Rajya Sabha MP Sonia Gandhi expressed her happiness on Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra taking oath on Thursday as the MP from Kerala's Wayanad following her win in the recent Lok Sabha bypolls and said that she is "happy and proud."
As tussle over the next Chief Minister of Maharashtra within the Mahayuti alliance continues, parties part of Maha Vikas Aghadi still fume over the loss and raising questions over the credibility of the EVMs.
The Congress is preparing for the Delhi assembly polls expected early next year and has appointed Priyavrat Singh as "war room" Chairman for the polls.
"Votes of people from SC, ST, OBC, poor communities are being wasted. Set aside EVMs. We do not want EVMs; we want voting on ballot paper...Let them keep the machine at their home, at the home of PM Modi or Amit Shah...Then we would know where you (BJP-NDA) stand," Mallikarjun Kharge said
Congress MP Imran Pratapgarhi on Tuesday defended Party President Mallikarjun Kharge statement "We do not want EVMs, we want ballot papers", saying that if trust of a "larger section of voters in voting machines starts shaking then the Election Commission should listen to it."
The first day of the winter session of Parliament saw adjournments in Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha over opposition demands including joint parliamentary committee (JPC) probe on Adani issue even as Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday hit out at members of Congress and other parties in IND
Maharashtra Congress chief Nana Patole on Monday raised questions over the results of the assembly polls and said they were getting calls from all over the state in which people were expressing their apprehensions about the outcome.
A meeting of Congress Parliamentary Strategy Group meeting was held here which was presided over by the Congress president and Leader of Opposition in Rajya Sabha Mallikarjun Kharge
Congress President alleged that public money was used to give bribery, and there are serious allegations of "corruption, bribery and financial irregularities."