NEW DELHI: Leader of the opposition and former Wayanad MP, Rahul Gandhi, urged the Centre to support the people of Wayanad during his address in the Lok Sabha on Wednesday. “It is a huge tragedy in Wayanad and the military is doing a good job there. I think it is important that we support the … Read more
NEW DELHI: Leader of Opposition Rahul Gandhi on Friday came out in defence of his political rival Smriti Irani, who has been facing derogatory slurs from his supporters and other detractors on social media after her loss in the 2024 Lok Sabha election.“Winning and losing happen in life. I urge everyone to refrain from using … Read more
NEW DELHI: Union Minister for Earth Sciences Kiren Rijiju termed China’s recent overtures regarding its claims over Arunachal Pradesh as a sign of increasing nervousness in Beijing.“China is very nervous because earlier these border areas were totally left underdeveloped during Congress time and during PM Modi’s time, all major highways, roads, bridges, all 4G networks, … Read more
NEW DELHI: Assam chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Monday made a reference to the 10-headed demon king Ravan when a reporter asked him about Congress leader Rahul Gandhi‘s Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra. “The entire country is celebrating Ram Lalla‘s ‘Pran Pratistha” in Ayodhya. Why are you talking about Ravan today? At least today talk … Read more
NEW DELHI: The Trinamool Congress (TMC) has announced that its leader, Mamata Banerjee, will make the final decision on seat sharing with the Congress for the upcoming Lok Sabha elections in West Bengal. The TMC has offered the Congress two seats out of the 42 Lok Sabha constituencies in the state, based on the poor … Read more
NEW DELHI: The BJP on Wednesday made light of the Congress‘s proposed “Bharat Nyay Yatra,” which will be launched on January 14 with the objective ‘Sabke liye Nyay’ (Justice for everyone), and said the grand old party cannot fool Indians by coining some slogans. BJP national spokesperson Nalin Kohli said “Real nyay” is what Prime … Read more
KHAMMAM: Launching a scathing attack on Telangana chief minister K Chandrashekar Rao, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Sunday said his remote control was with Prime Minister Narendra Modi and described the state’s ruling party as “BJP‘s B-Team” and its new nomenclature, BRS, as ‘BJP Rishtedar Party’.Gandhi alleged that the corruption charges against Rao and his … Read more
NEW DELHI: With Prime Minister Narendra Modi completing nine years in office, the Congress on Friday asked him nine questions on issues such as rising prices, unemployment and farmers’ income, and demanded an apology for the “betrayal” during his tenure.The Opposition party also said the government should mark this day as ‘Maafi Diwas’.Former Congress chief … Read more
NEW DELHI: Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar met Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge and former party chief Rahul Gandhi here on Monday, the second such meeting in the last one and a half months amid efforts to strengthen Opposition unity to take on the BJP in the 2024 general elections.Kumar met Kharge and Gandhi at the … Read more
NEW DELHI: Karnataka Pradesh Congress Committee (KPCC) president DK Shivakumar, who is one of the two strongest contenders for the chief minister’s (CM) post of the state, has bluntly declined to share it with his party colleague Siddaramaiah. Shivakumar may have rejected the idea outright because of the unsuccessful experiments in sharing the CM’s post … Read more
NEW DELHI: After sweeping the Karnataka assembly election last week, the Congress faces a tough dilemma regarding the chief minister’s (CM) post in the southern state. The issue has arisen because the Congress leadership did not appoint any chief ministerial candidate. The party had faced a similar situation after the favourable results in Madhya Pradesh … Read more
NEW DELHI: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi handed over the keys of his official residence to the Lok Sabha secretariat on Saturday, a day after he moved out his belongings from the 12, Tughlaq Lane bungalow that he had moved into nearly 2 decades ago. “People of Hindustan gave me this house for 19 years, I … Read more
NEW DELHI: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi has been disqualified as a Lok Sabha member following his conviction in the criminal defamation case over his “Modi surname” remark.Also See: Rahul Gandhi News Live UpdatesThe announcement of disqualification of the Wayanad MP comes a day after a court in Surat sentenced him to two years in the … Read more
NEW DELHI: Several opposition party leaders on Tuesday held a protest in the corridors of Parliament and raised slogans demanding a Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) probe into the Adani issue, even as the BJP accused the opposition MPs of repeatedly insulting Rajya Sabha Chairperson Jagdeep Dhankhar and stalling the parliamentary process.Both houses of Parliament adjourned … Read more
NEW DELHI: Taking a dig at the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), Rahul Gandhi on Saturday said that he considers it his guru and the more the saffron party attacks them, the better it is for the Congress to understand its ideology.“I want them (BJP) to attack us aggressively, this will help Congress party understand its … Read more