Rahul Gandhi

Rahul, Sonia to attend PM Modi’s swearing-in ceremony

9:53 pm May 29, 2019

New Delhi: Congress President Rahul Gandhi and UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi, besides former prime minister Manmohan Singh will attend the swearing-in of Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday evening at Rashtrapati Bhavan, party sources said. The Congress leaders are among those invited by the prime minister to the ceremony. They have accepted the invite, the […]

3 suspects held over killing of BJP worker in Amethi

Smriti Irani aide in Amethi shot dead

4:18 pm May 26, 2019

Amethi: In the first incident of post-poll violence in Uttar Pradesh, a close aide of Smriti Irani, the newly elected MP from Amethi Lok Sabha constituency, was shot dead by two men, with police not ruling out the possibility of it being a “political murder”. Surendra Singh (50), a former head of Baraulia village, was […]

Cong reviewing defeat of Rahul Gandhi in Amethi

The fall of Amethi – why Rahul Gandhi lost?

2:11 pm May 25, 2019

Amethi (UP): Lack of organisational network and a strong disconnect with the rural population led to the fall of the Congress stronghold Amethi, which has remained loyal to the Gandhi family since 1980. BJP’s Smriti Irani defeated the Congress chief and sitting MP Rahul Gandhi by a margin of 55,120 votes. Though the grand old […]

Cong Working Committee meets to review LS debacle

2:09 pm May 25, 2019

New Delhi: Top Congress leaders from across the country Saturday got together to review the party’s drubbing in the Lok Sabha polls, as the Congress Working Committee meeting got underway here. The CWC meeting, chaired by Congress president Rahul Gandhi, is being attended by UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi, former prime minister Manmohan Singh, Uttar Pradesh […]

India must prepare for borderless war: Rahul

CWC tomorrow, Rahul may offer to resign

2:02 pm May 24, 2019

New Delhi: After a humiliating defeat in the Lok Sabha polls, top Congress leaders will deliberate on party losses at a meeting of the working committee slated on Saturday where party chief Rahul Gandhi is likely to offer his resignation. According to sources, the party has convened a meeting of the Congress Working Committee, the […]