The Congress Working Committee (CWC) adopted three resolutions in New Delhi on Saturday: one praising Rahul Gandhi’s tenure as party president, one making Sonia Gandhi interim president until the AICC elects a regular chief, and one on the situation in Jammu and Kashmir. Sonia Gandhi as interim chief The committee unanimously decided to ask Sonia Gandhi to take charge as interim president until a regular president is elected by the AICC. According to the resolution, Rahul Gandhi was asked to continue but declined to withdraw his resignation. Tribute to RahulRead More

Gautam Roy, a former Congress minister and a well-known leader from Assam’s Barak valley, joined the ruling BJP in Guwahati on Sunday along with former Rajya Sabha member Santiuse Kujur. The joining Roy entered the party in the presence of Assam Finance Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma and state BJP president Ranjeet Kumar Dass. He said he was inspired by the BJP’s ideology and would work to spread it in the Barak valley. Youth Congress leader Hiranya Bhuyan also joined the BJP at the event. Break with the Congress Roy hadRead More

Sonia Gandhi’s return as head of the Congress is expected to change the balance within the party in Madhya Pradesh, with many in Bhopal believing her appointment as interim president could strengthen Chief Minister Kamal Nath’s position both in the state and nationally. Old guard versus young leaders During Rahul Gandhi’s time as party president, younger leaders gained ground over long-trusted Gandhi family associates such as Digvijaya Singh and Kamal Nath. Since his resignation, the party has been seen as split between veterans and the younger generation. Before the 2018Read More

Senior BJP leader Shivraj Singh Chouhan said in Bhubaneswar on Sunday that voters had rejected dynastic politics in the general election, but the Congress had failed to learn from this and still wanted Rahul Gandhi and Sonia Gandhi at its helm. Attack on the Congress Chouhan, a BJP vice-president and former Madhya Pradesh chief minister, said BJP leaders rise naturally through the ranks while the Congress cannot look beyond one family. He told reporters it was surprising that the Congress Working Committee still wanted the two Gandhis to lead. OnRead More

A reference to Gorkhaland in a letter from Union Home Minister Amit Shah to Darjeeling MP Raju Bista sparked a political row in West Bengal, with the ruling Trinamool Congress alleging a “plot” to split the state. The BJP rejected the accusation as “baseless”. The letter According to BJP sources, Bista had written to Shah in July raising concern that Gorkhas were not covered by a special Delhi Police cell set up to tackle racist acts, especially against people from the northeast. In his reply, Shah said the concerns ofRead More