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VD Satheesan, KC Venugopal, Ramesh Chennithala TIRUVANANTHAMPURAM: Congress’ battle for Kerala CM crossed from closed-door bargaining to open-street mobilisation on Thursday as rival camps staged demonstrations, mounted flex-board offensives and pressed competing claims before AICC observers tasked with choosing the state’s next helmsman. A power struggle erupted despite Congress-led UDF sweeping 103 seats in the…
CHENNAI: “You called Union minister Ravneet Singh Bittu a traitor because he had crossed over to BJP from Congress. Now consider this. You called M K Stalin on Tuesday afternoon and said, ‘I am with you’. The next morning, you defected from the alliance and jumped to the side you had contested against. Rahul Gandhi…
NEW DELHI: The Congress is expected to finalise its chief ministerial pick for Kerala by Sunday after newly elected MLAs and senior leaders conveyed their views with AICC observers following the Congress Legislature Party (CLP) meeting in Thiruvananthapuram on Thursday. The United Democratic Front (UDF), which secured a decisive victory with 102 seats in the…
NEW DELHI: Poll results show Congress saw a notable number of Muslim candidates register victory in the assembly elections, with 18 out of 19 party MLAs in Assam being Muslims. Kerala’s victorious UDF has 30 Muslim MLAs, with eight from Congress and the rest (22) from its ally IUML. The two winning Congress candidates in…
CHENNAI/NEW DELHI: Congress snapped on Wednesday its 11-year alliance with the DMK and threw its weight behind TVK, deepening fissures in INDIA bloc after DMK’s rout in Tamil Nadu. AICC in-charge Girish Chodankar met TVK chief C Joseph Vijay and pledged support of Congress’s five MLAs. “Congress-TVK alliance will continue for local body polls and…
VD Satheesan, KC Venugopal, Ramesh Chennithala THIRUVANANTHAMPURAM: The contest to pick Congress legislature party chief in Kerala entered a decisive stretch Wednesday as AICC observers Ajay Maken and Mukul Wasnik reached the state to sound out newly elected MLAs. Senior state functionaries have been asked to be in New Delhi after Thursday’s meeting, with the…
Assam once cheered Gaurav Gogoi as “amar lora” (our son) when he stepped into Jorhat during the 2024 Lok Sabha elections, embracing him as a son of the soil. Gogoi was not only the deputy leader of the opposition in the Lok Sabha but also the party’s chief ministerial face and the living legacy of…
TVK chief Vijay meets Governor Rajendra Arlekar, stakes claim to form govt in Tamil Nadu NEW DELHI: Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam (TVK) chief Vijay on Wednesday met Tamil Nadu governor Rajendra Vishwanath Arlekar to stake claim to form the next government after his two-year-old party emerged as the single largest in the recent assembly elections. In…
NEW DELHI: Congress on Wednesday extended its support to actor-turned-politician Vijay’s TVK after it emerged as the single largest party in the Tamil Nadu assembly elections, but failed to cross the majority mark.In a letter, the party which won 5 seats in the 243-membered assembly, said that its support will be conditional upon the TVK…
Rahul Gandhi, Vijay, Stalin NEW DELHI: Cracks within the INDIA bloc came into sharp focus after the Tamil Nadu verdict, as the MK Stalin-led Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam lashed out at its ally, Congress, for backing actor-politician Vijay and his party Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam. The DMK termed the Congress’ move “backstabbing,” signalling serious strain within the…
