Sonia Gandhi

The elections for the post of the Congress president will be held next month. The filing of nominations for the post of the president begins in three days.Polling for the Congress president election will take place on October 17 and the results will be announced on October 19.

Thiruvananthapuram Congress MP Shashi Tharoor endorsed a petition by a group of young party members seeking reforms and a pledge by candidates for Congress chief to implement the party's Udaipur declaration. Tharoor shared the petition on Twitter, noting that over 650 people had signed it.

Amarinder Singh’s meeting with Union Home Minister Amit Shah on September 12 was being seen as the BJP’s final move to get Singh and his newly-floated party on board.He will also merge his newly-formed Punjab Lok Congress (PLC) with the saffron party.

Tejashwi Yadav's remarks come amid the opposition's efforts to unite ahead of the 2024 General Elections. Bihar Chief Minister C M Nitish Kumar stated during his visit to Delhi earlier this month that he met with Opposition leaders to unite and fight the saffron party in the 2024 Lok Sabha elections.

The videos that were shared on Thursday morning showed Rahul Gandhi, along with other party leaders, taking part in an event to hoist the national flag ahead of the planned footmarch.

During his speech, Ghulam Nabi Azad said, "The people of Jammu and Kashmir will decide the party's name and flag. I'll give my party a Hindustani name that everyone will recognise." Adding that he will always support the people of Jammu and Kashmir.

Sonia Gandhi, her son Rahul Gandhi and daughter Priyanka Gandhi Vadra are already abroad and visited her hometown.

The two Congress leader have told the Supreme Court that no allegations under Section 153B (Imputations, assertions prejudicial to national-integration) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) can be made against them and that they were selectively picked up, giving way a larger conspiracy behind the exercise.

Shashi Tharoor suggested adopting the United Kingdom model where the recent leadership race in the British Conservative Party has sparked global interest. A similar race in 2019 had seen Boris Johnson emerge on top among a dozen candidates who were contesting to replace Theresa May.

The CWC meeting came days after the resignations of party veteran Ghulam Nabi Azad and young leader Jaiveer Shergill. In his resignation letter, Azad lashed out at Rahul Gandhi for "demolishing the party's entire consultative mechanism".