Sitaram Kesri

'Sweeping changes' in Congress will be incomplete if party continues to piggyback on Nehru-Gandhi family

The last time voices of dissent emerged in Congress, three of its leaders broke away to form the Nationalist Congress Party

Chidambaram's response to Narendra Modi's dare misses mark: Nehru-Gandhi family has always dominated Congress

P Chidambaram was very economical with the truth when he responded to Narendra Modi’s dare to the Congress to make a non-Nehru-Gandhi family member its party president for five years.

Congress fact-checks Modi's Dalit jibe about Sitaram Kesri, says PM got it wrong; backward class leader was OBC

The Congress on Sunday responded to Prime Minister Narendra Modi's comment on former Congress president Sitaram Kesri, and clarified that Kesri belonged to the Other Backward Classes (OBC) category and was not a Dalit, like Modi claimed.

Narendra Modi in Chhattisgarh: PM claims Sitaram Kesri's tenure as Congress chief cut short for Sonia Gandhi

Narendra Modi claimed that Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Raman Singh had to face a lot of challenges from the then Congress-led government at the Centre.

Amit Shah says Narendra Modi's remark on past Congress presidents 'ruffled many feathers', calls party 'family enterprise'

Amit Shah on Sunday said the Congress had become more of a family enterprise aimed at dynastic service than a political party aimed at public service.

Rahul Gandhi boasts of visiting Atal Bihari Vajpayee first but forgets etiquette of keeping aside personal issues

It has been an unwritten code of Indian democratic polity that you don’t play politics over health and such other personal and sensitive matters of a leader of another party.

Sonia Gandhi's role in Congress will be undiminished after Rahul's elevation: M Veerappa Moily

Sonia Gandhi's role in Congress will remain "undiminished" even after Rahul's elevation as party president, senior party leader M Veerappa Moily said

Gujarat Congress passes resolution to elevate Rahul Gandhi as party president

The Gujarat Pradesh Congress Committee (GPCC) on Monday unanimously passed a resolution that party vice-president Rahul Gandhi be made the party's national president

Pranab Mukherjee says meeting Baba Ramdev in 2011 to dissuade him from launching fast was misjudgement

Pranab Mukherjee in the third volume of his autobiography, The Coalition Years-1996-2012, recalls some of the most discussed and controversial happenings from Indian political history

Pranab Mukherjee says Sitaram Kesri's ambition to become PM led to Gujral government's failure in 1997

Mukherjee released his latest of the trilogy, the first two volumes of his autobiography dealt with the Indira Gandhi era and the turbulent decade post-Indira.