The northeastern state has two Lok Sabha seats, West Tripura and East Tripura, and both are now held by the BJP.
The meeting is being attended by Maharashtra Congress chief Nana Patole, former state minister Balasaheb Thorat, Leader of Opposition in the assembly Vijay Wadettiwar, former chief ministers Ashok Chavan and Prithrviraj Chavan among others.
The All India Congress Committee (AICC) general secretary reached Shimla early on December 11 and went to her house in Chhabbra on the outskirts of the town where she will rest for the day, officials said.
Announcing the decision at the party headquarters here on December 5, AICC general secretary K C Venugopal said the swearing-in will take place on December 7 in Hyderabad.
Targeting the ruling Shiv Sena-BJP combine, he said it was unfortunate that discussions are on about who will be the chief minister when the state is facing challenges including the death of several patients at various government hospitals and other issues.
Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge appointed Chettri as the chief of the party's Sikkim unit and also set up a political affairs committee in the state, according to a statement.
In his address at a meeting of the Tamil Nadu Progressive Writers and Artists Association in Chennai on September 4, DMK leader Udhayanidhi likened Sanatan Dharma to coronavirus, malaria and dengue and said such things should not be opposed but destroyed.
Congress and the Opposition bloc, on August 7, broke out into celebrations after Congress leader and Wayanad MP, Rahul Gandhi, was re-instated into the Lok Sabha following the Supreme Court's orders dated August 4.
Targeting the BJP, AICC joint secretary in-charge of Youth Congress Krishna Allavaru told reporters at a press conference here, "We want to challenge the BJP on behalf of the people of Himachal Pradesh. They should seek vote not on their manifesto but on their report card”.
Congress leader Salman Soz, on behalf of Lok Sabha MP, Shashi Tharoor, wrote a letter to Central Election Authority chairman Madhusudan Mistry on October 19 alleging “extremely serious irregularities” in the conduct of the election process in Uttar Pradesh.
AICC general secretary Priyanka Vadra said this at the 'Parivartan Pratigya Rally' held at Thodo Maidan in Himachal Pradesh's Solan.
The former AICC president said his party upon coming to power would put in a strategy both at the national- and State-levels, which would ensure jobs for youngsters.
Mallikarjun Kharge said he entered the polls after senior and young leaders alike urged him to enter the fray.
The Thiruvananthapuram MP, however, asserted that he remains convinced of the party’s commitment towards ensuring that these elections take place in a free and fair manner.
"I have taken the nomination papers and most probably I will file my nominations tomorrow," Digvijaya Singh told reporters at the AICC headquarters.
Names of leaders like Kharge, a former Union minister and a Nehru-Gandhi family loyalist, are doing the rounds for the October 17 AICC presidential election for which the nomination process would continue till September 30.
The resignations were submitted just ahead of a Congress Legislature Party meeting on Sunday convened to select Rajasthan CM Ashok Gehlot's successor
The Congress has asserted that its internal democracy has no parallel in any other party and it is the only one to have a central election authority for organisational polls.
Gehlot became the first person to announce his candidature for the AICC presidential poll on Friday and said former president Rahul Gandhi has told him that no one from the Gandhi family should become the next party chief.
Shashi Tharoor reached the AICC headquarters here and spoke to Mistry at his office, a day before the Congress' central election authority is to issue the notification for the polls to elect the next Congress president.
Shashi Tharoor shared the petition on Twitter, which stated that it was an appeal to the candidates in the upcoming election of the Congress president, and said it had been signed by over 650 people so far.
AICC Jammu and Kashmir in-charge Rajini Patil alleged that the move to allow non-locals to vote in J-K was illegal and said the Congress would attend the all-party meeting convened over the issue by National Conference president Farooq Abdullah.
Gandhi appeared before the ED here for questioning in a money-laundering probe linked to the National Herald-Associated Journals Limited case.
Ajay Yadav, who is also chairman of the OBC department in the AICC, claimed that there are 62 lakh vacancies in the country in the government sector which needs to be filled.
The ministers were accompanied by Congress General Secretary in charge of Maharashtra, Mallikarjun Kharge and also senior Congress leader KC Venugopal along with AICC secretaries incharge of the State.