Politics

Addressing party workers at the forecourt of the Congress headquarters in New Delhi, Gandhi said, “Once you set something on fire, it is very difficult to douse it. I have been trying to tell this to the BJP leaders. Today, the only one trying to douse th...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi greeted Jakhar with a handshake when the former greeted him with folded hands after taking oath.

As the town and all its public spaces are dominated by Thakors, the powerful OBC community in North Gujarat, Congress hopes to make gains here with Alpesh Thakor, the young OBC leader who formally joined Congress just ahead of the elections.

Gajadi villagers had announced a few months ago that they will refrain from voting. Their main grievance was about water supply.

Sibal-the-politician wanted to stymie the possibility of a Ram Temple in Ayodhya coinciding with the 2019 general elections. But Sibal-the-lawyer ignored the fact that such a move would not only open up a Pandora’s box in legal terms, but undermine his pa...

The Telugu actor-turned-politician took on BJP-TDP alliance in Vishakhapatnam, where he reached to extend support to striking employees of Dredging Corporation of India, who have been agitating against the privatization of the company.

Modi used Mani Shankar Aiyar's comments to appeal to Gujarati pride and urged the people of the state to show their resentment by voting for the BJP.

A senior Muslim Congress leader on Thursday wrote to party president Sonia Gandhi demanding that Kapil Sibal be sacked from the party for moving the Supreme Court seeking to defer the Ayodhya hearing.

The former Union minister, who has had frequent run-ins with the current BJP leadership, was detained on Monday evening while protesting outside the Akola district collector's office against the state government's "apathy" towards the farmers of Vidarbha.

The former Gujarat Chief Minister, who split from the Congress in July this year and formed the breakaway Jan Vikalp Morcha, has been conspicuous by his absence on the campaign trail. Some say Vaghela is a man scorned and one of his motives is to hurt the...

Kumar Vishwas by his own admission is a tad Right of the Centre. The poet became an activist during the Anna Hazare movement. He donned the political hat to contest against Rahul Gandhi from Amethi in 2014 Lok Sabha elections.

Asked about Rahul Gandhi's nomination for the party president's post, Nitish Kumar said: "The person to be elected for the top position in the Congress is predetermined. People may aspire to get a place in the lower rungs but can never assume the leadersh...

Lok Sabha MP P P Mohammed Faizal on Saturday said he would write to Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman in this regard.

The candidate was chosen after disagreement in the EPS-OPS camp on the candidate. However, Fisheries Minister D Jayakumar maintained that there was no rift in the party.

BJP's Saurashtra region spokesperson Raju Dhruv agreed partially, but claimed that many of these projects were at different stages of completion and therefore, the party needed another strong mandate to complete them.

The Congress said party vice-president Rahul Gandhi would demand answers for 22 years of BJP rule in Gujarat and the promises made to the people.