India, Dec. 29 -- Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge on Sunday asserted that the Congress is an ideology and ideologies never die, on the 140th Foundation Day of the party.

Addressing party leaders and workers at the Indira Bhawan headquarters of the party, he said India has become the world's largest democracy due to the great leaders of the Congress.

"Today, on Foundation Day, I want to clearly say one thing to those who say 'the Congress is finished'. I want to tell them that our power may be less, but our spine is still straight. We have not compromised; not with the Constitution, not with secularism and not with the rights of the poor. We may not be in power, but we will not bargain," he said.

Noting that the Congress has never...