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.

With over 450 leaders in attendance, the Shivir will have group discussions and brainstorming sessions for the grand old party, whose political strength is shrinking across the country. With its full-fledged government only in two states, the party is trying hard to win back its lost political fortune.

The decision to resume operation of the embassy from Kyiv came amid decisions by several Western powers to reopen their missions in the Ukrainian capital.  

The focus of Chintan Shivir is to formulate an action plan for the party, and steps to be taken to strengthen the organisation.

In her opening remarks, Sonia Gandhi said that the deliberations will be in six groups, which will take up political, economic, social justice, farmers, youth, and organizational issues.

Redrawing the electoral map of J&K, a 3-member Delimitation Commission earmarked 47 assembly seats for Kashmir division and 43 for Jammu in its final order submitted just a day before its two-year tenure was to end.

Addressing a press conference, Kishor emphasised that despite Lalu Yadav and Nitish Kumar rule in Bihar, the state is still treated as a backward one.

Prashant Kishor was keen to join the Congress and had desired to do so without any expectations but things didn't take off.

Congress sources said the eight-member group constituted by party president Sonia Gandhi to formulate its poll strategy for the 2024 Lok Sabha polls after Kishor's presentation took serious note of the poll arrangement signed by I-PAC with the TRS for the assembly elections.

Ahead of the Chintan Shivir, the Chief Minister of Rajasthan, Ashok Gehlot had met Sonia Gandhi, the President of the Congress Party.