Sonia Gandhi was party president till 2017 for 19 long years before passing the baton to son Rahul Gandhi.
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CWC Meet Live Updates: If anyone can lead the opposition, it is Rahul Gandhi; he has demonstrated this in the past few years, says Congress leader Ghulam Nabi Azad
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PM Modi, Amit Shah, Rahul and Sonia Gandhi to campaign in Tripura
Agartala: Prime Minister Narendra Modi, BJP President Amit Shah, Congress President Rahul Gandhi and UPA Chairperson Sonia Gandhi among leaders who will campaign in Tripura next week, party sources said on Tuesday. Bharatiya Janata Party spokesman Nabendu Bhattacharjee said Modi, who addressed a public gathering here on February 9 and[Read More…]
Lok Sabha Elections 2019: Congress releases first list of candidates, Rahul to contest from Amethi, Sonia from Rae Bareli
Congress has put out its first list of candidates for the Lok Sabha elections, with party chief Rahul Gandhi contesting his bastion Amethi and UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi contesting from her home turf, Rae Bareli. Congress has also announced a few seats in Gujarat, including the Vadodara and Anand constituencies[Read More…]
Rahul Gandhi to launch campaign from village where Indira, Rajiv, Sonia started
Lal Dungri (South Gujarat): Congress President Rahul Gandhi on Thursday launches his 2019 election campaign from the same tribal Lal Dungri village in Gujarat’s Dharampur where his grandmother Indira Gandhi in 1980, his father Rajiv Gandhi in 1984 and his mother Sonia Gandhi in 2004 started and romped home to[Read More…]
With selfies and delicacies! Rahul, Sonia spend their Sunday lunch in Goa
Holidaying in Goa following a turbulent Parliament winter session, Congress Chief Rahul Gandhi surprised patrons at the popular Fisherman’s Wharf restaurant located in South Goa, where he arrived for a Sunday lunch with his mother and former party President, and UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi. Rahul who was wearing a blue[Read More…]
Priyanka Gandhi becomes 12th Gandhi-Nehru family member to enter politics; Here’s the list
On Wednesday with Priyanka Gandhi’s appointment as AICC General Secretary for Uttar Pradesh East, Gandhi-Nehru family has now seen 12 family members joining politics. 3 of which have got elected to the prestigious post of Prime Minister. Going back in history to Motilal Nehru, first in the bloodline to be[Read More…]
Stalin proposes Rahul Gandhi as PM candidate to defeat ‘fascist’ Modi
Chennai: Putting an end to lingering speculation, DMK President M.K. Stalin on Sunday proposed the name of Congress President Rahul Gandhi for the post of Prime Minister and said he had the strength to defeat the “fascist” Narendra Modi. He made the announcement at a public rally here in the[Read More…]
Sonia Gandhi before becoming a politician
From being a distant observer in a political household, Sonia Gandhi has now occupied the center stage in Indian politics.
AJL case: Trouble mounts for former Haryana CM Bhupinder Singh Hooda
Panchkula: The Central Bureau of Investigation on Saturday has filed a charge sheet before the special CBI court in Panchkula in connection with the re-allotment of institution plot to Associated Journals Limited (AJL), publisher of National Herald newspaper in Panchkula, Haryana. CBI has filed a charge sheet under sections 120B[Read More…]
‘Mother of Telangana’ Sonia Gandhi says Congress paid price for creating new state
Hyderabad: United Progressive Alliance (UPA) chairperson Sonia Gandhi on Friday said the Congress carved out Telangana state, though it had to pay a political price for it. On first visit to Telangana after it came into being as a separate state in 2014, the former Congress president said it accorded[Read More…]
Sonia Gandhi attacks TRS over various issues at Medchal rally
Ahead of Telangana elections, UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi attacked caretaker Chief Minister K Chandrashekhar Rao over various issues on Friday in Medchal. Sonia Gandhi stated that, “Rulers of Telangana took care of themselves but not the people. Elections are a time when we can get rid of these problems. Congress[Read More…]
Telangana: After Vishweswar Reddy, two more MPs to leave TRS bandwagon
Ahead of Telangana polls, caretaker Chief Minister and TRS Supremo K Chandrashekhar Rao could face another setback as 1 Rajya Sabha parliamentarian and 1 Lok Sabha MP, 3 legislators and 2 MLCs could leave the incumbent TRS ahead of electoral battle. On November 23, during UPA Chairperson Sonia Gandhi’s Medchal[Read More…]
