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The Chief Minister unfurled the BRS flag at 12.37 pm as per the muhurtham and assumed his chair in the party office on the first floor, located at Sardar Patel Marg, a prime location in the national capital. (Image: Twitter/@BRSparty)

DC Edit | Fuse BRS into larger narrative

The party is seen as being friendly with a few leaders, including the Kumaraswamy-led JD(S) in K'taka and the Akhilesh Yadav-led SP in UP

16 Dec 2022 12:10 AM

Delhi Chief Minister and AAP convener Arvind Kejriwal with Punjab CM Bhagwant Mann, Delhi Deputy CM Manish Sisodia, Delhi Environment Minister Gopal Rai and other leaders during celebrations after AAP crossed the majority mark in the MCD polls, at the party headquarters in New Delhi. (Photo: PTI)

Nilanjan Mukhopadhyay | Amid BJP triumph, can AAP be a force in 2024?

The future direction of politics also depends on the performance of Cong govt in HP and coordination between the MCD and the Delhi govt

15 Dec 2022 12:05 AM

Congress workers celebrates the party's victory in Himachal Pradesh Assembly elections, in Kullu, Thursday, Dec. 8, 2022. (Photo: PTI)

AA Edit | Himalayan win for Congress

The party seems to have cashed in on governance and policy issues that have largely contributed to voter disenchantment with BJP rule

09 Dec 2022 12:15 AM

Congress party president Mallikarjun Kharge. (Photo: PTI)

AA Edit | Kharge must crack the whip

Accountability is a cornerstone virtue and a test of fairness of any organisation or system; and the Congress party has been found wanting

06 Dec 2022 12:15 AM

It shows the way that the wind is blowing. When the Lok Sabha polls are just 16 months away, the importance is bound to be much more. (Representational Image/AP)

Sunil Gatade | Civic polls in Delhi almost like battle of a ‘mini-India’

Delhi is known as a “mini-India”. A vote here therefore has much significance

30 Nov 2022 12:05 AM

Mr Gehlot’s claims that Sachin Pilot tried to undermine his government at the behest of the BJP and that money changed hands in the process are of a very serious nature. (DC Image)

AA Edit | Kharge must halt Rajasthan drift

The latest allegations, coming from none other than CM Ashok Gehlot, raise legal, moral and ethical issues that need to be addressed

26 Nov 2022 12:15 AM

File photo of Congress leaders Rahul Gandhi, Shashi Tharoor and others during the 'Bharat Jodo Yatra' in Kerala. (PTI Photo)

Shikha Mukerjee | After Bharat Jodo, time for ‘Vote Jodo’ by Opp.

It is the responsibility of the Congress to make sure that the yatra is not a politically futile effort

17 Nov 2022 12:05 AM

AA Edit | Horse-trading MPs, MLAs is a serious breach of democracy

Using illicit money to unlawfully purchase MLAs or MPs, or with other allurements, is a big danger to democracy

02 Nov 2022 12:10 AM

Anita Katyal | A hockey player’s ‘teen patti’ fix; in Gujarat, Cong on the back foot

The manner in which the AAP is doling out cash on hoardings, banners, ads and running its high-profile campaign in Guj has stumped everyone

30 Oct 2022 12:00 AM

New Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge assumes charge at AICC Headquarters, in New Delhi, Wednesday, Oct 26, 2022. Former party president Sonia Gandhi, Rajasthan CM Ashok Gehlot and party MP Rahul Gandhi are also seen. (PTI Photo/Manvender Vashist Lav)

Kharge takes charge; all of CWC, AICC general secretarys quit

Soon after the resignation of the CWC members, the new president constituted a steering committee till the time a new CWC is constituted

27 Oct 2022 6:59 AM

AA Edit | Identity is no bar: Every Indian can aim to be PM

India has had, during its history, Presidents and Vice-Presidents elected, who were from religious minorities and oppressed castes

27 Oct 2022 12:10 AM

Congress leader Sonia Gandhi greeting newly elected party president Mallikarjun Kharge in New Delhi. (AP)

Shikha Mukerjee | Cong’s Kharge era: Can he & Gandhis make it work?

Among the immediate and urgent challenges facing the Congress and its new non-Gandhi president are the Assembly elections in Gujarat and HP

22 Oct 2022 12:00 AM

The “loyalist” approach attributes to the Gandhis strange magical powers -- bordering on magical realism -- that inhibit the independent working of the Congress. (Representational Image/DC)

Anand K. Sahay | ‘Loyalists’ and Congress: Will polls change party?

Whatever the party’s many failings, it is hard to see the Congress as a straitjacketed Stalinist outfit in which free speech is frowned upon

13 Oct 2022 12:00 AM

Rajasthan watchers had seen long ago that Mr Pilot, while attempting to overthrow Mr Gehlot as CM, had virtually crossed over to the BJP side. (Photo: PTI)

Sunil Gatade | Dilemma for Congress in Raj: To axe or not to axe

A decision on the leadership issue in Rajasthan is like resolving the Gordian knot

10 Oct 2022 12:05 AM

Saeed Naqvi | RSS’ Bhagwat and Muslims: Recalling Bhaurao Deoras’ interview in 1990

Muslims, traditionally a Congress vote bank, began to feel uncomfortable with the Congress. There was a reason

10 Oct 2022 12:00 AM

MP Shashi Tharoor with former chief minister of Madhya Pradesh. (Photo: Twitter)

Anita Katyal | Cong prez polls: Diggy & Shashi got played, Selja scare for Hooda

Once it became clear that Raj CM Ashok Gehlot was not in the fray for the election of the next Cong prez, a host of names did the rounds

02 Oct 2022 12:00 AM

Despite the much-hyped claim about maintaining “neutrality”, the party high command — meaning the Gandhi family — is clearly backing Kharge. (Photo: PTI)

Cong chief poll: Gandhis-backed Kharge vs rebel Tharoor

A majority of senior party leaders, including some G-23 members, have rallied around Kharge

30 Sep 2022 9:45 PM

The Rajasthan crisis, one more in the series, substantiates that the leadership is dangerously irresponsible. (Photo: PTI)

Shikha Mukerjee | ‘Our time will come…’ But Cong doesn’t know when!

The leaders are so wrapped up in themselves that they are disdainful of reality

30 Sep 2022 12:00 AM

Rajasthan Chief Minister and senior Congress leader Ashok Gehlot interacts with party leader Pawan Bansal as he leaves after meeting Congress interim President Sonia Gandhi. (Photo: PTI)

AA Edit | Comedy of errors hits Congress in Rajasthan

The errors started from the very choice of Rajasthan chief minister Ashok Gehlot as AICC president

28 Sep 2022 12:05 AM

Kanyakumari: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi addresses the launch of 'Bharat Jodo Yatra', in Kanyakumari, Wednesday, Sept. 7, 2022. (Photo: PTI)

AA Edit | Will Rahul’s yatra help Congress reinvent itself?

It looks as if the problem is not with party rank and file, but with the leadership which seems to have no plan to present before people

08 Sep 2022 12:05 AM

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