Tag: Congress

Bhubaneswar: In poverty stricken part of Odisha, a whopping 46 per cent netas who are going to contest polls in first phase are crorepatis. The irony is phase-1 elections are going to take place in that part of Odisha, the undivided Koraput and Kalahandi district, which has the highest number of poor in the State […]

Nabarangpur: Two days after some videos purportedly showing Congress candidate from the Nabarangpur parliamentary constituency, Pradeep Majhi cozying up with an unidentified woman inside a hotel room went viral on social media, the Biju Mahila Janata Dal (BMJD) launched a massive protest in the district demanding strong action against Majhi for his alleged involvement in […]

New Delhi: In the early trends, the Congress is losing high stakes battle in the five states, but the real surprise is Kerala where the party is set to lose…

Bhubaneswar: Aska, the sugar town of Odisha and the second largest city in Ganjam district, had been once a bastion of communists. For which the ‘sweet’ hub has earned the epithet of ‘Red land’ in Ganjam district. Since the formation of the Lok Sabha constituency in 1971,  though communists had won the seat once, the […]

Kendrapara: With the filing of nominations on Monday by both Bijoy Mahapatra and Bed Prakash Agarwala, the fight in Patkura in 2019 elections will be between two old war horses. Bijoy, who dramatically rejoined BJP after resigning in a huff last year, today filed his nominations from Patkura Assembly Constituency as a BJP candidate. The […]

New Delhi: Congress President Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday termed the Bharatiya Janata Party manifesto as short sighted, terming it arrogant and reflecting voice of an isolated man. “The BJP manifesto was created in a closed room. The voice of an isolated man, it is short sighted and arrogant,” Gandhi tweeted. The Congress manifesto was created […]

Bhubaneswar: The old adage ‘the more things change the more they remain the same,’ seems quite applicable in the case of Congress in Odisha. The appointment of veteran, Niranjan  Patnaik as the Pradesh Congress Committee (PCC)  president before the announcement of elections was supposed to rejuvenate the party in the state. The move had enthused […]

Bhubaneswar: Rising dissidence within the Odisha Congress is not only putting it in a continuous disarray but has also dealt a huge setback to the party as Mahila Pradesh Congress president Sumitra Jena today resigned from the primary membership of the party and quit her post citing indifference with the State party leadership. Coming down […]

New Delhi: Calling Rafale fighter jet deal the biggest defence “corruption” since Independence, Congress President Rahul Gandhi has challenged Prime Minister Narendra Modi for an open debate on the issue. “Dear PM, scared of debating me on corruption? I can make it easier for you. Let’s go open book, so you can prepare,” Gandhi tweeted. […]

Gandhinagar: Launching a blistering attack on the Congress, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday charged it with looting the country, saying in five years of his government, he has brought the Congress to the doorstep of jail. “Give me another five years, and I will ensure they (Congress leaders) are in jail,” Modi said while […]

Rae Bareli: A day after her son and Congress President Rahul Gandhi filed his nomination from Amethi, UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi kicked-off her roadshow here before filing her nomination papers for the Lok Sabha elections. Sonia Gandhi, who left from the Bhuyemau guest house at around 11.45 a.m., first performed a ‘havan’ near the Mohan Singh […]

Rae Bareli: Congress President Rahul Gandhi on Thursday made it clear that he doesn’t attach much importance to Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s threats of putting Congress leaders behind bars if voted to power for the next five years. Modi is “not invincible” and it will become clear after the Lok Sabha elections, Gandhi told reporters […]

New Delhi: The Congress has claimed “grave” security threat to party chief Rahul Gandhi and urged Home Minister Rajnath Singh to take immediate action to ensure full protection of its leader. In a letter, three Congress leaders said that a laser was pointed at Rahul during his interaction with journalists after filing nomination for the Amethi […]

New Delhi: The Congress on Friday accused Union Minister Smriti Irani of furnishing “contradictory information” about her educational qualifications in the affidavits filed during various elections since 2004. The attack came a day after Irani, who is contesting against Congress President Rahul Gandhi from Amethi in Uttar Pradesh, declared in her affidavit that she was […]

Keonjhar: After completion of the first phase polls in Odisha, BJP President Amit Shah in his first poll address at Keonjhar in Odisha was more aggressive and gave a war cry to overthrow the ‘nikkama’ Naveen-led BJD government. Shah straightaway exhorted the huge gathering here to ‘elect’ Narendra Modi again and ‘vote out’ the Naveen […]