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Topic: Haryana Congress

Haryana Congress names 4 RS poll cross-voters after two MLAs’ dharna to push party to clear their names

Gokul Setia & Manju Chaudhary staged protest outside party office in Chandigarh, saying their names are being wrongly circulated as those who cross-voted. Hooda met both legislators.

Cross-voting nearly cost Congress Haryana Rajya Sabha seat. Now its state president has quit

Ram Kishan Gujjar’s resignation comes amid speculation that his wife, Naraingarh MLA Shalley Chaudhary, was among five Congress MLAs who voted for BJP-backed independent Satish Nandal.

Fulfilling a promise made to a farmer in a paddy field, Rahul attends the wedding of a Sonipat daughter

On 8 July 2023, Rahul was travelling from Delhi to Himachal Pradesh in his convoy when he met Sanjay Malik in Haryana's Madina. Three years later, he attended his daughter's wedding.

5 months, 57 seats & Philosopher-grade beard—ex-IAS Brijendra Singh walks so Haryana Congress doesn’t stand still

To understand why Brijendra Singh is doing this, you have to go back to 8 Oct, 2024, when Haryana polls results trickled in and demolished most of what Congress had assumed about itself.

Haryana RS bypoll headed for a twist. BJP vice president jumps into fray as Independent

BJP is hoping to repeat Subhash Chandra’s and Kartikeya Sharma’s feat. Chandra was elected to Rajya Sabha as an Independent from Haryana in 2016 and Sharma in 2022.

Hooda says Rahul’s ‘vote chori’ claims vindicate his stand that BJP stole people’s mandate in Haryana

Bhupinder Hooda said, no one, including political observers and politicians, had expected BJP to win in Haryana. Said nearly 15 lakh votes 'increased' after the first voter turnout was released.

Jat-OBC power pair replaces longstanding Jat-Dalit leadership—Congress’s bold gamble in Haryana

For the first time in 18 years, Haryana Congress sidelines Dalits from leadership, stirring debate over Rahul Gandhi’s social justice narrative.

Hooda back as Leader of Oppn in Haryana, ex-minister Narender Singh is new state Congress chief

Rao Narender Singh served as health minister in the second Hooda ministry (2009-14). His appointment as president of Haryana unit is being seen as Congress’s bid to woo OBC voters.

With new sector-level tier, Haryana Congress to fight ‘assault on democracy’ from the ground up

In an organisational rejig to consolidate its grassroots cadre, the party plans to add a 'sector' layer between booths & mandals—a move, political analysts say, is 'out of BJP's playbook'.

10 months since shock Haryana defeat, Congress to walk into its 3rd assembly session without an LoP

Monsoon session of assembly begins Friday without an LoP, underscoring Congress's inability to make organisational decisions amid factional differences.  

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Tanker with 600,000 barrels of Iranian crude shifts course from India to China midway

The shipment earlier bound for Gujarat’s Vadinar has changed course amid payment concerns; could still reach India if issues are resolved, according to Kpler.

India commissions its third nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarine—INS Aridhaman

INS Arihant was first vessel under SSBN project and was quietly commissioned in 2016. The second indigenous SSBN, INS Arighat, was commissioned in August 2024.

Gulf war exposed India’s fragilities. It’s time for navel-gazing, in the national interest

It’s easy to understand why the government can’t speak the hard truth. When this war ends, as all wars do, India’s interests will lie with both the winner and the loser.