Gehlot was made the chief minister of Rajasthan after the party formed government in the state.
'Wayanad has become famous because of Rahul Gandhi.'
We should be ready beforehand and I agree that if we have to go for alliances then the formalities of those alliances should be completed as soon as possible
The Congress workers torched an effigy of Swamy during the protest.
"We want to see Aaditya Thackeray as the next chief minister. But Uddhav ji will take the final decision," said Pratap Sarnaik, MLA from neighbouring Thane city.
Heavy police force was deployed at the Congress office in view of the march and roads leading to it were barricaded. However, many Congress workers reached the spot and started a public meeting.
Tanwar announced his resignation on Twitter and posted a four-page resignation letter addressed to Congress president Sonia Gandhi in which he said "Congress is going through existential crises, not because of its political opponents but because of serious internal contradiction.
Rahul and Priyanka paid tributes to the slain soldier. They were also seen consoling the members of the bereaved family.
Congress leader Narayanaswamy is seen purportedly splashing the liquid filled in a plastic bottle twice inside a city corporation office after the official there allegedly refused to provide a fake land document.
The duo is unlikely to visit the neighbouring parliamentary constituency of Amethi, from where Congress president Rahul Gandhi lost the Lok Sabha polls.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi urged people to vote in large numbers. "Today, there are bypolls taking place in various places across India. I urge those voting in these seats to vote in large numbers and strengthen the festival of democracy," he said in a tweet.
Chinmayanand was the discharged from Lucknow Hospital and was sent back to Shahjahanpur jail.
Ramanath Rai, the district Congress chief, will be contesting from the Muslim-dominated constituency of Buntwal. Campaigning extensively in the region, the former minister is hopeful of another win.
An angry Patel blamed the Bharatiya Janata Party for the incident and said this was an attempt to kill him.
The veteran Kerala Congress leader had been a dominant player in Kerala's coalition politics, serving under six chief ministers.
A complaint was filed on Tuesday in a local court seeking penal action against Bharatiya Janata Party president Nitin Gadkari for "hurting" religious sentiments of lakhs of followers of Swami Vivekananda by comparing him with mob boss Dawood Ibrahim.
Congress Member of Legislative Assembly Abhijit Mukherjee, son of President-elect Pranab Mukherjee, on Tuesday expressed his desire to contest from Jangipur lok Sabha constituency in Murshidabad district which was represented by his father.
The Trust has been running a vocational training centre on state land allegedly without proper authorisation.
Citing the complaint, the Bharatiya Janata Party said in New Delhi asked Gandhi to come clean on the matter.
Gandhi is scheduled to visit Amethi from October 4-6.
Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi on Thursday held feedback meetings and interacted with party leaders at Birla auditorium in Jaipur.
Factionalism in Congress came to the fore on Wednesday with Union Steel Minister Beni Prasad Verma terming party MP from Barabanki P L Punia as an "outsider" though the party downplayed it and termed it as media creation.
Scripting history, the Bharatiya Janata Party on Friday emerged victorious for the first time from the Ladakh seat with its candidate Thupstan Chhewang defeating Ghulam Raza by a slender margin of 36 votes.
Former Congress Member of Legislative Assembly Sambhajirao Kunjir was beaten up by party workers belonging to the rival faction during the elections for the post of the Pune district Congress.It was a free-for-all in the Congress bhavan when workers, allegedly belonging to the Sanjay Jagtap group hailing from Punandar taluk, attacked Kunjir by hurling chairs at him. The scuffle broke out when efforts were being made to elect the party's Pune district president unanimously.
The district Congress has filed a complaint against West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee accusing him of making "provocative" speech at a public meeting in Coochbehar.
Three workers of rivals Congress and Trinamool Congress were injured in an armed clash between the two parties at Murshidabad district headquarter town of Baharampur on Saturday.
It begins with the position of All India Congress Committee member for which there was a price tag of Rs 1 lakh, followed by UPCC membership for Rs 50,000, District Congress Committee membership for Rs 5000 and Block Presidentship for Rs 20,000.
The Kannur district collector V K Balakrishnan, who the Congress alleged had connived with the ruling Communist Party of India-Marxist in the run up to the prestigious by elections for Kannur assembly constituency stands removed by the Election commission of India following a complaint filed by the Kannur MP K Sudhakaran and the district Congress committee.
The economic muscle in the Mangalore region is generally sympathetic to the BJP, says Aditi Phadnis.
The demand for making Kadappa MP Y S Jaganmohan Reddy the state chief minister in place of his late father Y S Rajasekhara Reddy took an ugly turn with his supporters in the name of Jagan Yuva Sena allegedly tearing down a huge banner carrying the pictures of Congress president Sonia Gandhi and former minister Renuka Choudhary in the Khammam district Congress committee office.
In 2014-15 civic elections, excluding urban bodies and Bhilai Municipal Corporation, the Congress had won four out of 10 municipal corporations while the BJP was reduced to four, two less than from the last time.
Congress has said that it will never instigate violence for political benefits.
Former United Nations diplomat Shashi Tharoor said on Friday that he will contest the forthcoming Lok Sabha polls if he was given a chance and gave indications that his preference was Congress.
The Raigad district Congress has called for a shut down in the Panvel area of New Mumbai on Friday to protest violence by Shiv Sena's activists.
The Muzaffarpur court had on April 16 issued a notice to the Congress president on a petition alleging that that she had hurt the religious sentiments of Hindus by her alleged portrayal as 'Goddess Durga' in a poster at the party's Muradabad office in Uttar Pradesh.
A transgender on Sunday scripted history by winning the mayor's election in Chhattisgarh's Raigarh municipal corporation, defeating his nearest rival from Bharatiya Janata Party.
Both Banday and the CRPF (Central Reserve Police Force) trooper were immediately brought to summer capital Srinagar for treatment.
Gandhi, who will be campaigning at a remote area in Tekamgarh in the region, is expected to inspect implementation of the National Rural Employment Guarantee Programme among other things. The tour by Rahul is being looked at as an attempt by Congress at ascertaining Mayawati's claim to having delivered 'relief' to the region, sources said.
Opposition Congress termed the government's decision as 'unilateral' and said it was against the interest of a majority of Ayyappa devotees in and outside the state.
Ahead of the Lok Sabha elections, Congress on Wednesday released the second list of office-bearers and executive committee members of its Tamil Nadu unit, prominent among them being Union Finance Minister P Chidambaram's son Karti.
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