Prime Minister Narendra Modi criticized the Congress party, claiming it is influenced by the 'tukde tukde' gang and urban Naxals. He stated that today's Congress is not the same as during Mahatma Gandhi's time and accused it of harboring hatred and lacking patriotism.

India agendas' of the Congress leaders in their speeches abroad, without naming that party’s leader Rahul Gandhi, who is facing flak from the ruling dispensation for his remark in the US on scrapping

The Congress has allied with Farooq Abdullah's National Conference, which favours talks with Pakistan and restoration of Article 370.

India’s troubled region of Jammu and Kashmir saw a brisk turnout amid tight security as voters cast their ballots on Wednesday in the first regional legislative elections in a decade. The region, which has seen years of separatist violence and is at the centre of a dispute between India and Pakistan,

Prime Minister Narendra Modi took on the 'dynastic politics' of Congress, National Conference and People's Democratic Party (PDP) as he held rally in Srinagar in support of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) candidates.