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Congress or the Indian National Congress (INC) is one of two major political parties in India. It was founded in 1885 and played a leading role in India’s Independence movement. It has ruled during most of India’s independent years and gave the country its first prime minister, Jawaharlal Nehru. Leadership of the Congress too has been dominated by the Nehru-Gandhi family.

The Congress is a center-left party, and lists on its website democracy, nationalism, secularism, inclusive growth and social justice as its core values. It last ruled India between 2004 and 2014, but has since lost its sway, being reduced to just 52 seats in the 2019 General Elections. INDIA, the alliance headed by Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge, was an attempt to bring together opposition parties against the BJP government for the 2024 Lok Sabha elections.

Together, the INDIA Alliance secured 238 of the 543 seats in the Lok Sabha. The Congress won 99 of these.

Congress mocks Smriti Irani’s return to TV. ‘Everyone returning to original professions’

Tina Das -
The official X account for Kerala Pradesh Congress Committee posted a cheeky reaction to Irani’s announcement, thanking Kishori Lal Sharma, who defeated Irani in Amethi.

Coalition pangs for Congress: Bihar & BMC polls a factor for Congress skipping Thackeray reunion

Purva Chitnis -
The party is treading cautiously ahead of the Bihar polls as it is wary of Raj Thackeray’s anti-migrant image and the impact on its Hindi heartland voter base.

Priyank Kharge questions ‘immature approach’ of ‘young BJP MP’ who ‘broke protocol’ to meet Trump

Sharan Poovanna -
Bengaluru: Adding grist to the rumour mill about a Bharatiya Janata Party MP breaking protocol to meet US president Donald Trump during a parliamentary delegation’s...

‘Humiliated’ by Siddaramaiah, senior police officer now has ministers persuading him to take back resignation

Sharan Poovanna -
Siddaramaiah was seen raising a hand at Dharwad ASP Narayana V. Baramani after the CM faced sloganeering and black flags at a public event 28 April. 

UP Congress president slams RSS over call to reconsider ‘socialist’ & ‘secular’ in Constitution Preamble

ANI -
Earlier, RSS General Secretary Dattatreya Hosabale had said that during the Emergency, the 2 terms were forcibly inserted into the Constitution, a move that needs to be reconsidered.

Two years of governance ‘paralysis’ in Karnataka as CM Siddaramaiah focuses on saving chair

Sharan Poovanna -
Siddaramaiah government faces questions over the State Education Policy, which is still pending, funds crunch, farmland acquisition & infighting, among other issues. 

Case against MP Cong chief Jitu Patwari for allegedly bribing villager to claim he was fed human excreta

ANI -
According to police, Gajraj Lodhi was taken to Patwari and bribed to allege that Mungaoli village sarpanch was feeding human excreta to him.

‘Mask comes off’ as RSS wants ‘Manusmriti’, says Rahul on call to drop ‘secular’ from Constitution

Sourav Roy Barman -
Congress slams Dattatreya Hosabale’s remarks as a 'deliberate assault on the soul of Constitution'. It will stand as an unbreakable wall against such attempts, the party asserts.

‘Never accepted Constitution,’ Cong slams RSS call to review ‘socialist’, ‘secular’ words in Preamble

PTI -
In a post on X, Congress alleged that the thinking of RSS-BJP was 'anti-constitutional' and that the RSS was conspiring to destroy Babasaheb Ambedkar's Constitution.

Congress, TMC oppose EC’s ‘special intensive revision’ of electoral rolls in poll-bound Bihar

Sourav Roy Barman -
Both parties object to the documentation process that people will have to go through to prove their eligibility to vote, and have termed it a 'devious, dangerous' idea.
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