Speaking at the launch of his book, 'Pride, Prejudice, and Punditry', Tharoor said that it was a flaw of the parliamentary system that "creates opportunity for those who are divisive".
Reports suggest that Pawan Agrawal, the ex- district president was speaking about Health Minister TS Singh Deo. Congress Minority Cell district President Iftikhar Hasan immediately jumped onto the stage and pushed the leader away, following which the brawl went ugly.
During preliminary investigation, it was found that unidentified people entered the residence of former Congress district general secretary Kamlesh Narayan Sharma through a window on Friday night and bludgeoned him to death with an iron rod.
In a tweet, Gandhi quoted a news report that price rise has hit common people hard with petrol becoming dearer by Rs 2.35 and diesel by Rs 3 in 11 days.
"It is a victory of farmers and they are being paid for their hard work. The govt failed as they kept postponing date of procurement," the Congress leader added.
However, dates of the visit of Rahul Gandhi have not been finalised yet, but he may go on the onset of 2nd week of October and get a sense of state politics.
The issue prompted the police to register a case against 27 persons, including the senior Congress leader Pramod Tiwari and his daughter.
Their son Rohit, who was sleeping with his family on the first floor, informed police.
The Congress has lost the highest number of its electoral candidates to other parties in the past seven years with the BJP emerging the biggest gainer since it came to power at the Centre in 2014
Congress leader Sachin Pilot on September 1 slammed the Central Government over its National Monetisation Pipeline policy. He said that the Centre only believes in "marketing and branding".
The former home minister said he was not sure that one can go to the extent of saying that the entire electoral mandate of 2019 was vitiated by the "unlawful snooping" but added that it may have "helped" the BJP to score that victory which has been "tainted" by the allegations.
Ajay Maken on Sunday said there is no contradiction among the party's leaders in Rajasthan on the issue of cabinet reshuffle.
K C Venugopal on Thursday moved a privilege motion against Minister of State for Health Bharati Pravin Pawar for “misleading” the parliament on deaths due to shortage of oxygen.
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Friday signalled a shift in his social media outreach, going from mostly commentative to conversational with this simple poser: “I’m wondering what you guys are reading these days?”
The Maharashtra government has appointed a high-level committee headed by state DGP Sanjay Pandey to probe the phone-tapping allegations levelled by state Congress chief Nana Patole.
Senior Congress leader P Chidambaram on Tuesday said the answer to this "crisis" is to spur demand by putting money in the hands of the people.
Days after G-23 leader M Veerappa Moily stressed the need for a "major surgery" on the party to make it electorally more competitive, Khurshid said these "wonderful phrases" are not the answer as party leaders need to sit down and come up with solutions to the challenges that have arisen in the last 10 years.
An 80-year-old, Indira Hridayesh was MLA from Haldwani. She passed away at the Uttarakhand Sadan in the national capital.
During a video-conferencing interaction, Congress Leader P Chidambaram highlighted economical situation of the country amid COVID crisis and said that the 2020-21 is the "darkest year" of the economy in four decades.
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi blamed PM Modi for the second wave of COVID-19 and said "his 'nautanki' is the reason behind this."
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