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.
Low standards have become normal standards since 2014, thanks to Mr Modi. My first shock was, after becoming the PM, Mr Modi participated in an elaborated Ganga Arti. I thought that was odd for the PM of a secular country. Then, I saw him canvassing for BJP candidates even in state elections. I thought it was odd for the PM of a country. Then I saw that he does nothing else but campaign for the BJP, and funding for the BJP, and for friends of the BJP!!!! I thought it was odd for the PM of the country. Then lynchings of the Muslims came, and roaming cows came, and Rafale and Ranjan Gogoi, and NRC and CAA and the works. DECADENCE OF EVERY TYPE IS THE NEW NORM UNDER MR MODI. I don’t know what “standards” you guys are fretting about. You guys at THE PRINT are domiciled on the moon or what?
About the hanging of the rapists of Nirbhaya , death penalty should be abolished from indian statute books .Everybody , everybody ought to be given a second chance .
Has anybody except ThePrint claimed that hanging of 16 Dec rapists will lower crimes against women?
Without taking sides, one will have to say that the people’s choice is being overridden by political manoeuvres, supported by vast sums of money and other positive and negative inducements. The incentive to provide good governance gets diminished when a formation decisively rejected by the people manages to retain power, as happened so clearly in Goa. 2. On a lighter note, a woman can be beautiful or chaste. Ideally, both. Nowadays both virtues are absent.
Whether one thinks of it as punishment or deterrent, this was a desirable outcome. The effort should be to bring cases to swift closure, as happened with Harvey Weinstein. Parliament could set an example by closing its doors to those accused of sexual crimes.
How can the parliament close its doors to those just because thy are accused of sexual offence? IT IS THE PEOPLE WHO SHOULDN’T VOTE FORM THEM! In the last election they elected 43% MPs with serious criminal charges against them, including sexual crimes, while rejecting good candidates with long record of public service. They even elected terror charged sadhvi Pragya Singh Thakur with a big margin of more than 3 lakh votes!
Only fools would challenge the wisdom of people.