Politics

His comments come amid a debate surrounding who would lead the alliance in the 2021 Assembly elections in Tamil Nadu after state BJP vice-president V P Duraisamy had asserted his party has the right to lead the combine in the polls.

The BJP, however, mocked him saying he should release a video about the "G-23", a reference to the 23 dissenters who wrote to the Congress chief seeking the party's overhaul.

The Congress letter came after an article in 'Time magazine', which the opposition party claimed "revealed" more information and "evidence of biases and a quid pro quo relationship" of Facebook India with the BJP.

Apart from Pawar, his current cabinet colleagues Jayant Patil and Dhananjay Munde were also present during the incident.

Sitharaman on Thursday had said the economy has been hit by the pandemic, which is an 'act of God', and it will see a contraction in the current fiscal.

Holding banners and placards, the activists raised slogans asking the Centre to postpone the examination till the coronavirus cases reduced substantially.

Workers of SP's student wing reached the Raj Bhawan on Thursday afternoon and raised anti-government slogans for organising NEET and JEE amid the pandemic at “considerable” risks to students. Police resorted to lathi-charge to control the protesters.

Agarwal, four-time BJP MLA from Gorakhpur, had last week clarified that he took to social media platform Twitter to force authorities to act.

The education minister, who is also the TMC secretary general, said the government is hopeful that the apex court would take the appeal into consideration.

Jitin Prasada, a former union minister, was among the signatories to the letter that sought an active and full-time party president among other changes.

Sanjay Jadhav sent his resignation letter to party President and Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray, alleging the party was being sidelined in his home constituency.

Keeping in mind the urgency of resolving the Naga political issue, the NPF WC appealed to the negotiating parties and the Centre to expedite the political negotiations and bring to a logical conclusion to usher in peace and tranquillity in the region.

All India Congress Committee Bihar in-charge Shaktisinh Gohil welcomed Ahmed back in the 'Congress family' over a year after he was suspended in May 2019.

Ahead of the August 27 meeting of the GST Council, the Congress leaders demanded that states be paid on time the compensation of 14 per cent as mandated by the GST Compensation Act.

Tankha made these remarks while refering to the letter written by 23 senior leaders to party chief Sonia Gandhi, asking her for “sweeping changes” in the party.

The Congress faces a crisis of leadership and voices that were silent or reticent till now have started becoming vocal. At such a time, the last thing the top Congress leadership would want is for their internal strife to be made public.