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NCP hints it may go solo in next polls

Edit DNA India 14 Jun 2016
Meanwhile, former Congress chief ministers Ashok Chavan and Prithviraj Chavan have expressed their displeasure over the NCP stand. After the poor performance by Congress in the preceding five state assembly elections, the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) has conveyed to its cadre to be prepared to go solo in the upcoming state elections. Senior NCP leader Praful Patel said the Congress support base was ebbing in each election....

BJP increases clout in Rajya Sabha but work is still half done for them

Edit DNA India 14 Jun 2016
With the BJP narrowing the gap with the Congress in the Rajya Sabha after the elections to 27 seats, the ruling party must seize the initiative to pilot more legislation through the Upper House ... On key legislation like the GST and land acquisition bills, the Congress has played spoiler, while most of the regional parties have been hesitant to isolate the Congress despite its obstructionism in the House....

Haryana Rajya Sabha polls ‘rigged’, Congress seeks repoll

Edit Indian Express 14 Jun 2016
The Congress Monday approached the Election Commission seeking countermanding elections to two Rajya Sabha seats in Haryana and holding fresh polls, arguing that there was a “deep rooted conspiracy” hatched by the state’s BJP government to “hijack and rig” the polls to ensure that the votes of Congress MLAs were rejected on the ground that they had cast their votes with a different pen ... Congress smells conspiracy in Haryana setback....

Kamal Nath’s appointment ultimate insult to Sikhs: Badal

Edit The Hindu 14 Jun 2016
The Aam Aadmi Party and The Shiromani Akali Dal on Monday tore into Congress for appointing Kamal Nath as the party’s general secretary in-charge of Punjab with Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal terming it as “the ultimate insult to Sikhs” ... Hitting out at Congress, H ... “All that Congress cares is about the people having lots of money and muscle power,” he said....

Haryana: Congress moves EC demanding cancellation of RS polls

Edit Indian Express 14 Jun 2016
BJP supported candidate for Rajya Sabha, Zee Media Chairman Subhash Chandra and Indian National Lok Dal & Congress supported candidate for Rajya Sabha RK Anand, during polling in Chandigarh on Saturday ... The Congress leaders and Anand, a well known lawyer, claimed there was no “internal sabotage” that caused the defeat ... Big conspiracy in Congress loss in Haryana, says BS Hooda Rajya Sabha polls....

RS polls: Fear of another electoral loss united Cong

Edit The Times of India 14 Jun 2016
Prominent Congress leaders from the state were asked to bury the hatchet and stand united for ensuring the triumph of Supreme Court advocate Vivek Tankha who got elected to the Rajya Sabha on Saturday. Soon after the ruling BJP won Ghodadongri bypoll earlier this month, a meeting was called in New Delhi to discuss as to why the Congress was continuously losing every election in Madhya Pradesh for the last 12 years....

Kamal Nath’s Punjab poll job under 1984 riots cloud

Edit Indian Express 14 Jun 2016
It’s not just the Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) and the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), but there is considerable disquiet within Congress’s Punjab unit, too, over the party’s decision to appoint former Union minister Kamal Nath as its general secretary in charge of the state, sources told The Indian Express ... AAP Congress Reshuffle ... He was a minister at the Centre, general secretary of the Congress....

BJP’s ambitions grow in Tripura

Edit Indian Express 14 Jun 2016
Its ambitions in the Northeast lifted by the victory in Assam, the BJP has been targeting the ruling CPM of late in Tripura, with the Congress already seen as a dwindling force ... NE forey on,” BJP general secretary Ram Madhav tweeted last week, before his party went on to become the second largest in Imphal municipality with 10 seats to the Congress’s 12 ... Congress and BJP ... The BJP, for its part, dismissed the Congress....

Congress government will reflect aspirations of people, says PCC

Edit The Hindu 14 Jun 2016
The executive meeting of Pradesh Congress Committee (PCC) passed a resolution stating that the functioning of party and the government would reflect the wishes of the people ... Namassivayam said people of Puducherry gave the mandate for the Congress to form the government while they consigned the AINRC to the role of Opposition....

Why a sinking Congress could give Rahul Gandhi an excellent shot at revamp by dumping the whining old guard

Edit The Times of India 14 Jun 2016
Inevitable generational shifts have been happening in several parties and it is the turn of Congress to bid adieu to Sonia Gandhi's leadership. Unlike BJP or the Left, the Congress leadership will remain within the Gandhi family because there isn't a single leader who can challenge it to make a claim for the top post ... Sharad Pawar was the last Congress satrap who revolted and still returned to power as an equal partner....

Drugs the only business to flourish under Akalis: Rahul in Punjab

Edit Indian Express 14 Jun 2016
Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi in Jalandhar, Monday ... Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi Monday took on the Akali Dal-BJP combine for patronising drug business in the state while leading a protest against the menace in Jalandhar ... The Congress’s dharna was also to protest the deteriorating law and order situation in Punjab....

Exodus continues: Congress MP, MLA, 2 others to join TRS

Edit The Times of India 14 Jun 2016
In a major blow to Congress in Telangana on Monday, four of its members, MP from Nalgonda Gutha Sukhender Reddy , MLA from Miryalguda Bhaskar Rao, former MP G Vivekanand and former MLA G Vinod announced they would join Telangana Rashtra Samiti (TRS) on June 15 ... He thanked Congress for giving him ......

Uttam under pressure as defections irk Rahul Gandhi

Edit The Hindu 14 Jun 2016
The latest round of defections from the Congress party in Telangana has landed the Telangana Pradesh Congress Committee President N.Uttam Kumar Reddy and the Congress Legislature Party leader K.Jana Reddy under tremendous pressure ... All these leaders hail from Nalgonda to which the two top leaders of the Congress hail from ... a Congress MLA remarked....
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