Tag: Gopalkrishna Gandhi

New Delhi: UPA’s Vice presidential candidate Gopalkrishna Gandhi met BJD MPs at Bhartruhari Mahtab’s residence here and thanked the regional party for its support ahead of the poll scheduled for August 5. MPs Baijayant Panda, Tathagat Satpathy, Prasanna Patasani, Pratyusha Rajeswari Singh, Anubhav Mohanty, Pratap Deb, Pinaki Mishra and others were present to meet Gandhi. […]

New Delhi: The Opposition Vice presidential candidate Gopalkrishna Gandhi is scheduled to meet BJD MPs in New Delhi today. Gandhi will meet the BJD MPs at 9 am and seek their vote during the vice presidential poll. Earlier, BJD supremo Naveen Patnaik had announced the party’s support to the Opposition vice presidential candidate Gandhi whereas […]

Bhubaneswar: UPA’s Vice Presidential candidate Gopalkrishna Gandhi will call on Members of Parliament from BJD on Tuesday and request them to cast votes in his favour during the Vice Presidential polls on August 5. The ruling BJD has asked its MPs to remain present during the meeting with Gandhi at New Delhi and pledge their […]

New Delhi: The Congress on Tuesday announced that 24th Rajiv Gandhi National Sadbhavana Award will be given to former West Bengal Governor Gopalkrishna Gandhi for his outstanding contribution towards promotion of communal harmony. “The Advisory Committee of the Rajiv Gandhi National Sadbhavana Award in its meeting held on July 28, 2018 decided that the 24th […]

New Delhi: Veteran BJP leader M. Venkaiah Naidu, who had humble origins in an agriculturist family in Andhra Pradesh, was on Saturday elected as the Vice of President of India, completing the quartet of top four constitutional posts — President, Vice President, Prime Minister and Lok Sabha Speaker — going to persons from BJP with […]

New Delhi: Opposition candidate Gopalkrishna Gandhi on Tuesday filed his nomination papers for the Vice Presidential election. Gandhi, a former West Bengal Governor and Mahatma Gandhi’s grandson, is pitched against NDA candidate M. Venkaiah Naidu. Gandhi’s name was proposed by former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, Congress President Sonia Gandhi and CPI-M leader Sitaram Yechuri. Last […]