Young Leadership In Congress

If Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot publicly announces that he is not a contender for the CM post and will promote young leadership, the Congress will surely retain power in Rajasthan, party MLA Bharat Singh Kundanpur said on Wednesday.

Has the Congress given up on North India to invest its political capital in reinventing itself as a South-first party under the leadership of Rahul Gandhi? I would argue that it has.

The 44-year-old former union minister, who in 2004 became the youngest MP in the country at the age of 26, said that over half of party leaders are below 50 years of age and this will be reflected in the selection of Chief Ministers as well.

Haryana Congress leader Kuldeep Bishnoi today said there is a sense of despair among party workers over the treatment meted out to young leaders like Jyotiraditya Scindia and Sachin Pilot, and also urged the leadership to promote mass leaders in every state in the fight against the BJP.

Amid the crisis in the Congress government in Rajasthan, senior BJP leader and former Lok Sabha speaker Sumitra Mahajan said young leadership should not be neglected in politics and claimed her party had started thinking in this direction.

With Sachin Pilot now lost to the Congress, the party notorious for its unwavering commitment to its First Family, the Gandhis, is, atypically, bristling at their leadership, a style of operation that has in three months driven away two bright, young stars - first Jyotiraditya Scindia and now the politician who is credited with resurrecting the par...

The country's grand old party, the Congress, already struggling with a leadership vacuum at the top, dwindling presence across the country and a crisis for its government in Madhya Pradesh, is likely to have another battle on its hands soon. The simmering resentment between the party's old guard and the new has surfaced with a vengeance after the e...

Lack of clarity over leadership after Rahul Gandhi's resignation is hurting the Congress, senior leader Shashi Tharoor said on Sunday, adding that the way forward for the party could be opening up all key posts, including the CWC membership, to fresh elections which would help legitimise the incoming set of leaders.

The Congress has tweeted its best wishes to Kamal Nath, naming him as the Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh, after a tense race for the state's top post. The announcement came shortly after Mr Nath reached Bhopal after day-long meetings with party chief Rahul Gandhi. That his young rival Jyotiraditya Scindia has accepted the decision was hinted at b...

Rahul Gandhi's promotion to president of the Congress should not be judged by outsiders as a travesty of democracy, Pranab Mukherjee told NDTV today, describing the 47-year-old No 2 in his party as "a young man" with the ability "to respond to change, to adapt, to adjust".

If Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot publicly announces that he is not a contender for the CM post and will promote young leadership, the Congress will surely retain power in Rajasthan, party MLA Bharat Singh Kundanpur said on Wednesday.

Has the Congress given up on North India to invest its political capital in reinventing itself as a South-first party under the leadership of Rahul Gandhi? I would argue that it has.

The 44-year-old former union minister, who in 2004 became the youngest MP in the country at the age of 26, said that over half of party leaders are below 50 years of age and this will be reflected in the selection of Chief Ministers as well.

Haryana Congress leader Kuldeep Bishnoi today said there is a sense of despair among party workers over the treatment meted out to young leaders like Jyotiraditya Scindia and Sachin Pilot, and also urged the leadership to promote mass leaders in every state in the fight against the BJP.

Amid the crisis in the Congress government in Rajasthan, senior BJP leader and former Lok Sabha speaker Sumitra Mahajan said young leadership should not be neglected in politics and claimed her party had started thinking in this direction.

With Sachin Pilot now lost to the Congress, the party notorious for its unwavering commitment to its First Family, the Gandhis, is, atypically, bristling at their leadership, a style of operation that has in three months driven away two bright, young stars - first Jyotiraditya Scindia and now the politician who is credited with resurrecting the par...

The country's grand old party, the Congress, already struggling with a leadership vacuum at the top, dwindling presence across the country and a crisis for its government in Madhya Pradesh, is likely to have another battle on its hands soon. The simmering resentment between the party's old guard and the new has surfaced with a vengeance after the e...

Lack of clarity over leadership after Rahul Gandhi's resignation is hurting the Congress, senior leader Shashi Tharoor said on Sunday, adding that the way forward for the party could be opening up all key posts, including the CWC membership, to fresh elections which would help legitimise the incoming set of leaders.

The Congress has tweeted its best wishes to Kamal Nath, naming him as the Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh, after a tense race for the state's top post. The announcement came shortly after Mr Nath reached Bhopal after day-long meetings with party chief Rahul Gandhi. That his young rival Jyotiraditya Scindia has accepted the decision was hinted at b...

Rahul Gandhi's promotion to president of the Congress should not be judged by outsiders as a travesty of democracy, Pranab Mukherjee told NDTV today, describing the 47-year-old No 2 in his party as "a young man" with the ability "to respond to change, to adapt, to adjust".