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Karnataka Congress leader Veerappa Moily tested positive for Covid-19 on Thursday after attending the Mekedatu march. Earlier, a day after Karnataka Congress chief DK Shivakumar refused to take Covid test, two Congress leaders had tested positive for Covid. Former minister HM Revanna and MLC CM Ibrahim have tested positive after attending the first day of 10-day long march demanding construction …

Senior Congress leader M Veerappa Moily on Sunday said some leaders ”misused” the G-23 and asserted that if anyone persists with its institutionalisation it would be for ”vested interest” as reform of the party was already underway under Sonia Gandhi. The former Union minister also voiced strong support for poll strategist Prashant Kishor’s induction into the Congress and said those …

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Bengaluru: Jitin Prasada’s exit from the Congress has raised questions yet again on the party’s power to retain young leaders. While calling for a ‘major surgery’ in the party under Sonia Gandhi’s leadership, Moily tells CNN-News18 that “casteist” leaders like Jitin should have been sacked long ago. Party has been strengthened by the family of Nehru but, at same time, …

Bengaluru: Distancing himself from the Jammu meet of G-23 leaders, senior Congress leader M Veerappa Moily on Monday virtually expressed concern over internal differences in the party spilling out into the open, and backed Rahul Gandhi’s return as President of the outfit. The former union minister was one of the groups of 23 leaders who wrote to the interim President …

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Distancing himself from the Jammu meet of G-23 leaders, senior Congress leader M. Veerappa Moily on March 1 virtually expressed concern over internal differences in the party spilling out into the open, and backed Rahul Gandhi’s return as president of the outfit. Referring to the rally on Saturday at Jammu by some of the ‘G-23’ leaders ostensibly to felicitate Ghulam …