About 2.27 lakh people have been shifted to 1,551 relief camps, Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan said
Rahul Gandhi was appointed as Congress president on December 16, 2017 and his tenure ended on Saturday after his resignation on May 25
Sources said a number of leaders, including state chiefs and MPs, backed Rahul Gandhi to continue on the post despite his refusal to reconsider his resignation
The announcement was made after Congress Working Committee met on Saturday
The CWC unanimously appealed to Gandhi to lead the party, saying he was the best person for the top post at the time when the government was "assaulting democracy and undermining people's rights"
'We cannot be part of this process,' Sonia Gandhi said
Senior party leader K.C. Venugopal on Friday said that the party will certainly get a new president on Saturday
The party had said last week that the Congress Working Committee will meet after the current session of Parliament that ends next Wednesday
According to party insiders, Rahul is of the view, which a close aide has espoused, that the party needs to "burn down to ashes" before it can rise again to reclaim its lost glory
He also backed Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh's assessment that a young leader would be more suitable to lead the Congress at this juncture
From its first day, the Cong-JDS alliance in Karnataka was a target for vested interests, said Rahul
The court of Chief Judicial Magistrate B H Kapadia last week had issued summons to Gandhi after finding that there was prima facie a case of criminal defamation against him
Forget finding a president with pan-India appeal, soon the party may not even have state level leaders of any consequence
The defamation suit was filed by the bank against Gandhi after he alleged that it had swapped Rs 750 crore in scrapped currency with valid notes within five days of announcement of demonetisation
Gandhi arrived in Ahmedabad to appear before a metropolitan court in a defamation suit filed against him by the Ahmedabad District Cooperative Bank and its chairman, Ajay Patel
Much of the solution today to the current challenge to the idea of India lies outside the Congress party, writes Yogendra Yadav
The prime minister, a former tea seller from Gujarat, makes a far more credible champion of the poor than a globe-trotting champagne socialist from Delhi with a famous last name
Neither Rahul, nor his sister Priyanka Gandhi have shown a political temperament. The party's vote share remained virtually stagnant between 2014 and 2019. Now it stares at a possible decline
Scindia, Deora and Rajasthan Deputy Chief Minister Sachin Pilot are close to outgoing Congress president Rahul Gnadhi and party general secretary (in-charge of Uttar Pradesh) Priyanka Gandhi Vadra
Any change in the party leadership must reflect India's societal reality, said Punjab CM