Tag: Rahul Gandhi

New Delhi: The Congress on Saturday said that it will not formally stake claim for the post of Leader of Opposition (LoP) in the Lok Sabha as it is two seats short of the required number of 54. The party also said that Rahul Gandhi will continue to be the Congress President. According to the […]

New Delhi: Congress President Rahul Gandhi, here on Saturday, asserted that his party’s 52 newly elected Lok Sabha members would work like a “pride of lions” to protect the Constitution and institutions. “The Congress may have just 52 Lok Sabha members, but we will work together like a pride of brave hearted lions to protect […]

New Delhi: Congress President Rahul Gandhi told party MPs on Saturday that the situation faced by the party workers was similar to that in the British period when it had no institutional support but it fought and won and is going to do so again. Addressing the first Congress Parliamentary Party meeting here after Lok […]

New Delhi: President Ram Nath Kovind, Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Congress President Rahul Gandhi were among the leaders who greeted the people of Telangana on its Statehood Day on Sunday. The state was formed from the northwestern part of Andhra Pradesh on this day in 2014. “Greetings and good wishes to the people of […]

New Delhi: Congress President Rahul Gandhi’s brother-in-law Robert Vadra on Tuesday appeared before the Enforcement Directorate (ED) in connection with a money laundering case involving assets allegedly held abroad. Vadra arrived at the ED office in central Delhi. Vadra had skipped the agency’s questioning on Friday citing health conditions. He was questioned by the ED […]

New Delhi: The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Tuesday questioned Congress President Rahul Gandhi’s brother-in-law Robert Vadra for over six hours in connection with a money laundering case involving assets allegedly held abroad. Vadra was asked about the money received by his company as alleged kickbacks in petroleum deals in Gujarat. The agency said the money […]

Sundergarh: Post general elections, infighting and blame game within Odisha Congress continue to mount with another party leader and Sundergarh MP candidate George Tirkey accusing OPCC leaders of campaigning for the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and also the Biju Janata Dal (BJD) during 2019 polls. Addressing a presser, the senior Congress leader said that intra-party […]

Wayanad (Kerala): It was a reunion after a gap of almost 49 years when Congress President Rahul Gandhi hugged Rajamma, who was his delivery nurse at a hospital in Delhi way back in 1970. Rajamma told Gandhi it was neither Rajiv Gandhi nor Sonia Gandhi, but she who first cuddled him. Hearing this Gandhi hugged […]

Thiruvambady/Mukkam: Congress president Rahul Gandhi Sunday accused the Centre under Prime Minister Narendra Modi of according step-motherly treatment to the states not ruled by the BJP, which he dubbed as a party “blinded by hate and anger”. The Congress president made the allegations, doubting Modi’s remarks on Saturday that Kerala from where the BJP won […]

Tirupati: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday said that some people were yet to get over the impact of the Lok Sabha poll results. Addressing a meeting of BJP workers at Renigunta Airport near this temple town, he said the election chapter was over for the BJP and it had now started focussing on serving […]

New Delhi: Rahul Gandhi will remain the Congress President, the party said on Wednesday, adding that the Congress Core Committee had been dissolved after the rout in the Lok Sabha elections. “Rahul Gandhi is the President and will remain the President,” spokesperson Randeep Singh Surjewala told the media after members of the core committee met […]

New Delhi: The Congress Thursday paid tributes to the 13 people killed in the IAF aircraft crash in Arunachal Pradesh, saying the country shall remain indebted for their valiant contributions. Congress president Rahul Gandhi expressed his deepest condolences to the families of the “13 brave men in uniform”. All 13 people on board the AN-32 […]

New Delhi: Congress president Rahul Gandhi Monday took oath as member of the 17th Lok Sabha. Gandhi won the election from Wayanad in Kerala. He had also contested from the Gandhi bastion of Amethi in Uttar Pradesh but was defeated by BJP leader and Union Minister Smriti Irani by a margin of over 55,000 votes. […]

New Delhi: Congress President Rahul Gandhi on Monday took the oath for his fourth consecutive term as a Member of Parliament in the Lok Sabha but forgot to sign the Parliament register. He signed the register only after officials and several MPs reminded him. Gandhi has been elected to Parliament from Kerala’s Wayanad. He had […]

New Delhi: The Congress on Tuesday responded to Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s advice to the Opposition, saying his words were most of the time not implemented by his own party leaders. Stressing on the importance of an active opposition in democracy, Modi on Monday told them not to bother about their numbers and instead actively […]