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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.

Live-in relationships spark political row in Uttarakhand. Congress launches public referendum programme

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The Uttarakhand government implemented the Uniform Civil Code on 27 January in a bid to regulate live-in relationships through a compulsory registration process.

As Congress & BJP demand ban on SFI over ragging row, Pinarayi asks, ‘What about RSS & KSU?’

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Speaking at SFI’s 35th state conference, Kerala CM Pinarayi Vijayan says CPI(M) students' wing is tackling national issues & resisting saffronisation of education.

Congress’s Sam Pitroda says China threat ‘blown out of proportion’, stirs fresh political row

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Pitroda, party's overseas chief, has suggested that China is often labelled a threat due to the tendency of the US to 'define an enemy'.

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Trump expressed support for paper ballots in joint press conference with Modi. In India, Congress has been demanding return to paper ballots, saying EVMs are susceptible to manipulation.

‘Petty’ not to acknowledge good, says Tharoor, as Congress goes red after praise of Vijayan govt

Sourav Roy Barman -
Tharoor asserted that he took pride from the fact that the gains under the Left build on initiatives undertaken by former chief minister & the late Congress stalwart, Oommen Chandy

Rahul’s early pick, coined Vajpayee slogan. Who is AICC Telangana in-charge Meenakshi Natarajan

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Natarajan first ventured into politics with the NSUI. In 2008, she was made AICC secretary as part of Rahul Gandhi's push to induct youth from the grassroots. A year later, she became an MP.

Ahmed Patel’s son Faisal severs ties with Congress, 10 months after party ceded his legacy seat to AAP

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The late Ahmed Patel was not just the Congress's main crisis manager but also former party president Sonia Gandhi's closest aide.

What’s behind Congress’s appointment of low-profile Harshwardhan Sapkal as Maharashtra unit chief

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Sapkal has grown from being the Zilla Parishad Chairman of Buldhana in the early 2000s to being the Buldhana MLA in 2014. He, however, lost the next election in 2019.

Here’s what JPC report on Waqf Bill redacted from Opposition’s dissent notes

Sourav Roy Barman -
A look at report tabled in RS & corrigendum issued later show redacted portions either raise questions on JPC chairperson's conduct or criticise BJP 'agenda' behind introducing bill.

‘Rejected all suggestions by Opposition,’ Cong MP Pramod Tiwari criticises JPC report in Waqf bill

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Tiwari further said that the Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) document had become a government report and sought reconsideration before proceeding further.
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