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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.

Ex-Congress leaders in Karnataka will now be vetted if they want ‘ghar wapsi’

Rohini Swamy -
New state Congress chief D.K. Shivakumar has set up a 12-member panel to vet those want to rejoin. Applications will be assessed on parameters such as why they left, what they've been doing since.

3 Gujarat Congress MLAs quit, BJP looks to ‘settle score’ over Ahmed Patel’s Rajya Sabha win

Shanker Arnimesh -
The resignations are a setback for Congress that has, since March, lost eight party MLAs, reducing its strength in the assembly to 65, against BJP’s 103.

CM Baghel failed on many fronts but Chhattisgarh BJP couldn’t take advantage: New chief

Prithviraj Singh -
In an interview to ThePrint after his appointment as Chhattisgarh BJP chief, Vishnu Deo Sai says the party will soon hold a campaign to highlight Baghel govt’s failures.

This is why Shivraj Chouhan is struggling to expand cabinet despite nod from BJP and RSS

Anup Dutta -
There’s been speculation of an imminent expansion in the Madhya Pradesh cabinet since May, but Chouhan is said to have dumped his plans twice.

Computer se andolan nahi hota: Congress on Shah and Gadkari’s ‘e-rallies’ in Bihar & MP

Fatima Khan -
The Congress says that the BJP decision to hold virtual rallies in poll-bound Bihar & MP, where bypolls are due, is an attempt to escape the anger on the ground. 

Priyanka Gandhi Vadra slams Centre over shutting of factories, loss of jobs

PTI -
The Congress leader called out the govt's hypocrisy, saying it was promising economic packages and employment, while in reality, factories were being shut.

States tackled Covid crisis on their own for 2 months, Modi govt should help now: Ashok Gehlot

Neelam Pandey -
At Off The Cuff, Rajasthan CM Ashok Gehlot said Modi govt made a 'blunder' by announcing lockdown with 4-hr notice, it failed to gauge problems of people, especially migrants.

Remember Vajpayee-Nehru episode? That is why Congress must let Modi off the hook on China

Yogendra Yadav -
PM Modi must be let off the hook, not because he deserves to but because not doing so would hurt all of us collectively. Think 1962.

Congress in talks with Prashant Kishor for upcoming bypolls in MP, says MLA PC Sharma

PTI -
Kishor also worked for the party in the previous Assembly election in MP. He would help the party in candidate selections and poll issues, Sharma added.

Congress can take leaf out of RSS-BJP book on cadres, market itself better: DK Shivakumar

Rohini Swamy -
D.K. Shivakumar, set to formally take over as Karnataka Congress chief, says RSS-BJP’s cadre-based training has helped them gain political advantage, promises to bring his party back to power.
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