Telangana Assembly Polls: Sonia Gandhi to make grand show of TRS exodus in Medchal rally
Telangana Rashtra Samiti (TRS) leaders’ exodus to Congress in Medchal is all set to place under the leadership of Former Congress Chief and UPA Chairperson Sonia Gandhi on Friday in a grand show. The major opposition party Congress is leaving no stone unturned to make the grand show a spectacle[Read More…]
Sonia Gandhi hails Manmohan Singh, says empty boasts, vitriol not his style
New Delhi: In a veiled dig at Prime Minister Narendra Modi, UPA Chairperson Sonia Gandhi on Monday said that “fanciful boasts, self-promoting bombast and the language of abuse and vitriol” was not the style of Manmohan Singh who presided over the country’s highest economic growth rate in his tenure as[Read More…]
‘I am also a Dalit’, Why is Modi unfair to me? Tweets Yashwant Sinha
Former Union Minister and senior leader Yashwant Sinha on Monday, took to Twitter and stated himself as ‘Dalit’ and asked Prime Minister Modi, “Why is Modi unfair to me?”. Yashwant Singh tweeted after PM Modi called former Congress Chief Sitaram Kesri a ‘Dalit’ during a rally. Prime Minister Narendra Modi[Read More…]
Manmohan Singh conferred with ‘Indira Gandhi Prize for Peace Disarmament and Development’
In an address at Jawahar Bhawan, New Delhi, Sonia Gandhi conferred Prime Minister Manmohan Singh with ‘Indira Gandhi Prize for Peace, Disarmament and Development’. Lone Muslim MLA in MP Assembly: The ‘unbeatable’ legislator whose seat is a Congress citadel in Bhopal In November last year, Manmohan Singh won the award.[Read More…]
Sonia Gandhi to unveil Karunanidhi’s statue at DMK head quarter
New Delhi: Former All India Congress Committee (AICC) President and senior Congress leader Sonia Gandhi is going to unveil the late Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) Chief M Karunanidhi’s statue at DMK’s Head Quarter in Chennai on December 16. A formal invitation to this ceremony will be conveyed by DMK President[Read More…]
Documentary on Nehru needed as there’s an attempt to demythologise him: Sheetal Talwar
By Subhash K. Jha Mumbai: A grand documentary on Jawaharlal Nehru, based on parliamentarian-author Shashi Tharoor’s “Nehru: The Invention Of India”, will be announced by UPA Chairperson Sonia Gandhi in the capital on Tuesday. It is much needed at a time when there’s an attempt to “cut him to size”,[Read More…]
TRS leader D Srinivas likely to join Congress soon
In a significant political development on Saturday in New Delhi, Telangana Rashtra Samiti (TRS) senior leader and Rajya Sabha MP D. Srinivas would join Congress party soon, sources claimed. As per the sources, Srinivas met Senior Congress leader Sonia Gandhi in New Delhi and discussed the further plans regarding joining[Read More…]
What’s cooking?
Former Congress President Sonia Gandhi on Wednesday October 31, paid a surprise visit at the Women of India National organic festival organised by Women and Child Development Minister Maneka Gandhi. Held at the Indira Gandhi National Centre for Arts, the fifth edition of the festival was inaugurated on October 26[Read More…]
Manmohan, Sonia, Rahul pay tribute to Indira Gandhi
New Delhi: former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi and Congress President Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday paid tributes to late Prime Minister Indira Gandhi on her death anniversary. They paid floral tributes at the slain leader’s memorial at Shakti Sthal here. “Remembering Dadi (grandma) today with a deep[Read More…]
In 2019, Rahul Gandhi is the only leader who can defeat Modi
Last week, the Congress President, Rahul Gandhi undertook a four-day visit to Germany and the United Kingdom as a part of his party’s NRI outreach program. In this visit, besides his meetings with politicians of the host countries and speaking to Indian Overseas Congress members, he also spoke and interacted[Read More…]
“Indian men should change their outlook towards women,” says Rahul Gandhi
Congress President Rahul Gandhi has said Indian men do not view the women in the country as equal and they should change their outlook towards women, even as he disagreed with the view that ‘India was the most unsafe place for women’. Addressing a gathering at Bucerius Summer School here[Read More…]
Congress appoints Ahmed Patel as new treasurer
Senior Congress leader and Rajya Sabha MP Ahmed Patel is the new treasurer of the party. He replaces Mr Motilal Vohra. Patel, the once powerful political secretary of Sonia Gandhi, will replace Motilal Vora who has been appointed as general secretary in-charge of administration. Anand Sharma will be the new[Read More…]