The Congress on Friday promised to bring a law against hate crimes, guarantee citizens right to free healthcare, restore statehood of Jammu and Kashmir, create a National Election Fund and extend special category status to Andhra Pradesh in the draft political resolution moved at the party'
He further said, "Congress plenary session is being organised here, these 16 lakh poor families want to ask the national leaders of the Congress, what is their fault that the state government has deprived them of the PM Awas. Those who did not get the PM Awas, today they are holding a housel
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.
"Open the BJP manifesto. What have they done for farmers, the electricity, and many other promises made? It is not the duty of government to build temples and mosques," the Congress leader said on Friday.
Shah said that the Congress government stopped all the welfare schemes initiated by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led Shivraj government during their short tenure in the state. It was good that the Shivraj government in Madhya Pradesh was formed again and he started all the schemes again.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday said that the Congress and similar parties used to loot Northeastern states and treated them as ATMs, while the BJP considers the Northeast as the growth engine of the country's development.
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.
Trinamool Congress Party (TMC) MP Shatrughan Sinha on Thursday said that one cannot ignore Congress leader Rahul Gandhi as PM face in 2024 while adding that the Congress' 'Bharat Jodo Yatra' was revolutionary.
Supreme Court directed the Dwarka Court to grant interim bail to the Congress leader and issued notice to Assam Police and Uttar Pradesh Police on Khera's plea seeking clubbing of FIRs.
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.
Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel on Tuesday exuded confidence that there was 'no chance of BJP' in the state and said that the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is scared of the Congress.
Coming down heavily on the Congress party, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) national president JP Nadda on Tuesday said that the former appeases a particular religion, hampers law and order situation and he hoped that the people of Karnataka will support BJP.