The Congress on Tuesday alleged there has been "a serious deficit" in the efforts of the BJP government in Manipur to contain "arson and violence" and sought a high-level inquiry commission headed by a serving or retired judge of the Supreme Court into the ethnic violence in the state. Photos: ANI/PTI
30 May,2023 03:55 PM IST | Editor
Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar met Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge and former party chief Rahul Gandhi here on Monday, the second such meeting in the last one and a half months amid efforts to strengthen Opposition unity to take on the BJP in the 2024 general elections. PTI Photo
22 May,2023 05:47 PM IST | Editor
Congress leaders including the party president Mallikarjun Kharge and Gandhi family on Sunday paid homage to the youngest Prime Minister of India, Rajiv Gandhi, on his death anniversary. Photo/ANI, PTI
21 May,2023 06:29 PM IST | Editor
Amid a race for the Karnataka chief minister's post, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday met party president Mallikarjun Kharge and is reported to have held discussions over government formation in the southern state. PTI Photo
16 May,2023 06:20 PM IST | Editor
In terms of seats and vote share, the victory of Congress in Karnataka assembly polls has set a record that has stood for more than 30 years. With a vote percentage of 42.88 percent, the party has won 135 seats, gaining 55 more than in 2018. The 1999 election, when it won 132 seats and earned a vote share of 40.84 percent, was the closest the Congress has ever come to today’s result. It received 43.76 per cent of the vote in 1989 and gained won seats. "This victory belongs to the people of the state," said Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge after the results. “People decided and chose. That is why we got 136 seats - huge after 36 years... It is a big victory...,” he said.
14 May,2023 06:05 PM IST | Editor
In photos
President Droupadi Murmu, PM Narendra Modi and other political leaders paid tribute to Dr BR Ambedkar on his 66th death anniversary today. Pic/PTI
06 December,2022 01:05 PM IST
Mallikarjun Kharge elected as the first Congress chief outside the Nehru-Gandhi family in 24 years, officially took charge as the party president at the All India Congress Committee headquarters in the national capital on Wednesday. Pic/PTI
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