Finally, the Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, the sister of Congress president Rahul Gandhi, daughter of Sonia Gandhi made her entry to politics. The big step by Congress has been taken ahead of the national election scheduled on May 2019. It can be dubbed as "Brahmastra" or a trump card of Congress, when Priyanka Gandhi Vadra will debut as the party's general secretary in charge of the eastern part of Uttar Pradesh. She stands against the ruling BJP's top two mascots, Prime Minister Narendra Modi - whose constituency Varanasi will be in her share - and Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi, his predecessor Manmohan Singh, Congress President Rahul Gandhi and UPA Chairperson Sonia Gandhi were among those who paid tributes to late Prime Minister Indira Gandhi on her 34th death anniversary on Wednesday.

Political parties are gearing up for the elections scheduled in the five states – Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Chhattisgarh, Mizoram and Telangana. Election Commission has announced the dates and the parties are doing two type of campaigns – on social media and on field – to lure the voters.

Indira Gandhi declared the Emergency in 1975, plonk in the middle of the most intense phase of the Cold War. Détente was going so badly for the Americans that stand up comedians in Washington were comparing it to a wife swapping party "from where you return alone".

Amid the discussion about Emergency that was declared in the year 1975, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said that the legendary singer Kishore Kumar had been suppressed during the Emergency. Modi renewed a long-forgotten episode of a Bollywood’s popular personality who stood up to dictatorial powers. “Kishore Kumar isn’t willing to co-operate. You should speak to him directly,” one of Bollywood’s biggest producers, G P Sippy, told officials of the Information & Broadcasting Ministry in Mumbai in April 1976.

Noting former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi had publicly condemned the excesses during Emergency several times, the Congress on Monday said that the current situation in the country is worse than what it was during that time.

Congress President Rahul Gandhi has said his grandmother and then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi told him she will be killed and that he told his father Rajiv Gandhi that he may meet a similar fate.

Contradicting what Prime Minister Narendra Modi has been saying on the Narmada issue, former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Thursday said that while he was heading the UPA government at the Centre, Modi who was Gujarat Chief Minister never discussed the Narmada issue with him whenever they met.

Congress party's highest decision-making body, the Congress Working Committee (CWC), will meet on Monday to chart out the schedule for the election of the Congress President, that will see the elevation of Vice President Rahul Gandhi to the party's top post.

"Prime Minister Narendra Modi spoke about remembering the Emergency, we remember the Emergency, we haven't forgotten. But we also ask him to remember that we are facing an undeclared emergency.