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Priyanka Gandhi stood by victims of village clash: What next for her in UP

It was perhaps the first time the Gandhi scion was witnessed in full action outside Rae Bareli and Amethi, and beyond the social media landscape of Twitter

Jaipal Reddy: The orator, Congress leader who never compromised on values

Reddy's limited physical mobility due to polio never deterred him from achieving political heights and he served as a Lok Sabha MP for five terms

Senior Congress leader and former union minister Jaipal Reddy dies at 77

During the UPA-1 government, he held portfolios like urban development and culture

Congress slams PM Modi for keeping mum on Trump's Kashmir mediation offer

The Congress along with other opposition parties demanded that Prime Minister Narendra Modi should clarify whether there has been a shift in India's position of no third party involvement in the Kashmir issue after US President Donald Trump offered to mediate between India and Pakistan on the matter. Trump's offer to mediate on the Kashmir issue came as he met Prime Minister Imran Khan at the White House where the two leaders discussed a host of issues. India denied Trump's claim that Modi had asked him to mediate in resolving the Kashmir issue with Pakistan. External Affairs Ministry Spokesperson Raveesh Kumar tweeted, "We have seen @POTUS's remarks to the press that he is ready to mediate, if requested by India & Pakistan, on Kashmir issue. No such request has been made by PM @narendramodi to US President." Congress' chief spokesperson Randeep Surjewala said India has never accepted third party mediation in Jammu and Kashmir. "To ask a foreign power to mediate in J&K by PM ..

Letter to BS: Sheila Dikshit can be called a 'transformer' of Delhi

She was the CM of Delhi from 1998 till 2013 when Congress was ousted from power in Delhi by Arvind Kejriwal led AAP

Priyanka's Sonbhadra visit and the dynasty's fight against Cong's old guard

The brother and sister are keen, not just to put up a fight against the BJP, but also challenge the old guard currently led by senior leader Ahmed Patel in their party

Congress needs a president and drastic spring cleaning of party structure

Forget finding a president with pan-India appeal, soon the party may not even have state level leaders of any consequence

Rahul Gandhi has been unable to clean the Augean stable that's the Congress

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

Congress demise can make India a one-party state and that's not encouraging

It's possible that India has space for just one national idea: Once it was the Congress' fuzzy, syncretic inclusiveness; now it is Modi's Hindu nationalism

Why Ahmed Patel matters

He is the organic link between the Sonia Congress and the Rahul Congress