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Topic: Congress

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.

Dassault contradicts Hollande, says it chose Reliance Defence for Rafale offsets

PTI - 22 September, 2018

Dassault statement comes a day after former French president Hollande claimed that the Indian government proposed Reliance Defence.

Rajasthan BJP MLA & Jaswant Singh’s son Manvendra quits BJP, may join Congress

Kumar Anshuman - 22 September, 2018

BJP MLA Manvendra Singh has been at loggerheads with his party for denying dad Jaswant Singh a Lok Sabha ticket in 2014

This is why Mayawati’s BSP is such a valuable political ally

Roshan Kishore, HT - 22 September, 2018

BSP is the only party apart from the BJP and the Congress with a truly national footprint and wants adequate reward for it.

Modi govt calls off India-Pakistan talks in New York, says ‘true face’ of PM Khan revealed

Jyoti Malhotra - 21 September, 2018

India cites killings of its security personnel and release of 20 postage stamps ‘glorifying a terrorist’ as reasons for cancelling talks

India’s life expectancy is 68 years, but thousands of Telangana voters are 2017 years old

Ritika Jain - 21 September, 2018

A Congress MLA has moved the Supreme Court alleging widespread anomalies in the electoral rolls of poll-bound Telangana.

Brahmin at the helm, Congress out to court upper castes in Bihar

Kumar Anshuman - 21 September, 2018

Revamped Bihar Congress unit sees first Brahmin chief in 26 years. Party hopes to tap into upper caste ‘discontent’ with BJP over SC/ST Act.

In boycotting RSS event, Congress lost chance to reach out to more voters

Seshadri Chari - 21 September, 2018

Mohan Bhagwat’s lecture series has blunted the opposition to RSS.

The latest to call for a Bharat bandh are BJP supporters & RSS affiliates

Pragya Kaushika - 20 September, 2018

Traders, worried Walmart-Flipkart deal will kill business of small retailers, say they are not just donors but also voters, and it's time to remind Modi govt of that.

Congress says it has enough legislators to replace BJP govt in Goa

PTI - 20 September, 2018

Congress wants the governor to call upon them to form government since the BJP is short of the halfway mark.

Could have built Rafale jets in India, says former HAL chief

Rahul Singh, HT - 20 September, 2018

T. Suvarna Raju's remarks mark the first time anyone from the state-owned aircraft maker has publicly commented on questions around Rafale deal.

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