Tag: Rahul Gandhi

Gandhinagar/Shimla: The BJP on Monday just managed to hold on to power in Gujarat, edging past the half-way mark to clinch a sixth term in government, but wrested Himachal Pradesh from Congress with a comfortable majority. Overcoming initial setbacks in a seesaw battle, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) bagged 99 seats, seven more than the […]

New Delhi: Rahul Gandhi on Saturday formally took over as the new Congress President taking the mantle of the country’s oldest political party from his mother Sonia Gandhi. The process of his election as the new Congress chief was completed after the Central Election Authority President Mullapally Ramachandran handed over the Certificate of Election to […]

New Delhi: The Election Commission of India (ECI) on Wednesday shot off a notice to Congress President- elect Rahul Gandhi for allegedly violating the Model Code of Conduct (MCC) by giving election-related interviews to TV channels a day prior to the second phase polling in Gujarat, and asked him to respond by December 18. “The […]

Ahmedabad: Over 30 per cent voter turnout was recorded today in 89 seats in the first phase of assembly polls in Gujarat, where Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Congress’ heir-apparent Rahul Gandhi are locked in a bitter, high-stakes political duel after a 22-year reign of the BJP. There were reports of technical glitches in electronic […]

New Delhi: Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi on Saturday attacked Prime Minister Narendra Modi saying that the issue of ‘development’ has been missing from his speeches. “‘Vikas’ (development) is missing from the Prime Minister’s speeches this time. What is the reason,” Gandhi asked on the day of the first phase of polling in Gujarat. He […]

New Delhi: The Congress Working Committee (CWC) began a meeting here today to chart out a schedule for the election of the Congress President which will see elevation of Vice-President Rahul Gandhi to the party’s top post. The meeting was attended by Congress President Sonia Gandhi, Rahul Gandhi, former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh along with […]

New Delhi: Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi on Thursday launched a new unit for the unorganised sector workers called the All India Unorganised Workers’ Congress and said “it will strive to provide voice to those working in different parts of the country”. Interacting with the members of the Unorganised Workers’ Congress, Rahul Gandhi urged them […]

New Delhi: Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi on Sunday attacked the Narendra Modi-led central government after the prices of cooking gas was again hiked, asking him to “vacate the ‘Sinhasan’ (post of the Prime Minister)”. “Mehangi gas, mehanga rashan. Band karo khokala bhashan. Dam bandho kam do. Warna khali karo sinhasan (Expensive gas, expensive ration. Stop […]

Rae Bareli: Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi has reached Rae Bareli town in Uttar Pradesh today where over 20 have died in a boiler blast at a unit of National Thermal Power Corporation (NTPC). Gandhi met the family members of the victims, according to party sources. The death toll in the state-owned power plant blast […]

Jambusar: A bitter war of words has begun on Wednesday between Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi and BJP after the former’s sharp criticism of the government over a World Bank report on ease of doing business and the state of economy. While Gandhi rejected India’s improved rank in the latest World Bank report on ease […]

New Delhi: Former President Pranab Mukherjee, former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Congress Vice-President Rahul Gandhi paid rich tributes to former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi on her 33rd death anniversary here today . They paid floral tributes to the late Prime Minister at Shakti Sthal here. “We pay tribute to a dynamic leader; India’s first and only […]

New Delhi: Information and Broadcasting Minister Smriti Irani on Saturday took a dig at Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi over the rise in the number of people retweeting his messages and sought to link this with twitter accounts in Russia, Indonesia and Kazakhstan. However, Congress rejected the allegation as “factually wrong”. “Perhaps @OfficeOfRG planning to […]

New Delhi: Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi is likely to be elected as the party chief after Diwali, with the nearly six-month-long electoral process nearing completion and the schedule of the party President’s election to be announced soon. According to Congress sources, members of the party’s Central Election Authority (CEA), which is overseeing the election, […]

Vadodara: Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday stepped up his attack on Prime Minister Narendra Modi, accusing him of remaining silent on the controversy surrounding the tremendous increase in the turnover of a company owned by BJP chief Amit Shah’s son. There has been an amazing transition from ‘beti bachao, beti padhao’ to ‘beta […]

New Delhi: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Tuesday said the Congress is on the wane throughout the country and advised its Vice President Rahul Gandhi to give up Twitter politics and work on the ground. Referring to BJP’s success in the first phase of Maharashtra Gram Panchayat polls, Union Minister Prakash Javadekar said the […]