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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, is an attempt to bring together opposition parties against the BJP government for the 2024 Lok Sabha elections.

HC to rule in appeal against Sajjan Kumar acquittal in 1984 anti-Sikh riots case Monday

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A trial court had acquitted Congress leader Sajjan Kumar in 2013.

National security & defence are either punching bag or funding source for Congress: Modi

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PM Modi also accused Congress of wanting to make money from defence deals even if it meant hurting morale of military.

Chidambaram questions Jaitley’s claim that Modi govt bought Rafale jets at lower price

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Chidambaram said Jaitley has been maintaining the price of the aircraft was cheaper by 9% or 20%.

Narendra Modi to visit Gandhi bastion Rae Bareli for the first time

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Modi's visit is being seen as a strategy of the BJP to pin the Congress leadership in their respective constituencies in the 2019 general election. 

SC didn’t go into technical aspects of Rafale, only JPC can probe irregularities: Congress

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The Congress claimed the Modi government had misled the Supreme Court by presenting wrong information about the CAG report on the Rafale deal.

Farm loans will be waived in MP, Chhattisgarh, Rajasthan assures Rahul Gandhi

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The Congress, which will form governments in the three states, had promised to waive farmer loans during it election campaign.

After MP, Rajasthan, Rahul Gandhi turns attention to picking Chhattisgarh CM

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Congress president Rahul Gandhi held a third round of talks Saturday to select CM for Chhattisgarh where the party won power in the state after 15 years.

BJP has to learn to befriend the kingmakers of 2019

Seshadri Chari -
Regional parties will guard their turf assiduously by not yielding their space to either of the two national parties.

Seven decades before Statue of Unity, Nehru had unveiled a Sardar Patel statue in Godhra

Urvish Kothari -
Jawaharlal Nehru and Sardar Patel shared mutual respect as comrades in the Independence movement and disciples of Mahatma Gandhi.

Narendra Modi government may have won this Rafale round, but Congress can still fight

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Questions will be raised on how Supreme Court judgment got crucial facts, like CAG report on Rafale being examined by PAC, wrong.
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