Tag: Rahul Gandhi

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Congress loses principal opposition-status in Odisha after poll debacle

Bhubaneswar: Not only saving its bastions, but Congress seems to be now struggling to save its base in Odisha as it lost the principal opposition status after party’s poor performance in the recently-concluded general elections. The grand old party could only win nine Assembly seats in Odisha. Taking moral responsibility of party’s drubbing defeat; Odisha […]

  • Friday, 30 April 2021
'Rahul to re-contest from Amethi in 2024'

New Delhi: Though he was defeated on home turf Amethi to BJP’s Smriti Irani, Congress President Rahul Gandhi will again contest from the seat in the 2024 Lok Sabha elections, a party leader said. The Congress leader, requesting anonymity, said that Gandhi will never leave Amethi. “He has done a lot of work in Amethi […]

  • Friday, 30 April 2021
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Congress top decision-making body meets to discuss LS rout

New Delhi: The Congress Working Committee (CWC) met on Saturday to discuss the reasons for the party’s abysmal performance across the country in the 2019 general elections. Foremost on the table is the challenge to keep the flock together in states like Karnataka and Madhya Pradesh, where efforts were on to destabilise the government. The […]

  • Friday, 30 April 2021
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CWC rejects resignation, but Rahul insists on stepping down

New Delhi: The Congress Working Committee (CWC) on Saturday rejected offer by party President Rahul Gandhi to resign in the wake of the debacle in the Lok Sabha elections but he has been insisting that his resignation is accepted and has not withdrawn his offer to quit. The CWC called for a thorough introspection, complete […]

  • Friday, 30 April 2021
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Op-Ed: Electorate Reject Dynasty

By Ashutosh Mishra Bhubaneswar: The most heartening aspect of 2019 verdict has been the near complete rejection of dynastic politics by the electorate. Nothing proves this better than the defeat of Congress president, Rahul Gandhi from the family borough of Amethi. He had inherited the seat from his father and former Prime Minister, Rajeev Gandhi […]

  • Friday, 30 April 2021
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Rahul Gandhi takes back offer to resign

New Delhi: Rahul Gandhi on Sunday took back his offer to quit as the Congress President, a proposal he made during the Congress Working Committee (CWC) meeting on Saturday following the party’s dismal show in the Lok Sabha elections, party sources said. The sources added that responsibility will be fixed for the party’s debacle in […]

  • Friday, 30 April 2021
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Modi, Rahul pays tribute to Nehru on 55th death anniversary

New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Congress President Rahul Gandhi on Monday paid tributes to the country’s first Prime Minister Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru on his 55th death anniversary. “Tributes to Pandit Jawaharlal Nehruji on his death anniversary. We remember his contributions to our nation,” Modi said in a tweet. Congress President Rahul Gandhi, UPA […]

  • Friday, 30 April 2021
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Smriti got Rahul's message 'loud and clear'

Amethi: When BJP MP Smriti Irani lost no time in reaching Amethi to meet the family of a former village head who had been murdered, she gave a strong message that she would take care of her constituency. Irani has defeated Congress President Rahul Gandhi in Amethi and when the latter conceded defeat, he asked […]

  • Friday, 30 April 2021
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CWC did not caste aspersions on any individual, discussed performance: Congress

New Delhi: The Congress said on Monday that the CWC meeting on Saturday held a collective deliberation on the partys performance in the Lok Sabha polls instead of casting aspersions on the role or conduct of any specific individual and any “conjectures, speculations, insinuations, assumptions” in the media about its deliberations were “uncalled for and […]

  • Friday, 30 April 2021
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Ready to be Congress leader in Lok Sabha: Tharoor

New Delhi: Senior Congress leader Shashi Tharoor has said that he is ready to take the responsibility of the Leader of the Congress party in the Lok Sabha if party offers him the job. “If offered, I am ready to be the Congress Lok Sabha leader,” Tharoor, elected for a third consecutive term as a […]

  • Friday, 30 April 2021
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Elections a victory for Modi, Rahul need not resign: Rajinikanth

Chennai: Actor-politician Rajinikanth on Tuesday termed the Lok Sabha election outcome a victory for one individual: Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Rajinikanth also said that Congress President Rahul Gandhi need not resign from his post owning responsibility for the party’s defeat. Speaking to reporters here, Rajinikanth said the victory in the 2019 general election was for […]

  • Friday, 30 April 2021
Rahul unlikely to be Leader of Congress in LS, may head CPP

New Delhi: Congress President Rahul Gandhi is unlikely to be the party leader in the Lok Sabha and the post may go to someone else as it happened in the previous Lok Sabha, party sources said on Tuesday. But Gandhi is expected to be the CPP leader. Two senior Congress General Secretaries IANS spoke to […]

  • Friday, 30 April 2021
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Sachin Pilot may quit Congress if Rahul resigns

Jaipur: With uncertainty looming over Rahul Gandhi continuing as Congress President, there is speculation that Sachin Pilot too may quit as Deputy Chief Minister and state Congress chief along with his team of MLAs, in case Gandhi quits his post. Party sources say Rahul Gandhi was instrumental in making Pilot as the state Congress chief […]

  • Friday, 30 April 2021
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IAF erects Rafale replica outside Air Chief's house, bang opposite Congress HQ

New Delhi: A replica of the Rafale fighter aircraft has been put up outside the official residence of Air Chief Marshal B.S. Dhanoa, which is attracting huge attention. The replica has come up right across from the Congress headquarters at 24, Akbar Road. The Rafale replica has replaced a Sukhoi SU-30 model. The Air Chief’s […]

  • Friday, 30 April 2021
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Sonia Gandhi remains Congress Parliamentary Party leader

New Delhi: UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi will continue as the Congress Parliamentary Party leader as the newly elected members of the party in Lok Sabha once again elected her as the leader of the CPP during their first meeting on Saturday here. Gandhi won the Rae Bareli seat from Uttar Pradesh by defeating the BJP’s […]

  • Friday, 30 April 2021
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