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Since the 2018 Assembly elections, the Rajasthan Congress has been sitting on a ticking time bomb. Every politically aware person was well-informed that the grand old party would face a crisis in the state sooner than later. The Gandhi family ignored the issue. Since 2017, the party, led by Rahul Gandhi, has been making strange choices in state politics across India. There are numerous examples of states where members of the Congress won elections and joined other parties, especially the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). The Congress has been forced into a situation from which no one anticipates a recovery. Every time it tries to make decisions regarding a course correction, certain circumstances will invariably thwart the revival plan. Seeds Of Battle Every party needs one leader. But when there are two leaders forced to make peace with each other, Rajasthan happens. The Congress fought the 2018 Rajasthan Assembly elections under Sachin Pilot’s leadership. Ashok Gehlot was notably … [Read more...] about OPINION | Trust, Loyalty, Lust for Power: Rajasthan an Example of How Deep-Rooted Congress Crisis Is

No, the Congress presidential race is not just a Shashi Tharoor versus Mallikarjun Kharge fight. Just like former Union minister Tharoor and Opposition leader in Rajya Sabha Kharge, a little-known former state minister from Jharkhand, KN Tripathi, too, filed his nomination for the post of All India Congress Committee (AICC) national president with Madhusudan Mistry, chairman of the Congress central election authority, on Friday. After filing his nomination, KN Tripathi spoke exclusively to CNN-News18, “I have filed my nomination for the post of the party president today. Let the scrutiny be done and next decision will be taken thereafter.” Tripathi said that everybody wanted Rahul Gandhi to be the party chief, but he was firm on his decision of not filing his nomination. “I saw many leaders buying the nomination papers, so I also decided to fill my nomination form. We were the first to file it.” When asked if not him, between Tharoor and Kharge, who was fit for the post, … [Read more...] about Not Just Kharge vs Tharoor: Ex-Jharkhand Minister KN Tripathi too is Contesting for Congress Top Post

The third leg of Rahul Gandhi’s 3,500-kilometre Bharat Jodo Yatra started in poll-bound Karnataka with two strong messages — one for the Congress and the other for the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). In the well-attended gathering at Gundlupet, Gandhi said the Congress had a message for the BJP and Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS): “We will expose their corruption, rising unemployment and divisive politics of hate.” Gandhi had a message for the Congress as well. He held the hands of Congress’s strong yet politically competitive leaders — Siddaramaiah and Shivakumar — while playing the drums, to send out a strong message of unity and the need to remain united. This is the second time that Gandhi is seen insisting that the two leaders show a united front as both leaders have been in the midst of an internal power struggle. Earlier, during Siddaramaiah’s 75th birthday celebration, which was seen as a show of strength by the former CM and counter to the claims that he was sidelined … [Read more...] about In Karnataka, Rahul Gandhi Walks Away from Power Tussle, Drums Up Support to ‘Jodo Bharat, Congress’

Two days after a large section of Congress MLAs boycotted the Congress Legislature Party (CLP) meeting in Rajasthan which was scheduled to be held on Sunday at Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot ’s residence, party MLA Divya Maderna questioned Mr. Gehlot’s leadership capacity considering that he failed to summon the errant legislators to the meeting and expressed his helplessness claiming that things were now beyond his control. The Osian MLA is the granddaughter of Parasram Maderna — a popular Jat leader who was heading the CLP in 1998. Mr. Maderna was overlooked to make Mr. Gehlot the Chief Minister. It was his first stint at the helm. Also Read | Up to Sachin Pilot to decide his future, says Rajasthan BJP chief Satish Poonia “Let’s believe that he [Mr. Gehlot] didn’t know about the brewing rebellion. But at 7 p.m. when he did not find the legislators at his residence where the CLP meet was organised why didn’t he pick the phone and summon them? This definitely raises a … [Read more...] about Rajasthan Congress MLA questions Ashok Gehlot’s leadership capacity

The race for the Congress president’s post is on as senior Congress leaders Shashi Tharoor and Mallikarjun Kharge both filed their nomination papers at the AICC headquarters on Friday with the Karnataka party loyalist emerging as a clear favourite. Former Jharkhand minister, K N Tripathi has also joined the fray, filing his nomination on Friday as well. The 80-year-old Kharge, flanked by top Congress leaders, filed 14 sets of nomination papers with the proposers including Ashok Gehlot, Digvijaya Singh, A K Antony, Ambika Soni, Mukul Wasnik and members from the G-23 ginger group comprising Anand Sharma, Bhupinder Hooda, Prithviraj Chavan and Manish Tewari, while Tharoor, who was also part of the G-23 group, filed five sets of nomination papers. Former Jharkhand minister Tripathi filed a single set of poll papers with Madhusudan Mistry, the chairman of the Congress’s Central Election Authority. Mistry on Friday told ANI that they had received three forms and would scrutinise them … [Read more...] about Congress Prez Poll Updates: Battle of Titans With Kharge Vs Tharoor, KN Tripathi Also Joins Race; Eyes on Rajasthan Over CM Post

