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Sachin Pilot's supporters raise slogans outside All India Congress Committee office as Ashok Gehlot arrives
Ashok Gehlot on Thursday announced he was pulling out of the Congress presidential polls following the political turmoil in Rajasthan

Gujarat Assembly polls tough to win for Congress, but challenge not insurmountable, says Milind Deora
Deora, is the All India Congress Committee's (AICC) observer for the Gujarat Assembly elections, said the party had come close to winning Gujarat five years ago, riding on the anti-incumbency factor after demonetisation

Congress adds 2.6 crore new members in its digital drive; Sonia Gandhi enrols too
The party has embarked on the digital membership drive for the first time in its 135 year old history and it will form the basis for internal elections as well as organisation building, said AICC general secretary Organisation, K C Venugopal

Quit India Movement: History, significance and facts about Bharat Chhodo Andolan Day
The Quit India Movement was launched by Mahatma Gandhi on 8 August, 1942 at the Bombay session of the All India Congress Committee (AICC).

Congress releases names of 14 candidates for Puducherry, leaves out ex-CM V Narayanasamy
The Congress, which heads the Secular Democratic Alliance in the union territory, was allotted 15 of the 30 seats while its ally, the DMK was earmarked 13 constituencies

Sonia Gandhi appoints 3 AICC secretaries for Assam, Kerala in preparation of Assembly polls next year
A Congress statement said MLAs Anirudh Singh, Vikas Upadhyay, Prithviraj Prabhakar Sathe have been appointed AICC secretaries for Assam, while ex-MP P Viswanathan, ex-MLC Ivan D'Souza, PV Mohan have been appointed for Kerala

Congress to hold 35 press conferences, hold nationwide protests in November to highlight economic woes
Congress leader KC Venugopal in a statement on 23 October had said that protests would be organised in districts and state capitals, which would be culminating in a massive programme in the national capital.

Congress dissolves Gujarat unit's panel of office-bearers and exec committee; state party president Amit Chavda to remain in charge
The Congress on Wednesday dissolved its Gujarat unit, but asked the state Congress chief Amit Chavda to continue.

Infighting emerges again in Delhi Congress; 29 leaders write to Rahul Gandhi complaining about 'complete confusion' in state unit
The leaders in their letter said that by dissolving various Congress units in Delhi, the PCC is literally punishing thousands of dedicated workers and leaders, who worked very hard to resurrect the party in Delhi.

AICC rejects Bengal Congress president's resignation taking responsibility for Lok Sabha poll debacle, asks him to continue
West Bengal Congress president Somen Mitra submitted a letter of resignation from the post taking responsibility for the party's poor show in the Lok Sabha election, sources said on Tuesday.

Madhya Pradesh Congress Committee puts up poster in Bhopal appealing to Rahul Gandhi to appoint Jyotiraditya Scindia as next party leader
A day after Jyotiraditya Scindia resigned from the post of Congress' general secretary, posters emerged outside the party's state office in Bhopal appealing to Rahul Gandhi to appoint Scindia as the next party president. On Sunday, Scindia announced that he would step down from the post of party general secretary. Scindia had been appointed Congress' general secretary for West Uttar Pradesh ahead of the Lok Sabha elections.

Resignation of young leaders indicates Congress in process of reverting to archaic, self-defeating ways
The problem is not just the resignations, but the fact that the state of drift in Congress affairs that the leadership is unconscionably prolonging is having knock-on effects elsewhere

Rahul Gandhi's resignation as Congress chief raises more questions than answers for party, results in power vacuum
Rahul Gandhi has finally made official what has been reported (based on sources) for around a month

Rahul Gandhi resigns: Congress must go democratic way to pick new chief, handpicked president will be disastrous
Rahul Gandhi's resigns: If the Congress elects a new president through a process that is credible, or seen to be credible, he or she might just have enough firepower to oversee an overhaul of the party

Several Congress office-bearers quit as MP urges party members to give Rahul Gandhi free hand to restructure party
Office-bearers of the Congress, including Dipak Babaria and Girish Chodankar, resigned after MP Vivek Tankha quit as the chairman of the party's legal and human rights cell.

Suspense prevails over Congress presidency as Rahul Gandhi skips topic on birthday; lack of clarity affecting morale, say party workers
In his first meeting with party workers after Congress' defeat in the Lok Sabha elections on his birthday, Rahul Gandhi left them under a cloud of suspense over the status of his presidency

Delhi Congress leaders demand replacement of AICC chief PC Chako over heavy losses in Lok Sabha elections
A section of leaders in Delhi Congress have demanded replacement of AICC in-charge PC Chacko in the wake of Lok Sabha poll debacle

Congress' candidate for LS polls from Jaipur (Urban) Jyoti Khandelwal alleges 'internal conspiracy' led to her defeat
Differences in the Rajasthan Congress once again came to the fore on Tuesday with the party's Lok Sabha candidate from the Jaipur (Urban) segment claiming that an 'internal conspiracy' led to her defeat in the recently-held elections.

Lok Sabha Election 2019: Suspense in Wayanad over Rahul Gandhi's candidature even as Kerala Congress gears up
Since Rahul is projected as the next probable prime minister, Congress expects that people, the majority of them eke out a living from farming, will vote for him en masse.

AAP set to fight on issue of full statehood for Delhi, too late for talks of tie-up with Congress now, says senior leader Gopal Rai
On Wednesday, AAP national convener Arvind Kejriwal had proposed an alliance with the Congress in Haryana, saying his party needed no partnership in Delhi.