabhu |Anindita Sanyal
New Delhi: The Election Commission held a meeting today to finalise its decision to link Voter ID cards with Aadhaar. The commission's move, the Congress claimed, was a fallout of its complaints about a mismatch of electoral rolls in Maharashtra between the Lok Sabha and assembly polls. The Congress has now warned that the Commission should ensure that the right to vote of a single eligible citizen not be denied and at the same time, there should be no breach of privacy of any citizen.
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Mar 2, 2025 | 
ndtv.com | Akhilesh Sharma |Sunil Prabhu |Saikat Bose
Mamata Banerjee accused BJP of tampering with voter rolls with poll body's blessings New Delhi: A duplication in EPIC numbers on voter ID cards does not imply fake voters, the Election Commission clarified today. The poll body attributed this duplication to decentralised, manual mechanism that was followed before the voters' database was shifted to a digital platform. The commission, however, said these cases of duplication would be rectified by allowing unique EPIC numbers to all voters.
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Feb 27, 2025 | 
ndtv.com | Sunil Prabhu |Anindita Sanyal
Asked about factionalism in the party Gaurav Gogoi said it was just a "perception". New Delhi: The Congress is likely to go without a Chief Ministerial face in next year's assembly election in Assam and the party held a meeting today to discuss the situation there. The party's senior leader from the state Gaurav Gogoi -- who is also Leader of the Opposition Rahul Gandhi's Deputy in the Lok Sabha -- told NDTV today that the "people of Assam" will be the party's face in the coming election.
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Feb 25, 2025 | 
ndtv.com | Sunil Prabhu |Anindita Sanyal
New Delhi: The Congress in Kerala - back in the news again over its row with senior leader Shashi Tharoor - has started damage control measures, starting with a meeting. Senior leaders of the party are expected to meet on Friday. While the agenda is the state election, the row over Mr Tharoor and the importance of speaking in one voice will definitely feature, sources indicated. Sources said the Kerala Congress leaders have consciously decided not to respond to Mr Tharoor or his remarks.
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Feb 10, 2025 | 
ndtv.com | PM Narendra Modi |Sunil Prabhu |Anindita Sanyal
New Delhi: The Congress role in the defeat of Aam Aadmi Party in the recently concluded Delhi Assembly election is ballooning before the Opposition bloc INDIA, which Telangana Chief Minister Revanth Reddy described today as "fractured". After INDIA ally and Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah's "Aur lado apas mein (keep fighting among yourselves)" jibe, Uddhav Thackeray's Shiv Sena has pointed fingers at the Congress and AAP for the Delhi defeat.
