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Shashi Tharoor slams BJP over Manipur situation, calls for imposition of President's rule

Senior Congress leader Shashi Tharoor on Sunday said the voters of Manipur are feeling "grossly betrayed" just a year after putting the BJP in power and called for the imposition of President's rule in the state that has witnessed violent clashes. Read further on Dynamite News:

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HowTheLightGetsIn Festival 2023 preview: The event looking to overhaul the UK’s ‘suspicion of philosophy’

Louis Chilton looks ahead to the 2023 philosophy and music event in Hay-on-Wye, and speaks to the festival’s founder Hilary Lawson

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Karnataka polls: Sonia, Rahul, Kharge, Shettar in Congress' list of 40 star campaigners

Congress heavyweights, including the party's national president Mallikarjun Kharge, UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi, Rahul Gandhi, Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, state chief DK Shivakumar, LoP Siddaramaiah, Shashi Tharoor former BJP leader and deputy chief minister Jagadish Shettar, among others, featured in the party's list of star campaigners for the May 10 Assembly…

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An elegant retelling of an extraordinary life: Revisiting Shashi Tharoor’s book on Ambedkar

The life, struggle and work of Dr BR Ambedkar has of late engaged wide-ranging scholarly reflections as well as biographies. In the last few weeks alone, for instance, such exercises have ranged from an account of expansive breadth to the specific focus of an academic study.

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"Cong a respectable alternative to misgovernance in Bengaluru": Shashi Tharoor

Hitting out at Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai-led BJP government in Karnataka, senior Congress leader Shashi Tharoor on Sunday said people of the poll-bound southern state have endured misgovernance in the last four years. Read further on Dynamite News:

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Indian opposition leader's speeches in Britain cause ructions at home

For the past fortnight, India's ruling Bharatiya Janta Party (BJP) and the Congress, the main opposition, have been engaging in a war of words in parliament over Congress leader Rahul Gandhi's remarks on Indian democracy during a recent visit to London.

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"It is damaging to Indian democracy": Shashi Tharoor on move to disqualify Rahul Gandhi

Senior Congress leader Shashi Tharoor on Sunday wondered whether it was good for the democracy of this country when a principal opposition leader is not allowed to raise his voice in Parliament. Read further on Dynamite News:

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Reactions to India’s Rahul Gandhi losing parliament seat

Opposition leaders condemn Gandhi’s disqualification and accuse PM Narendra Modi’s government of ‘killing democracy’.

Al Jazeera

Several Congress leaders slam disqualification of Rahul Gandhi as Lok Sabha MP

Many congress leaders have reacted sharply over Rahul Gandhi's disqualification as Lok Sabha MP. Must read further on Dynamite News:

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Parliament Budget Session: Meeting of leaders from like-minded opposition parties underway

A meeting of leaders from like-minded opposition parties is underway at the office of LoP Rajya Sabha Mallikarjun Kharge in Parliament to chalk out the strategy for the floor of the House on Monday, All India Congress Committee (AICC) informed. Read further on Dynamite News:

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Shashi Tharoor: Rahul Gandhi never demanded foreign forces to save our democracy

Congress MP Shashi Tharoor has said that the Wayanad MP never demanded foreign forces to save our democracy. Read further on Dynamite News:

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Shashi Tharoor: "Rahul Gandhi hasn't said anything that requires an apology"

As the BJP continues to demand an apology from Congress leader Rahul Gandhi for his remarks in London on democracy in India, party MP Shashi Tharoor said that Gandhi has not said anything that requires an apology. Read further on Dynamite News:

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The global leadership India needs

India, like China, takes enormous pride in its civilisation's scale and antiquity -- and rightly so. But such pride can also lead to a complacent and sometimes dangerous insularity. Since gaining independence from the British Empire 75 years ago, India has mostly looked inward, focusing on improving the welfare of…

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‘Unsurprising’: What the papers say about Mallikarjun Kharge’s election as Congress president

Congress leader Mallikarjun Kharge won the party’s presidential election on Wednesday. He was up against party MP Shashi Tharoor. The party’s election authority chairman Madhusudan Mistry announced that Kharge had received 7,897 of the 9,385 polled votes and Tharoor 1,072.

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The Guardian - UK

India’s Congress party appoints first non-Gandhi president in 24 years

Mallikarjun Kharge, a Gandhi loyalist, aims to lead fightback against Narendra Modi’s BJP

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Mallikarjun Kharge elected president of India’s Congress party

Mallikarjun Kharge, 80, defeats Shashi Tharoor to become the first Dalit Congress president.

The Independent UK

India's opposition Congress party elects new president

India’s main opposition Congress party has elected Mallikarjun Kharge as its new president in a contest in which the Nehru-Gandhi family, which has led the party for more than two decades, did not compete

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India's Congress elects first non-Gandhi chief in 24 years

India's opposition Congress party declared veteran leader Mallikarjun Kharge its new chief on Wednesday, the first person from outside the influential Nehru-Gandhi family to hold the beleaguered party's presidency in 24 years.

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Politics: New Congress President Will Decide My Role, Says Rahul Gandhi On Appointing New Party Chief

MP Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday said the president was the supreme authority in the Congress and whoever got elected to the post would decide on the way forward (for the party). Read more on Dynamite News:

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Mallikarjun Kharge Kharge Elected As Congress President; First Non-Gandhi In 24-Year

Mallikarjun Kharge on Wednesday won Congress Presidential Elections against Shashi Tharoor. Read more on Dynamite News:

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Polling Concludes For Congress Presidential Election; Counting On 19 October

Voting ended for Congress presidential elections on Monday with the delegates casting their vote to choose the party's next chief between former union ministers Mallikarjun Kharge and Shashi Tharoor. Read more on Dynamite News:

The Independent UK

India's Congress begins vote to elect new party president

India’s main opposition Congress party is looking beyond the dominant Nehru-Gandhi family to elect its next leader

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Congress Presidential Election: Jairam Ramesh Hails Polls As Historic

Jairam Ramesh said that the Congress is the only political party that has elections for the post of president and also the only one to have a TN Seshan-like central election authority chairman in Madhusudan Mistry. Read more on Dynamite News:

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Congress Presidential Election: Sonia Gandhi, Priyanka Gandhi Cast Their Vote

Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra also accompanied her mother Sonia Gandhi and cast her vote. Read more on Dynamite News:

Reuters

Veteran of India's opposition Congress expected to win leadership race

Members of India's opposition Congress party voted on Monday to elect its first head in nearly 25 years from outside the Nehru-Gandhi dynasty of leaders, with a veteran loyal to the family expected to win.

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