Articles by Saubhadra Chatterji
Seat talks to start on Sunday with AAP and JD(U): Congress' Salman Khurshid
The Congress leader emphasised that formula for seat sharing will vary from state to state and that the focus should be on the party's viability beyond 2024.
Updated on Jan 06, 2024 04:51 AM IST
Congress rebrands and expands Rahul Gandhi’s yatra; UP to be in focus
Gandhi will travel through 100 Lok Sabha constituencies across 110 districts and cover 1,074 kms in Uttar Pradesh over 11 days
Updated on Jan 05, 2024 08:30 AM IST
Saubhadra Chatterji, New Delhi
Seat talks with allies ‘without delay’: Congress
Some allies, including the TMC, JD(U), AAP, and Shiv Sena, are growing impatient with the Congress's delay in finalizing the seat-sharing pact.
Updated on Jan 05, 2024 07:56 AM IST
Saubhadra Chatterji, New Delhi
UP, Gujarat likely to be focus of Rahul Gandhi’s Bharat Nyay Yatra
In Uttar Pradesh, which accounts for 80 Lok Sabha seats, the Congress has only one MP, Sonia Gandhi from Rae Bareli.
Updated on Jan 02, 2024 09:17 AM IST
Saubhadra Chatterji, New Delhi
90% of suspended MPs set to return to House for budget session
Parliament's winter session ended Dec 29, proroguing Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha, concluding the suspension of 132 MPs as it was session-specific.
Updated on Jan 02, 2024 03:35 AM IST
Cong panel holds talks with state units on INDIA poll pacts for 2024
During the internal discussions, the quality of seats, the current political situation, the depleted strength of allies in some areas were among the issues that had come up
Published on Dec 31, 2023 10:37 PM IST
Saubhadra Chatterji, New Delhi
Rahul Gandhi to kick off Bharat Nyay Yatra from January 14
Rahul Gandhi was under pressure from his party colleagues to undertake another yatra in the last few months.
Updated on Dec 28, 2023 01:21 AM IST
Saubhadra Chatterji, New Delhi
Rahul Gandhi to undertake Manipur-Mumbai Bharat Nyaya Yatra from January 14
Congress leader Jairam Ramesh said that the Bharat Nyay Yatra will focus on economic, social, and political justice and cover 14 states
Updated on Dec 27, 2023 11:27 AM IST
New Congress manifesto panel has faces from diverse backgrounds
The manifesto panel is expected to interact with a large number of interest groups, party workers and organisations in the next few months
Updated on Dec 24, 2023 05:40 AM IST
Saubhadra Chatterji, New Delhi
Major rejig in Congress as it gears up for 2024 battle
Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge has conducted a major reshuffle of the party ahead of the 2024 Lok Sabha elections
Updated on Dec 24, 2023 01:02 AM IST
CWC calls for Bharat Jodo 2.0; KamalNath blamed for MP poll loss
At the end of the four hour-long meeting, KC Venugopal announced that Lok Sabha candidates, and screening and manifesto committees would be decided soon.
Updated on Dec 22, 2023 01:05 AM IST
Saubhadra Chatterji, New Delhi
People in constitutional posts doing politics using caste, region: Kharge
Kharge accused the Union government of passing bills without discussion and alleged a conspiracy to convert Parliament into a platform for the ruling BJP.
Updated on Dec 22, 2023 04:48 AM IST
Saubhadra Chatterji, New Delhi
People in Constitutional position becoming part of party politics: Kharge
Mallikarjun Kharge called for actionable points and necessary steps to be taken and asked Rahul Gandhi to begin the second phase of the Bharat Jodo Yatra.
Updated on Dec 21, 2023 11:33 PM IST
Opposition parties likely to move Supreme Court over 3 new crime code laws
The discussion took place was taken at a floor leaders’ meeting of the group organised a day after a larger INDIA bloc meeting on Tuesday.
