In a statement, Congress general secretary Jairam Ramesh questioned the motive behind the inauguration of the "incomplete" temple by the leaders of the BJP and the RSS.
April 28 will be an interesting day in Karnataka politics. Congress chief Sonia Gandhi will pay a visit to the state to take stock of the drought situation and pep up the feuding party cadres. She will also visit the Siddaganga Mutt in Tumkur that is considered to be the abode of the dominant Lingayat community in the state. Gandhi will take part in a programme to wish Sivakumar Swamy, the seer of the mutt, on his 105th birthday.
She noted that the democracy was at peril under the Modi government and alleged that it was misusing and abusing its mandate in the "most dangerous" fashion, the sources said.
On Gandhi, Obama says he has 'a nervous, unformed quality about him, as if he were a student who'd done the coursework and was eager to impress the teacher but deep down lacked either the aptitude or the passion to master the subject', according to The New York Times review.
Only in the event of the RSS managing to force Modi into accepting a consensual candidate, will the party not continue to 'being' the 'next Congress', observes Nilanjan Mukhopadhyay.
In a bid to embarrass the Congress, the Bharatiya Janata Party on Thursday sought to know if the party and its President Sonia Gandhi concurred with the Assam Accord signed by former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi and demanded the agreement be implemented to solve the crisis in the state.
Congress president Sonia Gandhi will launch her nationwide election campaign in Assam along with party Vice president Rahul Gandhi and Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh by the end of the month.
Congress President Sonia Gandhi's absence was felt during the Anna Hazare agitation as she has always given us a way out, Union Minister Veerappa Moily said on Thursday.
The Congress on Monday slammed Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar for his "deplorable" remarks against Sonia Gandhi and demanded an unconditional apology from him.
Senior Bharatiya Janata Party leader L K Advani has apologised to Congress president Sonia Gandhi for a party-appointed task force report, which had alleged that she and her late husband Rajiv had accounts in Swiss banks.
Party President Sonia Gandhi left for the United States on Wednesday and is reported to have undergone a major surgery in a New York hospital on Thursday morning local time, which is being described as 'successful.'
The meeting did not make much headway towards finding a solution to the Karnataka crisis.
The Bharatiya Janata Party on Saturday condemned Congress leader Digvijay Singh's reported comment that the involvement of Hindu outfits in Mumbai blasts cannot be ruled out, and sought an apology from Congress President Sonia Gandhi in this regard.
"Sonia Gandhi has appealed to partymen and well-wishers against coming to her to extend New Year greetings in the wake of gang-rape incident," party General Secretary Janardhan Dwivedi said in New Delhi on Monday.
Should Kanimozhi be spared from imprisonment in the 2G spectrum scam because she is a woman, as Sonia Gandhi implied on Tuesday? Sheela Bhatt presents the counter-argument
Amid cheers and slogan-shouting by party workers, Sonia Gandhi walked besides her son Rahul Gandhi and other leaders for a few kilometres in Karnataka's Mandya district. And there were several Kodak moments.
The BJP has demanded the death penalty for former Congress MP Sajjan Kumar, who was sentenced to life imprisonment for his role in the 1984 anti-Sikh riots. The party's leaders have called for the CBI to appeal the verdict, saying it was not an ordinary murder case but a genocide. The BJP has also said that the "wheels of justice" are starting to turn and that other Congress leaders involved in the riots will soon face consequences.
Aaditya Thackeray had a brief meeting with Gandhi at her 10 Janpath residence in New Delhi.
"Soon it will be done," Sonia said when asked by reporters repeatedly as to when Rahul Gandhi, who is at present the vice president of the party, will be elevated.
The Bharatiya Janata Party on Sunday accused Congress president Sonia Gandhi, her party leaders and the Centre of being directly responsible for the rise in Maoist menace in Bihar with their 'pro-Naxal statements'. "Naxals have become audacious in Bihar. The Centre, Sonia Gandhi and her party leaders are directly responsible for it. By their pro-Naxal statements, they have boosted the morale of Maoists," BJP spokesperson Tarun Vijay charged at a press conference.
"Dear respected honourable @NCIndia president Sonia Gandhi ji being a woman arn't you anguished by the treatment I am given by your government in Maharashtra? Can you not request your Government to uphold the principles of the Constitution given to us by Dr Ambedkar?" the actor posted on Twitter.
Dominic Xavier offers his take on the bitter face-off between the frail Congress President Sonia Gandhi, who will be 76 in December, and Union Minister Smriti Irani, 46, in the Lok Sabha on Thursday, July 28, 2022.
The Congress President says that corporate strategy should have social investments.
That she turned down the post of the prime minister was simply flabbergasting, the daily said.
The meeting comes ahead of the party's Punjab unit revamp and amid reports that Sidhu may get a key role in the organisation.
Congress president Sonia Gandhi figures as the seventh most powerful woman of the world in the Forbes list which is topped by German Chancellor Angela Merkel and US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
Former US deputy secretary of state Strobe Talbott has said that on the nuclear question and issues relating to India's security, Congress president Sonia Gandhi was "almost Indira-like."
Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi on Monday targeted Congress President Sonia Gandhi by claiming that Rs 1880 cr has been spent from the public exchequer on her foreign trips and her 'treatment abroad'.
He said with a view to releasing a white paper on the state's finances, the cabinet has asked the officials to furnish information on the expenditure made by the previous government from 2014 to December 7, 2023 on all departments in the state government and the purposes for which the expenditure was incurred.
Attacking Congress president Sonia Gandhi over her "silence" on the Bhopal gas tragedy verdict, Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi asked her to explain who was the 'Maut ka saudagar' (merchant of death).
Former PM Manmohan Singh and Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi also paid their tributes.
Giving in to the squabbles within the ruling Congress, Arunachal Pradesh Chief Minister Jarbom Gamlin has offered his resignation to party president Sonia Gandhi, to give the party high command a chance to step in and end the ongoing crisis. According to party sources, the CM's main detractor in the party and president of Arunachal Pradesh Congress Committee Nabam Tuki has also submitted his resignation to Sonia Gandhi. The infighting in the Congress had spilled over.
The Congress alleged that the money-laundering law has been weaponised to target and humiliate people, and urged the Supreme Court to decide soon on the matter concerning the National Herald-Associated Journals Limited case.
With the return of Sonia Gandhi there is anticipation that despite her status-quo approach on most issues, she may finally decide to move and put the derailed party and government back on track, says Renu Mittal.
Rahul left for an undisclosed location abroad amid a growing clamour for structural changes within after the party's debacle in the Uttar Pradesh polls.
On Monday, Shashi Tharoor met Sonia Gandhi and expressed his intention to contest the upcoming AICC chief polls.
Sheela Bhatt reveals how Sonia Gandhi has decided to take an active role in governance with the resurrection of the powerful National Advisory Council. A rediff exclusive!
RTI activist from Hisar says he will consider legal recourse against newspaper that quoted his application on the amount of money spent on Sonia Gandhi's foreign trip. Vicky Nanjappa reports.
Lok Sabha on Thursday witnessed uproar over a controversial remark by a Rashtriya Loktantrik Party MP, who is a Bharatiya Janata Party ally, against the Gandhi family during a discussion on coronavirus, leading to adjournment of proceedings for over an hour.
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