Chairperson of the Congress Parliamentary Party Sonia Gandhi has approved the appointments of Pramod Tiwari as Deputy Leader and Rajani Patil as Whip of the Congress Party in the Rajya Sabha, said Congress MP and the party's general secretary (communications) Jairam Ramesh on Saturday.
Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) MLC and Telangana chief minister K Chandrashekar Rao's daughter K Kavitha on Thursday launched a scathing attack on Bharatiya Janta Party (BJP) and said that the opposition in the country is "oppressed" and "harassed" by the BJP for raising their voices.
The BJP leader's remarks came after Rahul Gandhi in the UK said, "Why Europe and the US - the defenders of democracies were oblivious of how a huge chunk of democracy in India has come undone?"
According to the official statement from the hospital, Sonia Gandhi was admitted to the hospital on March 2.
"She is undergoing observation and investigations and her condition is stable," said Dr DS Rana, Chairman, Sir Ganga Ram Hospital.
Addressing the "Kisan-Majdoor Samagam" on the occasion of Swami Sahjanand Saraswati ji's Jayanti, he said, "Nitish Kumar, who spent his entire life opposing Congress, is taking the shelter of Sonia Gandhi only because of the greed for Prime Minister's post."
Former Congress president Sonia Gandhi on Saturday said she was glad that her innings could conclude with the party's mass outreach programme 'Bharat Jodo Yatra' while describing the march as "a turning point" for the party.
The 85th plenary session of the Congress party began on Friday in Nava Raipur, Chhattisgarh. Party Chief Mallikarjun Kharge and former Congress president Sonia Gandhi will address the session on Saturday.
Ahead of the Congress plenary session in Chhattisgarh, speculations remain on whether there will be elections for the Congress Working Committee as there was to elect the party's national president last year.
CR Kesavan, great-grandson of India's first Indian Governor-General, C Rajagopalachari, resigned from the Congress party on Thursday, saying that he has not seen any vestiges of the values that made him work for the party with dedication for over two decades.
Speaking to mediapersons on Sunday, the chief minister said, "Only a few days are left for our three-day plenary session. All arrangements are underway for ministers and delegates. I am obliged to the party high command for giving us this chance to host the session this year."