Updated on Dec 21, 2023 04:28 AM IST
Democracy strangulated by this government: Sonia Gandhi
“We have our task cut out both as a party in our own right and also as a member of the INDIA group,” Gandhi said
Published on Dec 20, 2023 01:00 PM IST
INDIA will select PM candidate after Lok Sabha elections: Mamata
West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee, a key INDIA bloc ally, said on Monday that “it would be better” to decide on the grouping’s prime ministerial candidate after the 2024 general elections instead of worrying about it now.
Updated on Dec 19, 2023 07:38 AM IST
Saubhadra Chatterji, New Delhi
CWC to meet on December 21 for discussion on Lok Sabha polls
The CWC will review the party’s performance in the assembly elections in five states, out of which it won only in Telangana, and take stock of the current political situation.
Published on Dec 18, 2023 04:46 PM IST
Saubhadra Chatterji, New Delhi
Fourteen MPs suspended in storm over Lok Sabha security breach
The developments came a day after two men walked through three layers of security with smoke canisters stuffed in their shoes
Updated on Dec 15, 2023 02:45 AM IST
Security overhaul in Parliament likely as breach exposes chinks
The entry of visitors was stopped indefinitely from Wednesday afternoon and no crowd would be allowed to gather in front of the Makar dwar.
Updated on Dec 14, 2023 03:20 AM IST
Saubhadra Chatterji, New Delhi
Smoke, chaos inside Parliament on 2001 terror attack anniversary
Four people – an e-rickshaw driver, a farmer, a government job aspirant, and a daily wage labourer – hatched the plan to air grievances about government
Updated on Dec 14, 2023 04:43 AM IST
Amit Shah hits back at Opposition on Uniform Civil Code, Article 370 attacks
Shah refuted the Opposition on UCC and questioned if Rajendra Prasad was communal for putting UCC in the directive principles of state policy.
Updated on Dec 13, 2023 03:04 AM IST
Saubhadra Chatterji, New Delhi
Lok Sabha expels Moitra in cash-for-queries row
Moitra has, however, only been disqualified from this term of the Lok Sabha. She can contest the 2024 elections and if she wins, come back to the Lower House.
Updated on Dec 09, 2023 05:30 AM IST
Polls over, INDIA bloc may resume seat talks
The 28-party opposition bloc is aiming to unitedly contest the next summer’s general elections against the ruling BJP.
Updated on Dec 08, 2023 05:43 AM IST
INDIA leaders push Congress on seat talks
The Congress announced it had called an informal meeting of the INDIA bloc on December 6 and said the party wanted to “fully participate in the debates in both Houses”
Updated on Dec 05, 2023 06:38 AM IST
Union ministers win state polls; reshuffle in Modi’s council of ministers likely
Union ministers Narendra Singh Tomar and Pralhad Patel were elected to Madhya Pradesh assembly while Renuka Singh to the Chhattisgarh House
Published on Dec 04, 2023 09:49 AM IST
As Congress bolsters presence in South, it’s losing grip in North
After Sunday’s results, the Congress has 439 MLAs out of 1,320 in 10 states where it is in direct contest with the BJP.
Updated on Dec 04, 2023 09:38 AM IST
Saubhadra Chatterji, New Delhi
Congress faces tough INDIA bloc equation after defeat
For three months now, there’s been little progress on efforts to give the Opposition grouping against the BJP some shape and structure
Updated on Dec 04, 2023 05:36 AM IST
Caste to welfare, all cards fall flat for Congress in heartland
The Congress party in India suffered a dismal performance in the recent assembly elections in the Hindi heartland states.
Updated on Dec 04, 2023 01:24 AM IST
Welfare pitch helps Congress win its second southern state
Congress insiders were quick to point out that a similar success against regional parties in other parts of the country would be difficult
Updated on Dec 04, 2023 07:14 AM IST
‘Expulsion of TMC MP extremely serious punishment’: Adhir writes to LS Speaker
Chowdhury’s letter to Birla assumes significance as it comes just two days before the ethics panel is set to submit its report in the House on Monday in which it has recommended Moitra’s expulsion for the remainder of the current Lok Sabha
Published on Dec 02, 2023 01:06 PM IST