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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 Gandhi’s imminent promotion is more talk, less of a certainty

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Contrary to reports, the Congress is still undecided over Rahul Gandhi replacing his mother as Congress president. The quandary, as in the past, seems to be about timing. RUHI TEWARI

#RahulGandhi vs #AmitShah is no contest on Twitter too

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3 years of Modi govt: Congress digs up failures, but unsure about cow vigilantism

Ruhi Tewari -
The issues that the opposition party will attack the government with include foreign policy, employment, Kashmir, personal freedom and farm crisis. Ruhi Tewari

When a national party dumps Nationalism

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Punjab CM Amarinder Singh has taken on Canada’s Khalistani sympathisers, but PM Modi might grab the diplomatic point.

To go after Modi or not? Congress struggles with new doubt

Ruhi Tewari -
A section in Congress believes that attacking PM Modi has not helped the party- and it needs to change its communication strategy.

Congress and the art of being in limbo

Ruhi Tewari -
Congress has become a sleepwalking opposition party, showing no signs of wanting to seriously reinvent itself.

Hit by contradictions — from cow to caste

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Why BJP can't realize its dream of uniting with culture (Hindutva) what sociology (caste) divided.

Our 10, Drowning Street

Shekhar Gupta -
No, Congress isn't dead yet; it has become two distinct parties, one of the durbar, other of the field, and if they keep drifting apart, death is a certainty.

Why BJP has more lessons to learn about governance

Shekhar Gupta -
Post assembly-polls, Narendra Modi should not miss the opportunity to change course and discourse, from combat to governance.

Five predictable results make for an uncertain 2019

Shekhar Gupta -
BJP's leadership has earned itself a post-Bihar reprieve, but it hasn't brought them a more convincing nationwide claim in 2019.
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