Senior party leader K.C. Venugopal on Friday said that the party will certainly get a new president on Saturday
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
The new leader also faces the uphill task of uniting the faction-ridden Delhi unit, which had already put Dikshit and other leaders, including P C Chacko, at loggerheads on a host of issues
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
This is the second day in a row during the current session of Parliament that the Rajya Sabha failed to transact any business.
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
In a four-page open letter, Gandhi also urged the Congress Working Committee (CWC) to entrust a group of people with the task of finding a new president as it would not be proper for him to do so
The names of leaders including Jyotiraditya Scindia, Home Minister Bala Bachchan, Umang Singhar and Ajay Singh have been making the rounds for some time now
Even if the mountain seems too high to climb, lying on the floor will take Rahul Gandhi nowhere. Nor will the reported plan to boycott the upcoming state polls till EVMs are replaced by paper ballot
Sources said Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot and his deputy Sachin Pilot went to meet Gandhi at his Tughlaq lane residence, but they only managed to meet Priyanka there