Congress party on Saturday observed a black day after Petrol and Diesel prices were hiked by Rs 2 per litre in the budget by the Pinarayi Vijayan-led LDF government for the 2022-23 financial year in the legislative assembly.
Speaking to ANI, Venugopal said, "Government at the Centre is using common people's money to support their closest friends. Congress party has decided to have nationwide agitation across districts of the country in front of LIC and SBI offices on Monday."
The top leaders of political parties including the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP), Trinamool Congress (TMC), and Janata Dal-United (JD-U) did not turn up at final event of Rahul Gandhi-led the Bharat Jodo Yatra in Srinagar on Monday.
The tricolour was hoisted in the presence of party MP Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi. Srinagar had received heavy rain and snowfall on Sunday night and photographs from this morning showed the Gandhi siblings playing with snow at the Congress party headquarters.
A few leaders of the NSUI, the student wing of the Congress party showed black flags and attempted to stop the convoy of Telangana Minister for Municipal Administration and Urban Development, IT and Industries KT Rama Rao.
Former Kerala Pradesh Congress Committee President K Muraleedharan on Friday asked Congress leader AK Antony's son Anil Antony to return to the Congress party.
Former Kerala Chief Minister and Congress leader AK Antony's son Anil Antony on Wednesday resigned from the Congress party citing "intolerant calls to retract tweet," on BBC documentary on PM Narendra Modi.
Scindia on Tuesday said, "The anti-national yatra is going on... They (Congress) are questioning the brave soldiers of India who have sacrificed their lives to maintain the unity and integrity of the country. They call Osama bin Laden, Osama ji, the more we say, the less it will be for them.
Bharatiya Janata Party national spokesperson Shehzad Poonawalla on Monday hit out at Congress senior leader Digvijay Singh over the latter disregarding 'surgical strike' against Pakistan and said that the Congress party should change its name to Pak Parast Party (PPP).