close Video Ketanji Brown Jackson is sworn in as the next Supreme Court Justice at the Supreme Court of the United States Ketanji Brown Jackson is sworn in as the next Supreme Court Justice at the Supreme Court of the United States. The Library of Congress explained why it hosted an event for the investiture of Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson but did not appear to hold any events celebrating the installations of Justices Brett Kavanaugh, Neil Gorsuch, Amy Coney Barrett, or other justices. The Library of Congress is set to honor the investiture of Jackson to the Supreme Court on Friday in a massive event featuring performances by several musicians and groups, including the Smithsonian Jazz Masterworks Quartet and civil rights movement Freedom Singer Rutha Mae Harris. BIDEN, HARRIS JOIN KETANJI BROWN JACKSON AT INVESTITURE CEREMONY AHEAD OF JUSTICE’S FIRST TERM Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, accompanied by … [Read more...] about Library of Congress explains why it hosted Jackson investiture but not for Gorsuch, Kavanaugh, Barrett

WASHINGTON – James Madison (search), often called the "Father of the Constitution," did not think it needed a bill of rights. Public pressure was so great that he decided it would be politically necessary, so he made a speech in the First Federal Congress proposing 19 changes, 10 of which passed. Beginning Friday, Madison's "Notes for a Speech in Congress" of June 8, 1789, will be available online, along with about 12,000 other pages from his papers preserved in the Library of Congress. Some are in code, including letters to President Thomas Jefferson, for whom Madison snder Hamilton, James Monroe and other founding fathers (search). His notes from the convention of 1787 that drafted the Constitution are there, too, as are his notes from the legislative session in his native Virginia that ratified it. Madison's letters and notes also cover his two terms as the fourth president, including the War of 1812, when an invading British force burned down the White House, the … [Read more...] about Library of Congress Puts Madison Papers Online

On Friday’s broadcast of the Fox Business Network’s “Mornings with Maria,” Rep. Michael Burgess (R-TX) said that Congress needs to ensure that money the government has gotten from selling oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve is used to re-stock the reserve instead of going for something else, and pointed out that he wanted to purchase oil for the SPR back in 2020 when oil prices were low, a move that Democratic leaders opposed. Burgess stated, “The Strategic Petroleum Reserve exists for a national emergency, not for a political emergency, but that’s what it was expended for. And now, you even have to ask the question, what has happened with the dollars that they received from selling off the oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve? Is the Department of Energy going to hold on to those to buy new oil or are they going to go off in some other direction? This is a terrible situation. And actually, Congress has a role here with the oversight of the Strategic Petroleum Reserve. Two … [Read more...] about GOP Rep. Burgess: Congress Must Ensure SPR Doesn’t Turn into Slush Fund, We Wanted to Fill it When Oil Was Cheap

Hours after filing his nomination papers for the post of Congress president, senior leader Shashi Tharoor speaks to The Hindu on the reasons for contesting and the odds of his battle. He pitched it as a contest between the senior leadership that believes in status quo and the ordinary workers who want change. Why are you fighting this election? I believe that the party deserves to move forward in a positive way; we have the answers to what India needs at this time, especially for those who have been suffering in the past eight years of the BJP rule. And I think to do that, one needs to have a vision that both galvanises the workers of the party and at the same time attracts voters. More importantly, more voters than we were able to attract in the last couple of elections. You have been advocating for internal elections for long, but many feel it is deeply divisive. Within a week of the notification of this election, we saw how the Congress government in Rajasthan was … [Read more...] about Kharge represents

1. Congress leader Rahul Gandhi’s Bharat Jodo Yatra enters its Karnataka today. He has arrived at Gundlupet in Chamarajnagar district early this morning and he will tour in Karnataka over the next 21 days . The yatra will traverse across seven districts, covering a distance of about 500 km , cutting through Old Mysore region, Central Karnataka, and parts of Kalyana Karnataka regions. 2. As the nomination process for election for the post of All India Congress Committee (AICC) president is set to close later today, Mallikarjun Kharge, opposition leader in the Rajya Sabha, former MP from Kalaburagi in Karnataka and one of the senior most Congress leaders from the State, is emerging as a frontrunner. 3. BMS Educational Trust is inaugurating Department of Machine Learning and B.S. Narayan Centre of Excellence in Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning. Air Vice Marshall Dr. Devesh Vatsa, Commandant, Software Development Institute, Indian Air Force, Bengaluru, will be the … [Read more...] about Top news developments in Karnataka on September 30, 2022