Rahul completed an eventful four-hour-long visit to Mumbai on Friday afternoon, ignoring warnings of caution from the right-wing Shiv Sena and the Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) activists.
Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge distributed sweets among leaders of the opposition bloc INDIA during a meeting in his chamber ahead of the commencement of the House proceedings.
Congress General Secretary Rahul Gandhi's statement that Hindu extremism poses a bigger threat to India than Laskhar-e-Tayiba militants has not gone down well with the Bharatiya Janata Party. The Congress leader's conversation with United States ambassador to India Timothy Roemer was revealed on Friday in the latest WikiLeaks expose.
Rahul Gandhi attended thee public speeches in Jamnagar, Amreli and Sanand on Tuesday, but his careful attitude made them bland, says Sheela Bhatt.
Her immovable assets are worth over Rs 7.74 crore, which includes two inherited half shares of agricultural land in Mehrauli area of New Delhi and a half share in a farmhouse building located therein, all of which together are now worth over Rs 2.10 crore.
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi in a white t-shirt in the biting cold has been a hot topic of discussion -- and not just in top political circles.
Even when the Congress is facing the toughest challenge in its long history, it shows no sign of turning a new leaf and injecting internal democracy to revive its fortunes, argues Virendra Kapoor.
Allowing students to have interaction with Rahul Gandhi has cost vice chancellor of a leading university in Indore his job. Devi Ahilyabai Vishwa Vidyalaya (DAVV) vice chancellor Dr A S Sehrawat, who ran into a controversy after allowing Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi to interact with students on the university campus has resigned from his post.
Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah on Friday met Congress parliamentary party (CPP) chairperson Sonia Gandhi and former party chief Rahul Gandhi at their residence in New Delhi.
Opposition parties in India are demanding a thorough and speedy investigation into a car blast near the Red Fort in Delhi that resulted in multiple fatalities and injuries. They are also raising concerns about the security situation in the national capital and questioning the government's handling of the matter.
The Congress said the PM has neither found the time nor even had the inclination to visit the state for even a few hours.
'The question for the TMC is not whether it can hold its bastions, but whether it can expand effectively into regions where the BJP already possesses a good ecosystem.'
Following a security breach during Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi's earlier visit to Uttar Pradesh, close to a hundred policemen and a vehicle armed against riots escorted him when he arrived in Lucknow on Tuesday on a two-day visit.The Centre has sought a report from the Uttar Pradesh government on the reported security breach of Rahul Gandhi during his recent visit to Allahabad.
Gandhi drove to Kharge's residence and held a closed-door meeting with the Congress chief.
Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates, who presides over the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, arrived in Amethi on Tuesday along with Congress General Secretary Rahul Gandhi.
In what is being seen as a focused approach to the problems of Dalits and tribals in various states, Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi has begun interacting with some select legislators belonging to these categories.
Targeting the BJP over 'corruption' charges against its leaders, Congress General Secretary Rahul Gandhi today asked the opposition party what action it took against those facing such allegations.
The arrest of two Catholic nuns from Kerala in Chhattisgarh on charges of human trafficking and forced religious conversion has ignited a political controversy, with opposition parties criticizing the arrest and the Chief Minister defending the police action.
At the last UNGA, Rahul had hung around with other lawmakers and observed the events. This time, with his mother in tow, he is expected to rub shoulders with several heads of state and governments.
The party in Uttar Pradesh is seeing the visit as the virtual launch of the Congress campaign in the state, ahead of the coming Lok Sabha elections.
Kharge said the BJP made all efforts to get him disqualified as he was speaking the truth.
As a petition accusing Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi of having illegally confined a girl was dismissed by Supreme Court, the Central Bureau of Investigation is likely to send a Letters Rogatory to a foreign country seeking legal help suspecting a conspiracy to malign his image was hatched there.
The wife of the captain of the ship, hijacked by armed Somalian pirates in the Gulf of Aden, today met Congress General Secretary Rahul Gandhi seeking his intervention to save the lives of 18 Indian sailors onboard the vessel.
The Congress has "consensus" over the leadership of Rahul Gandhi as its prime ministerial candidate, a party spokesperson said on Monday amid speculation that he may be anointed as the party nominee at the All India Congress Committee meeting being held in New Delhi on January 17.
Gandhi said the Congress' slogan is 'count' because that would be the first step towards justice.
Ahead of starting the much-hyped 'Bharat Jodo Yatra', Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday attended a prayer meeting at the Rajiv Gandhi Memorial in Sriperumbudur on Wednesday.
Several BJP voters say the Ram temple sentiment may give the ruling party a fillip but are also aware of the herculean task at hand and concede that it is a daunting electoral contest for Dinesh Singh, who lost to Sonia Gandhi in the 2019 Lok Sabha polls.
Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi traveled in the chair car of the Shatabdi Express on Tuesday to reach Ludhiana from Delhi.
Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi, along with Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah, on Tuesday met members of women self-help groups in Amethi and asked them to make use of several schemes run by the Centre for improving their lot. On a day-long visit to his Parliamentary constituency Amethi, Gandhi told women members to take advantage of several schemes run by the Rajiv Gandhi Mahila Vikas Pariyojna and the Union government for their development.
Having made it clear that he was not obsessed with becoming the prime minister, Congress General Secretary Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday termed posts as hurdles, which bring distance between people.
INDIA bloc MPs protest against the Election Commission's voter roll revision in Bihar, alleging irregularities and disenfranchisement of voters.
On the admissions, he said 26 people were treated in the OPD and were discharged. And of the 67 admitted as in-patients, 2 were critical. All others were stable. One of the patients was shifted to the Madurai GH for further treatment.
Despite Shiv Sena executive president Uddhav Thackeray's warning, Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi is expected to visit Mumbai on Friday.
The Jawahar Bhavan Trust has been reshuffled.
Former Union ministers Arjun Singh, M L Fotedar and Mohsina Kidwai have retired as trustees.
Ahmed Patel, Sonia Gandhi's political secretary, has relinquished the post of secretary to the trust; he remains a trustee.
Like his father Karunanidhi and AIADMK rivals MGR and Jayalalithaa, Stalin would like to confine his real political work to Tamil Nadu, and not want to take after the late Congress leader K Kamaraj and take up a national role, even if to create greater political space for son Udhayanidhi, points out N Sathiya Moorthy.
The trouble arose when the youths entered Udit Narayan Inter College where Rahul's meeting was underway and chanted slogans and distributed pamphlets, official sources said.
Gandhi said the defence minister had "lied" to the family of martyr Ajay Singh, the armed forces and the youth of the country, and must apologise to them.
Congress general secretary Digvijay Singh has said that Rahul Gandhi is the future of Congress.
The satyagraha will begin at 10 AM and end at 5 PM on Sunday.
Congress president Sonia Gandhi on Thursday arrived in Beijing along with her family to attend the Olympics opening ceremony. Sonia, 61, is accompanied by her MP son Rahul, daughter Priyanka, son-in-law Robert Vadra and two grandchildren.
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