Why has the Congress been unable, over the last eight years, to challenge the Bharatiya Janata Party on the turf of nationalism? After all, the Congress is the party that won India its freedom, shaped...

Wise words have meaning only when they result in action. The Congress does not seem to have made that connection. Had it done so, then the party’s nominations for the Rajya Sabha would have refl...

The 161st birth anniversary of Pandit Motilal Nehru, twice president of the Indian National Congress — 1919 and 1928 — fell on May 6, 2022. Motilal Nehru was a great parliamentarian, ...

More than five decades ago, from the mid-1960s to the early-1970s to be precise, the world was preoccupied with the war being waged by the United States of America in Vietnam. The opposition to that w...

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The Congress has decided to get its act together. The message from the Chintan Shivir shows a determination to return as a united force after continued electoral defeats and internal discontent. Of th...

The fact that a political party, whose members had once included Mahatma Gandhi and Jawaharlal Nehru, sought to employ the services of a political consultant sans ideology to revive its fortunes demon...

Less than a quarter of the way into the Congress’s now neutered negotiations with Prashant Kishor on defining a course out of the bottomless bogs, Rahul Gandhi, the former and who-knows-somedaym...

Calcutta High Court lawyers of the Congress legal cell on Wednesday showed black flags to party leader and former Union minister P. Chidambaram for holding brief for a company that bought shares of Me...

Days after criticizing his own party, Gujarat Congress leader Hardik Patel praised the ruling BJP for its "decision-making capacity", which he said is lacking in the leadership of the Opposi...