“The work that Ken has done in Minnesota is a national ... The party suffered bruising losses in 2004, when George W. Bush was reelected and Republicans grew their majorities in Congress ...

The Trinamool Congress, the Samajwadi Party (SP), the Nationalist Congress Party (led by Sharad Pawar), Shiv Sena (Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray), and even the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD)—whose ...

and the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP). “We are, after all, a national party with an all-India outreach. These regional players should not forget that Congress can never be written off ...