Nation

Senior Congress leader Shashi Tharoor on Thursday met party president Mallikarjun Kharge and Leader of Opposition Rahul Gandhi in New Delhi to address his grievances, after which he said “all is good” and that the leadership was “on the same page”, signalling a rapprochement ahead of the Kerala Assembly elections. The meeting, held in Kharge’s chamber in the Parliament House complex, lasted over one hour and forty-five minutes and followed weeks of reported disquiet between Tharoor and sections of the party’s Kerala leadership. “We had a discussion with my two party leaders, the LoP and the Congress president. We had…

The Bharatiya Janata Party-led Mahayuti alliance made a clean sweep of the municipal corporation elections in Maharashtra on Friday, with Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis terming the victory a “landslide mandate” attributed to the party’s “all-encompassing” Hindutva. The BJP-led Mahayuti alliance is set to come to power in 25 of the 29 municipal corporations, including Mumbai, where elections were held on January 15, Fadnavis said, addressing jubilant party workers in south Mumbai in the evening. Results of elections in all the 227 wards in Mumbai were declared around midnight. The BJP became the single largest party by winning 89 seats, while…

The Congress on Saturday launched its 45-day nationwide campaign, MGNREGA Bachao Sangram, protesting the repeal of the UPA-era rural employment law and its replacement with the VB-G RAM G Act. Press conferences were held across district headquarters to mark the beginning of the agitation, which will continue until February 25.   The party has demanded the withdrawal of the VB-G RAM G Act and the restoration of MGNREGA as a rights-based law in its original form, including the right to work and the authority of panchayats.   “Today, the Indian National Congress is launching the MGNREGA Bachao Sangram with a…