Soon after the resignation of Election Commissioner Arun Goel, Congress general secretary KC Venugopal said that it is 'deeply concerning' for the health of the world's largest democracy that Election Commissioner has resigned on the cusp of the Lok Sabha elections.
With Lok Sabha election schedule likely to be announced soon, the the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam, the ruling party in Tamil Nadu, has sealed a seat sharing pact with the Congress (both allies of the INDIA bloc) which will contest on nine seats, setting aside 30 seats for the ruling DMK.
The Congress released its first list of 39 candidates for Lok Sabha elections on Friday with party General Secretary KC Venugopal asserting that his party's priority is to win the maximum number of Lok Sabha seats.
Kerala has 20 parliamentary seats. The Indian Union Muslim League (IUML) is likely to contest on two, and one seat each will be given to Kerala Congress (Joseph) and Revolutionary Socialist Party (B), he said.
After the meeting, Congress General Secretary KC Venugopal said "We had the first central election committee regarding the parliament candidates. We finalised seats from Kerala, Karnataka, Telangana, Chhattisgarh, Delhi and Lakshadweep. The procedure is going on; formal announcement will
Congress general secretary KC Venugopal on Friday visited the family of JS Sidhharth, a veterinary student who allegedly died by suicide in Kerala's Wayanad on February 18.
In a letter to the Congress General Secretary, KC Venugopal, APCC working President Rana Goswami wrote, "I beg to state that I am tendering my resignation as the working President of Assam Pradesh Congress Committe and as an active member of Indian National Congress."
Following the seat-sharing pact between the Congress, Samajwadi Party and the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), Congress leader KC Venugopal took a swipe at the BJP, which is yet to announce such an arrangement with its allies, asking whether the ruling party has been held "hostage" by the parties i
Congress general secretary KC Venugopal, in his letter, said that the media reports have exposed the alleged "quid-pro-quo between BJP and several firms, which in a strange coincidence donated to it, after the Enforcement Directorate (ED), Income Tax Department (IT) and Central Bureau of Inv
Accusing the BJP-led government of being "autocratic" and trying to capture democracy through "extortion and financial terrorism", Congress on Thursday said that the banks were forced to transfer about Rs 65.89 crore from the party's bank deposits even as Income Tax Appellate Tribunal had pu
The Congress and the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) seem to have finalised their seat-sharing alliance for the seven Lok Sabha seats in Delhi, sources said on Thursday.