The Congress President, Smt. Sonia Gandhi, has completed five years in office on April 6, 2003. The future of the party looked grim and its prospects dismal when she took the bold plunge fired by the urge to rescue the party from going into oblivion. These five years were marked by hard struggle and total commitment. A sheer miracle happened and the party rose virtually from its sick-bed as a new resurgent organization and won Assembly elections State-after-State. Today more than half of the total states are with the Congress, thanks to the exemplary stewardship of Smt. Sonia Gandhi.

One of the several new initiatives Smt. Gandhi has taken in these five eventful years was the first-ever Convention of the Block and District Congress Committee Presidents held in New Delhi on 28-29 March, 2003 followed by a massive public rally the next day. The action plan innunciated by Smt. Gandhi at the Convention will further strengthen the party in its run-up to the coming Assembly polls and the General election next year.

We have to remind the people of our country about the uniqueness of the Congress and the continued relevance of our philosophy and ideology, said the Congress president at the inaugural session of the two-day convention.....

The Congress party is fighting for the unity and striving to take care of the poor. This was the focal point in the deliberations of the two-day National Convention of the Block and District presidents : a report.....

The Congress President, Smt. Sonia Gandhi gave a new mantra to the grassroot workers at the conclusion of the convention saying, "No power in the world can block the progress of the organisation, that follows its principles and policies and moves with determination".....

The malacious BJP campaign against the Congress has failed miserably as the Congress’s viewpoint has been vindicated by the people and voted out BJP from power, state after state, says Anil Shastri.....

The two-day National Convention for the Block and District presidents in New Delhi was a most memorable event in the history of the Congress, says Capt. Davar.....

Smt. Archana Dalmia recalls how Smt. Sonia Gandhi plunged into politics and how meticulously she performed a political miracle by reviving the party.....

In the context of the US-UK aggression on Iraq Shri Natwar Singh poses questions to the Prime Minister in the Rajya Sabha.....

Shri Ashwani Kumar opines that the aggression on Iraq was without sanction of the UN and without legality.....

In his write-up "Towards a Culture of Peace", Shri Eduardo Faleiro makes a comparison between religious extremists of Jehadis and the Bajrang Dal.....

State News : Be prepared for Assembly Polls, says Ambika Soni.....

Ex-Servicemen Cell Report.....

Mahila Congress Report.....

AICC Diary.....

Book Review.....