NCW has asked UP Police for explanation after Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi was allegedly manhandled while on her way to Hathras to meet gang rape victim girl’s family. The National Commission for Women (NCW) has called the insensitive behaviour of law enforcement in Uttar Pradesh completely unacceptable. The incident took place on Saturday afternoon at ...

On Monday, Congress President, Sonia Gandhi, urged her party members, especially those in power, running the state governments, to bypass Centre’s recently passed farms laws. It is very much within the rights of state governments to apply or not apply a particular law in a respective state. She condemned the farms legislations as tyrannical, “anti-agricultural ...

The Rajya Sabha has passed three contentious Farm Bills that have been gravely protested by the Opposition parties in the Parliament. On 24 Sept, Congress launched a two-month nationwide protest against the ordinances. The party will collect signatures of 2 crore farmers and challenge the proposed bills.  Farmers Kisan Mazdoor Sangharsh Committee in Punjab has ...

On Monday, the Congress party announced to organize an all-India protest from 24 September against the passing of farm bills in Parliament after the party meeting.  Congress general secretary K.C. Venugopal stated that a meeting was called on the directions of president Sonia Gandhi and party member Rahul Gandhi to discuss the matter. The Congress ...

Amid ongoing farmers protests across several states over agriculture bills, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday lashed out at the Opposition for attempting to misguide the farmers on the legislation. While addressing a virtual meeting after the launch of a railway bridge project for poll-bound Bihar, PM Modi hailed the passage of two farm bills ...

The first day of Lok Sabha session opened with roaring calls against ruling government’s move to suspend Question Hour in the house, citing coronavirus pandemic as the reason. With the ongoing events including government’s means of controlling pandemic situation, vaccine development, trampling of labour rights, massive contraction of Indian economy and increasing border tensions with ...

On Sunday the Congress party announced seven committees for polls, though the Uttar Pradesh assembly elections are two years away. This is a clear message to the rivals in the key heartland state that the party is serious to upgrade their game and get an uphill improvement in electoral challenges it faces in the state. ...

After the Wall Street Journal report on hate speech on social media, there has been growing controversy over the BJP’s nexus with Facebook. On Monday, BJP MP Nishikant Dubey asks all NDA MPs in the House Panel to write to the Lok Sabha Speaker against I&T Committee Chairman Dr. Shashi Tharoor on summoning Facebook without ...

As former Rajasthan Deputy Chief Minister Sachin Pilot and his faction reunited with the Congress, party president Sonia Gandhi accepted his demand for the removal of Avinash Pande, the general secretary in charge of the state. Pandey has been replaced with Congress veteran Ajay Maken as the party’s general secretary in-charge of Rajasthan. On Sunday, ...

On the eve of the groundbreaking ceremony for the Ram temple in Ayodhya, several Congress leaders came out in open support while others chose to stay silent. The Ram temple in Ayodhya is the crowning achievement of the Modi government and BJP-RSS will continue to seek mileage from it for many elections to come. The ...