Saubhadra Chatterji

The celebrations that have begun on August 15 and will last until August 15 next year will highlight the Congress’ history and its contribution to the Freedom Struggle in an attempt to counter the Bharatiya Janata Party’s narrative on nationalism

Bihar’s former deputy chief minister Sushil Modi has replaced Bhupendra Yadav as the chairman of the Personnel, Public Grievances and Law and Justice panel. The former has become the Union minister of environment and sciences and the labour minister in July this year.

Out of the 237 Rajya Sabha members nominated by Chairman Venkaiah Naidu for the 24 department-related standing committees for 2021-22, a total of 50 members of the Upper House also have been placed in new committees.

The highest executive body of the party is also likely to address some of the questions related to the political turmoil in its Punjab unit

With assembly elections in Uttar Pradesh due in less than six months, the Congress is expected to up the ante politically.

The plan to move the court was kept in abeyance as the party felt it was important for the Congress leaders to first reach Lakhimpur Kheri to step up pressure on Yogi Adityanath government

TMC MP Kakoli ghosh dastidar says families of deceased farmers want fresh autopsy.

On Tuesday, state police prevented Chhattisgarh chief minister Bhupesh Baghel from leaving the Lucknow airport, prompting the Congress leader to stage a dharna at the terminal.

Priyanka Gandhi Vadra and Punjab deputy chief minister Sukhjinder Randhawa were among the Congress leaders detained while trying to go to Lakhimpur Kheri

Senior TMC leaders have adopted a critical stand against the grand old party and publicly pitched Mamata Banerjee as the “only choice” to lead any non-BJP coalition

Jignesh Mevani and the Congress also avoided having the former as an associate member. Associate membership has no constitutional or legal value in the schedule. He announced he would fight the next poll on Congress ticket

A section feels that the party leadership might not yield to several demands made by Sidhu, whose abrupt resignation on Tuesday afternoon appeared to take the party by surprise.

Last Saturday, Gujarat MLA and Dalit leader Jignesh Mevani told a section of the media that he and Kumar will join the Congress party on September 28

The Congress now has 33 members in the Rajya Sabha, down from 56 in 2019. It has 52 MPs in the Lok Sabha

PM Modi, like many ministers, doesn’t have any stock market exposure and his investments continue to be in the form of National Savings Certificate ( ₹8.9 lakh), life insurance policies ( ₹1.5 lakh) and L&T infrastructure bonds, which he bought in 2012 for ₹20,000

The meeting went for an hour and Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra also joined the meeting at Rahul’s residential office at Tughlaq Lane.

Secretariat data shows 92 BJP members of the Upper House had an average attendance of 56.56% while those of the Congress (38 MPs) had 41.86%.

Speaker Om Birla’s office wants to know how many meetings were held by both department-related standing committees and other panels “and the number of sittings attended by each member”.

Incidentally, the meeting — the first exclusive between the two leaders this year — was held a day before Captain Amarinder Singh was asked to resign as Punjab chief minister by the Congress high command

Two senior leaders told HT that while the high command took the final call that the Congress government in Punjab required an urgent reshuffle at the top, the leadership was also clear that it should preferably be someone other than state party chief Navjot Singh Sidhu.

Called the Covid-19 dashboard and managed by the Panchayati Raj ministry, the portal has data of the over 2.5 lakh panchayats that India has and shows that 45% of them have set up health and sanitation committees.

The Congress, Rashtriya Janata Dal and Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam earlier declined to join the panel, blaming the government and the Bharatiya Janata Party for the Parliament ruckus on August 11.

“I did ask him about the speculations. And after our conversation, I want to condemn these ongoing speculations. He is the youngest member of our national executive and as asset for the party,” Raja told HT

Arpita Ghosh is not an exception. Over the past few years, Trinamool, the second-largest party in Parliament, has seen several leaders being moved from the Rajya Sabha even as it remains a key Opposition powerhouse

Congress leader Oscar Fernandes, a Rajya sabha member, who died on Monday at the age of 80 in Mangaluru from age-related illnesses, was a diligent backroom man.

Fernandes was a diligent backroom man. Someone who would work daily for 16-17 hours in the background to help the party get battle-ready. Senior Congress leader BK Hariprasad remembers, “When he was working in the party, the AICC office wouldn’t close before 3am

On the last day of the monsoon session, chaos erupted in the Rajya Sabha as Opposition MPs protested against the government’s push for the general insurance amendment bill, which, according to many Opposition leaders, would pave the road for privatisation of public insurance firms.

The plan to set up Sansad TV was proposed by an expert committee headed by Prasar Bharati CEO Surya Prakash in 2019. It was aimed at cutting costs, streamlining channel management and rejigging content to make it attractive for viewers and advertisers

Om Birla’s observations come after Vice President and Rajya Sabha chairman Venkaiah Naidu on Tuesday proposed naming and shaming of disruptive MPs even as he called on the 5,000-odd lawmakers in India to adhere to House norms.