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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.

India bloc considers land reform push in Bihar manifesto, reviving report Nitish shelved in 2008

Sourav Roy Barman -
Left parties pushing Congress & RJD to implement recommendations aimed at limiting land concentration, providing security to tenant farmers, redistributing land to marginalised rural workers.

PM Modi kicks off NDA campaign in Bihar, says people will prevent return of RJD & Congress’ ‘jungle raj’

Neelam Pandey -
PM Modi accuses RJD and Congress of caring only about their own families. Says under CM Nitish Kumar's leadership, NDA 'is set to break all its old records of victory' in Bihar.

It’s not just Bhai Jagtap. ‘Go solo’ call builds in Mumbai Congress, sparking ripples in MVA

Purva Chitnis -
Sena UBT MP Sanjay Raut dismissed Jagtap's suggestion, but Mumbai Congress president admits many Congress workers do feel party should fight separately. 

Two different tunes: Owaisi’s AIMIM sits out in Jubilee Hills but challenges Congress, RJD in Bihar

Prasad Nichenametla -
There can be no connection, or comparison between a state election where a new govt will be formed & a by-poll with no consequences on Telangana's political circumstances, he says.

From KPMG and Shaadis.com to running Congress affairs in Bihar, who is Krishna Allavaru

Prashant Srivastava -
While the likes of MP Tariq Anwar & Anand Madhav are against Bihar poll in-charge, colleagues from Youth Congress like Srinivas BV vouch for his work ethic & supportive nature.

Now in Congress, Gopinathan says govt never accepted resignation. What rules say on IAS officers quitting

Sanya Dhingra -
Though it has been six years since he resigned from the IAS, the govt has not accepted his resignation, Kannan Gopinathan told ThePrint. He joined the Congress Monday.

MNS-Sena UBT bonhomie to extend to MVA? Raj Thackeray’s EC visit hints at thaw in ties with Congress

Purva Chitnis -
Opposite stands on north Indians makes it difficult for the MNS and the Congress to come together. Both parties say there are no discussions on an alliance.

Govt cannot go on bullying citizens: former IAS Kannan Gopinathan after joining Congress

Sanya Dhingra -
Decision to join politics was after a culmination of six years of introspection and deliberation, former civil servant from Kerala's Kottayam district says.

Ex-IAS officer Kannan Gopinathan, who resigned to protest scrapping of Article 370, joins Congress

ANI -
In his address after joining the Congress, Gopinathan criticised the BJP government & asserted that 'only Congress can take the country in the direction in which it should go'.

Now at Rahul Gandhi’s door, why nomadic SCs are opposing Siddaramaiah’s internal reservation formula

Sharan Poovanna -
Under internal reservation matrix, of 17% reservation for SCs, groups such as SC-Right & SC-Left given increased allocation of 6% each, and Category C, or ‘touchables’, given 5%.
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Thank you Donald Trump, again. India now has reason to shed fear of trade deals and risky reform

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UK, EFTA already in the bag and EU on the way, many members of RCEP except China signed up, and even restrictions on China being lifted, India has changed its mind on trade.

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