As the counting of votes began for bypolls in 15 states, Congress candidate for Raipur South Assembly by-elections Akash Sharma expressed confidence that people have voted for a change.
Delhi Congress President Devender Yadav, on Friday, slammed Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) national convenor Arvind Kejriwal for launching the “Revadi Par Charcha” campaign, calling it a desperate survival tactic by him to retrieve his “lost credibility”.
Congress on Friday appointed three observers, including former Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot and former Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel for Maharashtra, and senior party leader Tariq Anwar and two others for Jharkhand to oversee the post-election scenario in both the states.
J P Nadda was reacting to Congress chief Mallikarjun Kharge's letter to President Droupadi Murmu drawing her attention to the violence in the northeastern state.
In a fiery critique of the Trinamul Congress (TMC), BJP state president and Union minister of state for development of north eastern region, Sukanta Majumdar took to social media to condemn a viral video involving senior TMC leader and chief whip of the West Bengal Assembly, Nirmal Ghosh.
He also targeted Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge and said the party gets into trouble over its "outlandish promises".
Congress MLA and party's nominee for Kedarnath bypoll Manoj Rawat said if elected, he would raise the issue in the state assembly and seek answers from the state government for the reasons to dole out contracts to outsiders.
In a series of posts on X, he said: “The Congress Party is realising the hard way that making unreal promises is easy but implementing them properly is tough or impossible.”
Reacting to the advice of Congress National President Mallikarjun Kharge the state units of his party to announce guarantees aligned with their budgets, BJP leader Ravi Shankar Prasad demanded an apology from him as going by his own admission he and his party misled the public.
The controversy arising from Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath's remark, 'Batoge to Katoge' (divided, will perish), refuses to die down. On Friday, Congress State President Ajay Rai responded to the statement by saying, 'Nobody is dividing the people except the BJP.
