Milind Deora replaces Sanjay Nirupam as Mumbai Congress chief
March 25, 2019 20:38 ISTNirupam had been at loggerheads with senior party leaders in the state and the move has come as a bid to quell the intense infighting within the Mumbai Congress.
Nirupam had been at loggerheads with senior party leaders in the state and the move has come as a bid to quell the intense infighting within the Mumbai Congress.
"We represented to the EC that there is a film being made on Narendra Modi, to be launched just a few days before election, it's purpose is political," Sibal told media after meeting the EC panel.
In a big bang election promise, Congress president Rahul Gandhi on Monday announced Nyunitam Aay Yojana or minimum income scheme. Here's what it means.
When asked if he would merge his Jan Adhikar Party with the Congress, Yadav said ideology surpasses everything.
Dynastic parties have one major drawback. If the current generation of the party is competent, charismatic and enjoys popular confidence, the dynast can pull-off major victories. There is an incentive in the party to rally behind him.
"Do not vote for liars like the BJP and the Congress who made false promises on granting full statehood to the national capital," Kejriwal said.
The last day for filing nominations is Monday.
The Congress on Sunday released its ninth list of 10 candidates for the Lok Sabha election, fielding former finance minister P Chidambaram's son, Karti Chidambaram, from Sivaganga in Tamil Nadu.
The 15-year power drought ended for the Congress in Madhya Pradesh last year but the state has 14 parliamentary constituencies which the party is yet to win in the last a decade and a half.
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Choudhary, who wants to contest the Lok Sabha elections from Mathura against Hema Malini of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), met Congress General Secretary Jyotiraditya Scindia before joining the party.
The Congress party has come out with its eighth list of 38 candidates for the April-May parliamentary polls with its leader in Lok Sabha Mallikarjun Kharge being renominated from Gulbarga in Karnataka.
Addressing a press conference, Maharashtra Congress chief Ashok Chavan and senior Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) leader Ajit Pawar said 56 parties and organisations have come together to support the alliance to take on the BJP-Shiv Sena combine.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi Saturday dubbed as "reprehensible" efforts of regional parties to form a grand alliance with the Congress, saying socialist ideologue Ram Manohar Lohia would be "horrified" as most of these parties claim to be his followers.
The Congress party on Friday came out with its seventh list of 35 candidates for the upcoming Lok Sabha elections. The list had Uttar Pradesh state unit chief Raj Babbar's name from Fatehpur Sikri instead of the earlier announced Moradabad.
Addressing reporters, Congress Spokesperson Randeep Singh Surjewala demanded to know who the "beneficiaries" of the money paid by Yeddyurappa were, saying, "It is a fit case to be investigated by the newly constituted Lokpal."
The Grand Alliance on Friday announced a seat sharing pact in Bihar under which the RJD will contest 20 of the 40 Lok Sabha seats and the Congress 9 while smaller parties will be in contention in the remaining constituencies.
There is no other goal (in entering into an alliance with the Congress)," Abdullah told reporters here while kickstarting campaigning of the joint candidates.
In a sharp attack, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday accused the opposition of insulting defence forces and being the "natural habitat of terror apologists and questioners" of the country's armed forces.
In a Facebook post, Gandhi tagged a media report about 10,000 watchmen protesting against poor wages.
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