Tag: Rahul Gandhi

New Delhi: Mizoram Chief Minister Lal Thanhawla has said that the Congress party has unanimously decided to elevate Rahul Gandhi as its president as it needs a leader in place of Sonia Gandhi who faces health issues. Asked by NDTV if Congress Vice-President Rahul Gandhi should be elevated as party chief or there should be […]

Lucknow/New Delhi: Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi on Monday received the administration’s permission to visit his parliamentary constituency Amethi in Uttar Pradesh on October 4, officials said. The Congress leader, who was earlier denied permission to visit Amethi, would also be given protection by the district administration during his scheduled visit. Amethi District Magistrate Yogesh […]

Rajkot: Attacking the Narendra Modi government over its manner of implementing GST and on demonetisation, Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi termed the former “catastrophic” to small and medium businesses and the latter legalising the black money of “the country’s biggest thieves”. Interacting with businessmen, intellectuals and entreprenuers in this Gujarat business hub late Tuesday, he said […]

New Delhi:Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi on Sunday thanked External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj for acknowledging the contribution of Congress governments in nation building. “Sushmaji, thank you for finally recognising Congress governments’ great vision and legacy of setting up IITs and IIMs,” said Gandhi on Twitter. In her address at the UN General Assembly on […]

Princeton: Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi said that anger was building up in India against Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government over its failure in creating jobs. People who had voted the Congress-led United Progressive Alliance (UPA) out in 2014, were now going to get angry against the ruling BJP-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) in the […]

Lucknow: Dozens of posters describing local MP and Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi as “missing” have come up in his Amethi parliamentary constituency in Uttar Pradesh. The posters carry the Gandhi scion’s picture, written below which is a reward for anyone who could trace their missing MP. The posters, however, are not attributed to any […]

Ahmedabad: A Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) youth wing leader was arrested on Saturday in connection with the attack on Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi’s car when he was visiting north Gujarat’s flood-affected Banaskantha district on Friday. The action comes after 18 hours of night-long dharna and demonstration by Congress leaders and scores of district level […]

New Delhi: Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi, who had taken a break to visit his 93-year-old maternal grandmother in Italy, has returned after almost three weeks. Gandhi on Saturday attended the launch of the commemorative publication of the Congress party’s organ “National Herald”, which was attended by President Pranab Mukherjee, former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh […]

New Delhi: Congress Vice-President Rahul Gandhi will take a break from the rough and tumble of Indian politics to visit his 93-year-old maternal grandmother in Italy. “Will be travelling to meet my grandmother and family for a few days. Looking forward to spending some time with them,” Gandhi said on Twitter. Will be travelling to meet […]

Bhopal: Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi on Thursday sent his security personnel into a tizzy after he took a bike ride to reach Mandsaur in Madhya Pradesh where police shot dead five protesting farmers. Gandhi entered Madhya Pradesh by car from Rajasthan in a cavalcade of Congress leaders and activists. As he entered Neemuch district, […]

New Delhi: Congress Vice-President Rahul Gandhi is likely to be elevated as party chief at the culmination of party’s organisatonal polls in October, party sources said on Tuesday. Congress President Sonia Gandhi may step down ahead of Rahul’s likely elevation. The party on Tuesday released a schedule for the organisational elections which entail election of Congress […]

New Delhi: Despite being denied permission for a visit, Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi on Saturday left for Uttar Pradesh’s violence-hit Saharanpur district where caste conflict has left two dead and scores injured. Gandhi left from Delhi with senior Congress leaders Ghulam Nabi Azad and Raj Babbar. He is travelling by road after his chopper […]

New Delhi: The Delhi High Court on Friday declined to entertain a plea by Young Indian Pvt Ltd (YI), of which Congress President Sonia Gandhi and Vice President Rahul Gandhi are the main stakeholders, challenging Income Tax notices served to the company — clearing the decks for an IT probe. The case stems from a […]

Bhubaneswar: Setting the tone for the 2019 elections, All India Congress Committee (AICC) president Rahul Gandhi today ripped apart the ruling-BJD over corruption, employment and farmers’ issues during his visit to the State today. Addressing a public gathering at Tamando in Bhubaneswar today, the AICC chief said that the Naveen Patnaik-led government in Odisha is […]

Bhubaneswar: The newfound enthusiasm among Odisha Congress cadres following the success in the recently concluded Assembly Elections is continually being undermined by infighting fuelled by the issue surrounding the removal Srikant Jena from party’s manifesto committee. While Jena and Odisha Congress chief Niranjan Patnaik had been at loggerheads, senior leader Kanhu Charan Lenka and Krushna […]