Rahul Gandhi offered to resign as Congress president, but working committee rejected it, says party

The Congress Working Committee passed a resolution for a complete overhaul and a detailed restructing at every level of the party.

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· 42 minutes ago

Highest number of women MPs – and other key facts about the new Lok Sabha

The representation of women MPs has gone up but still remains only 14%.

PRS Legislative Research

· 6 hours ago

Why was Congress routed in 3 states it won 6 months ago? Here’s what party leaders are scared to say

Overconfidence, unfulfilled promises to farmers and the ‘Modi factor’ cost them in Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh.

Akash Bisht

· 8 hours ago

The big news: Congress Working Committee meet to review poll debacle begins, and 9 other top stories

Other headlines: The prime minister resigned ahead of a parliamentary meeting on Saturday, and at least 19 died in a fire at a tutorial centre in Surat.

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· 8 hours ago

TRS swept Telangana 6 months back. What explains its shock defeats to BJP in 4 Lok Sabha seats?

Once the BJP realised last year that Chief Minister Chandrashekar Rao was not interested in an alliance with it, it set its organisational machinery in motion.

Sruthisagar Yamunan

· 9 hours ago

2019 results: Eight first-time Lok Sabha MPs to watch out for

At least 300 new members will be joining the Parliament this year.

Aarefa Johari

· 11 hours ago

Not only communalism, the communist collapse played a key role in BJP’s rise in Bengal

Trinamool Congress increased its vote share in this election, meaning it didn’t lose its Hindu vote. The BJP’s gains came almost entirely from the Left Front.

Shoaib Daniyal

· Yesterday · 09:49 pm

In Haryana, demonetisation ended acche din for the plywood industry and its workers

Some labourers have had to switch to construction and other industries while others are making ends meet with half of what they used to earn.

Manoj Thakur, Indiaspend.com

· Yesterday · 08:30 pm

‘Ideology of Mahatma Gandhi’s killer has won,’ says Digvijaya Singh on Pragya Thakur’s victory

Singh made these remarks a day after he lost to Thakur, who made her electoral debut in the Lok Sabha elections.

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· Yesterday · 07:06 pm

Ravi Shankar Prasad defeats former BJP colleague Shatrughan Sinha in Patna Sahib constituency

Sinha, who had represented the seat since its formation in 2008, lost to the Union law minister by 2.84 lakh votes.

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· Yesterday · 01:45 pm

‘A new dawn for Amethi’: Smriti Irani thanks people of UP seat for electing her

The Union minister defeated Congress President Rahul Gandhi by a margin of 55,120 votes.

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· Yesterday · 12:38 pm

2019 election results: TRS chief K Chandrasekhar Rao’s daughter unseated in Nizamabad

Kavitha Kalvakuntla lost to Arvind Dharmapuri of the Bharatiya Janata Party by 70,875 votes.

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· Yesterday · 12:08 pm