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, is an attempt to bring together opposition parties against the BJP government for the 2024 Lok Sabha elections.
This is actually a matter for the Chief Election Commissioner to think over. Vadra, Calcutta CP, Akhilesh Yadav etc may or not be guilty, the CEC should on his own (Suo Moto?) decide that all such cases which were languishing in cold storage — WHICH DID NOT HAVE A TRAIL OF REGULAR HEARINGS IN LAST TWO YEARS — should be postponed till under the elections are over. If they weren’t attended to in last two years even at a normal speed, then what is the urgency now to investigate them on daily basis? If their result can affect the election results one way or the other, they are OBSTACLES TO FREE AND FAIR ELECTIONS. Hence the decision to postpone them until the elections are over.