Sources said the Congress Parliamentary Party authorised Gandhi to pick the party's leader in Lok Sabha.
The Congress chief celebrated her 69th birthday like a never-seen-before affair where she engaged with her supporters and was all smiles.
Senior Congress leader M Mallikarjun Kharge is not averse to running for the AICC president's election if party chief Sonia Gandhi asks him to contest, sources close to the veteran leader said on Wednesday.
Sachin Tendulkar and his family met Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Delhi on Tuesday to personally invite him for the wedding of their son Arjun and Saaniya Chandhok.
Shivakumar, 57, was arrested by the Enforcement Directorate on September 3 in a money laundering case.
In early 2004, when the Congress had been routed in north Indian states, and even Congressmen were prophesying a two-digit tally for the party in the general elections, Sonia determinedly hit the road and stitched up alliances. Now, once again, she is displaying a similar resoluteness in circumstances that are even more trying, as evidenced by her piloting of the Food Security Bill, says Neerja Chowdhury
'She was not a yes person. She would tell the truth and her feelings to Indira Gandhi, and Indira Gandhi would value her opinion. The same was the case with Rajiv Gandhi who would value her opinion.'
According to reports, Gandhi will address two public meetings at Mokokchung and Dimapur districts.
A year after the Congress party president first travelled abroad for medical treatment, sources familiar with the medical team treating her at New York's Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Hospital said Mrs Gandhi is fully cured of cancer.
So keen is Congress President Sonia Gandhi to have the women's reservation bill passed in the Rajya Sabha that she told women MPs of her party who met her during on Thursday that "even if they have to snatch papers and tear them" they must do so to ensure that the bill is passed in the upper house of Parliament.
On the eve of Congress President Sonia Gandhi's birthday on December 9, the party handed over a 4-0 defeat to her in the assembly elections in Delhi, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and Chhattisgarh.
'Let me reveal for the first time that around August 2019 Congress President Sonia Gandhi told the Congress leadership and CWC members to form a consensus over the name of a non-Gandhi leader.'
Uttar Pradesh police and the Special Protection Group have fortified the village and even residents are not being allowed out of their houses.
President Pranab Mukherjee created a flutter in the Congress party by agreeing to meet 40 Congress MLAs from Andhra Pradesh.
The former Union minister said it is 'quite heartening' to see that Gandhi has taken up the initiative to involve Kishor to come out with a strategy for the 2024 Lok Sabha elections, and the party's revival plan.
Sonia called for scrupulous adherence to the norms to avoid conflict of interest and to the stipulated disclosure requirements.
Several top Congress leaders including party general secretary organisation K C Venugopal, Sachin Pilot, Randeep Surjewala and Shashi Tharoor, wished the former party chief on her birthday.
Rajya Sabha Chairman M Venkaiah Naidu on Monday expunged the references made by Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman to Sonia Gandhi in the House on July 28.
The 77-year-old former Congress president is set to enter the Upper House for the first time from Rajasthan.
Upset over an open rebellion in Rajasthan, Congress president Sonia Gandhi on Monday sought a written report on it from party observers Mallikarjun Kharge and Ajay Maken as the chances of Ashok Gehlot becoming the party chief receded and other names cropped up for the post.
After three months of hectic parliamentary schedule, Congress president Sonia Gandhi will take day off from her busy schedule on Saturday to witness the famed Nehru Trophy Boat Race at Alappuzha in Kerala
Sonia Gandhi is set to become Congress president again and her election will be ratified at the next AICC plenary which is likely to be held in Mumbai by the year-end when the party will mark 125 years of its formation.
There were rumours that the Indian government had shipped across explosives.
In a setback to the Aam Aadmi Party, former high court judge Fakhruddin, who was named the party's candidate in Rae Bareli against Congress president Sonia Gandhi, on Tuesday withdrew from the fray
Congress president Sonia Gandhi is scheduled to address two rallies in poll-bound Gujarat on Friday.
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Congress veteran and former Lok Sabha Speaker Shivraj Patil passed away at 90. He served as Union Home Minister and held several key posts during his long political career.
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Sarabjit Singh, the death row convict in Pakistan, has claimed that there was a threat to his life in jail. Sarabjit, who is currently lodged in Kot Lakhpathrai Jail of Pakistan, has expressed the fear for his life in a letter addressed to Congress President Sonia Gandhi.
Gandhi underwent a surgery on her left shoulder on August 3 and doctors said she almost recovered from the injury.
'The rise of Naxalism is a reflection of the need for our development initiatives to reach the grass roots, especially in our most backward tribal districts.'
Congress President Sonia Gandhi on Monday left for the US for medical check-up.
Congress observers Mallikarjun Kharge and Ajay Maken on Monday briefed party president Sonia Gandhi about the developments in Rajasthan and are expected to submit a written report about the crisis in the party's state unit latest by Tuesday.
The letter, drawn on her official letterhead, is addressed to Muslim leaders all over UP
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