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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.

Rahul-Priyanka rallies, tickets to defectors, why Congress is betting big on these 12 Delhi seats

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The party won three consecutive Delhi elections before the rise of AAP but failed to win even a single seat in the 70-member assembly in the last two.

Gujarat BJP leader calls reservation ‘a headache’, slammed by Congress & AAP

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BJP Gujarat’s secretary Naukaben Prajapati allegedly made the comment while delivering a speech at a flag-hoisting ceremony on Republic Day in Banaskantha district.

How Kharge & Rahul’s ‘Jai Samvidhan’ rally became more about holy dips in Ganga, slavery & sins

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Congress leader Rahul Gandhi also said at ‘Jai Bapu, Jai Bhim, Jai Samvidhan rally’ in MP’s Mhow that BJP-RSS want the system that prevailed before Independence to be reinstated.

Delhi’s Muslim voters have ‘Congress in heart, but AAP in mind’. Will it benefit BJP

Sourav Roy Barman -
That Muslims didn’t take kindly to AAP’s approach to the Delhi riots was evident in results of 2022 civic polls, in which Congress won five wards in neighbourhoods hit by the riots.

What’s the brewery controversy that has united Congress & BJP against the Left in Kerala

Aneesa PA -
Kerala govt announced last week it had sanctioned Madhya Pradesh-based alcohol manufacturer Oasis Group to set up a Rs 600-crore grain-based distillation and brewery unit in Palakkad.

SC halts defamation case against Rahul Gandhi over his remarks on Amit Shah. What’s his defence

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In 2018, during an AICC plenary session, Gandhi referred to Amit Shah as being involved in a murder case. A defamation case was filed by BJP worker Naveen Jha in 2019.

Blowing up police stations to murders of MLAs, the life of slain Maoist commander Chalapathi

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Born in Andhra Pradesh’s Chittoor district, Chalapathi joined the Maoists sometime in the 1980s and first rose to become east division secretary of banned outfit around 2010.

Fact Check: Rahul didn’t insult Kharge at inauguration of Congress’s new office, was offering help

ThePrint Team -
A video from the inauguration of Congress's new HQ, Indira Bhavan, shows Mallikarjun Kharge, seated beside Sonia Gandhi, being allegedly asked by Rahul Gandhi to vacate his chair.

Up against Kejriwal, Congress’s Sandeep Dikshit hits streets to remind voters of ‘Sheila ji wali Delhi’

Prashant Srivastava -
Sandeep Dikshit is contesting against AAP chief Kejriwal in New Delhi seat. As part of campaign, he distributed a pamphlet with his biodata and a picture of him and his mother.

Closure of Hindenburg Research does not mean clean-chit for ‘Modani’, says Congress

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Reiterating demand for JPC on allegations against Adani Group, Jairam Ramesh says 'already-compromised' institutions of Indian state will continue to act only to protect the powerful.
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