Senior Congress leader Pradip Bhattacharya on Monday said that the party is paying the price for expelling state Chief Minister and Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee in West Bengal. Addressing the press, the veteran Congress leader said the then Congress state president Somen Mitra had expelled Banerjee in 1997 following instructions from the then party chief Sitaram Kesri due to …
At a four-hour-long meeting, the Congress top body re-affirmed its faith in Sonia Gandhi’s leadership despite the drubbing the party suffered in the five-state Assembly elections They lost the recently-held five-state Assembly elections — suffering a heavy loss in Uttar Pradesh, managing to win only two seats in the 403-member Assembly — but it’s status quo for the Congress. The …
Speculation is rife over 'G 23' Congress dissenters getting an audience with party's interim chief Sonia Gandhi. For Sonia, who holds a distinction of being the longest-serving All India Congress Committee chief in the 136-year history of the Congress, the meeting may see history repeat itself like in 1996 and then 1998 when two serving Congress presidents, first PV Narasimha …
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