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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.

MNS-Sena UBT bonhomie to extend to MVA? Raj Thackeray’s EC visit hints at thaw in ties with Congress

Purva Chitnis -
Opposite stands on north Indians makes it difficult for the MNS and the Congress to come together. Both parties say there are no discussions on an alliance.

Govt cannot go on bullying citizens: former IAS Kannan Gopinathan after joining Congress

Sanya Dhingra -
Decision to join politics was after a culmination of six years of introspection and deliberation, former civil servant from Kerala's Kottayam district says.

Ex-IAS officer Kannan Gopinathan, who resigned to protest scrapping of Article 370, joins Congress

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In his address after joining the Congress, Gopinathan criticised the BJP government & asserted that 'only Congress can take the country in the direction in which it should go'.

Now at Rahul Gandhi’s door, why nomadic SCs are opposing Siddaramaiah’s internal reservation formula

Sharan Poovanna -
Under internal reservation matrix, of 17% reservation for SCs, groups such as SC-Right & SC-Left given increased allocation of 6% each, and Category C, or ‘touchables’, given 5%.

Karti Chidambaram’s message to ally DMK on power-sharing—‘look at Chandrababu & Andhra Pradesh’

Prabhakar Tamilarasu -
In interview to ThePrint, Karti says DMK critical to INDIA bloc, but majority doesn’t mean you can’t accommodate allies in govt; adds Vijay’s TVK ‘still behaves like a fan club’.

‘Wholesale attack on democracy underway in India, corruption rampant,’ Rahul says in Colombia

Sourav Roy Barman -
At a session at a university, part of his South America trip, the LoP underscored need for India to focus on manufacturing, noting that China has used its strength to counter US tariffs.

Siddaramaiah junks Oppn prediction about Shivakumar taking over. ‘Will remain CM for next 2.5 yrs’

Sharan Poovanna -
Karnataka CM has denied existence of pact under which Siddaramaiah would have to hand over reins to Shivakumar at halfway mark of Congress govt’s five-year term.

Bargaining chip? Rahul’s phone call with Vijay stirs speculation amid strain in DMK-Congress ties

Sourav Roy Barman -
Congress MP from Tamil Nadu says more than the state unit, DMK would be curious about Rahul’s phone call with Vijay to express grief over loss of lives in Karur stampede.

From pre-Emergency to post-Lalu era, the story of Congress’s irreversible decline in Bihar

Sanya Dhingra -
Congress’s fall in Bihar was a long process that began well before Emergency & Lalu’s political dominance, including caste realignments & rising regional forces.

Congress in Kerala sees ground shifting as Nair Service Society endorses LDF’s stand on Sabarimala

Aneesa PA -
Opposition calls it issue-based support, analysts say one decision not enough to move the electorally significant Nair Service Society towards the LDF.
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