Both sides have accused each other of defying the party whip during the Speaker's election and the trust vote on July 3 and 4, respectively, seeking disqualification of the legislators from both sides.

Opposition party meet: Congress leader Mallikarjun Kharge, CPI(M) leader Sitaram Yechury, Shiv Sena leader Sanjay Raut and others were present in the meeting.

Hamid Ansari row: Pak journalist Mirza has claimed that he had visited India five times during the UPA rule and passed on sensitive information to his country's spy agency ISI. Mirza purportedly commented that he had visited India on Ansari's invitations and also met him.

Hamid Ansari said falsehood is being unleashed that while "as ambassador to Iran, I had betrayed the national interest in a matter for which allegations have made by a former official of a government agency."

Vice president election 2022: According to sources, the Opposition will field a non-Congress face as the vice-presidential candidate. The candidate, who was fielded by the Opposition for the Presidential election, was also a non-congress face.

Agnipath Protest: Sources said Manish Tewari, who has publicly lauded the Agnipath scheme and termed it as a much-needed reform in the armed forces, has taken a stand contrary to that taken by his party.

Congress MPs, its working committee members, and All India Congress Committee office-bearers took part in the Satyagraha that began at 10 AM at Jantar the Mantar on Sunday morning.

Sonia Gandhi was admitted to Sir Ganga Ram Hospital on June 12 after bleeding from her nose following a recent Covid infection.

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee last week invited leaders of 19 political parties, including seven chief ministers, for a meeting in the national capital to produce a “confluence of opposition voices” for the election on July 18.

The Election Commission said that 4,809 members of the electoral college, comprising MPs and MLAs, are set to elect the successor to incumbent Ram Nath Kovind.

The Delhi Pradesh Congress Committee has passed a resolution to make Rahul Gandhi, the president of Congress Party.

Priyanka Gandhi Vadra has requested those who came in ger contact to take all necessary precautions.  

Congress has nominated three candidates from Rajasthan including party's communication department in-charge Randeep Singh Surjewala, Mukul Wasnik and Pramod Tiwari.

A volvo bus from Deepender Singh Hooda's residence will take MLAs to Indira Gandhi Airport (IGI) Terminal 4. From there, they will board plane for Raipur in Chhattisgarh, sources said.

Congress president has isolated herself and has been given requisite medical attention.

Sonia Gandhi has been asked to depose before the ED on June 8 while Rahul Gandhi is understood to have been asked to appear earlier.

Apart from the three Congress leaders including Vivek Tankha (Madhya Pradesh), P Chidambaram (Tamil Nadu) and Jairam Ramesh (Karnataka), the remaining candidates have not been given tickets from their home states for Rajya Sabha elections.

The names of former Union minister Mukul Wasik, Rajasthan, and Vivek Tankha, Madhya Pradesh, were also put forward. These two were a part of the group of 23 leaders who had written to Congress president Sonia Gandhi in 2020 seeking a large scale organizational overhaul.

Recently, Congress disciplinary committee removed Jakhar from all party posts for going against "party lines".

Chidambaram, who heads the panel on economy constituted by Congress president Sonia Gandhi to lead discussions at the three-day 'Chintan Shivir' here, also said the time is ripe for a comprehensive review of fiscal relations between the Centre and the States.