NEW DELHI: Congress MP and leader of the opposition Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday visited an ice-cream parlour in Srinagar‘s Lal Chowk, after enjoying dinner at a famous local restaurant.Rahul, along with Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge and other party leaders, left Hotel Lalit in the Gupkar area in the city, where they were staying, to dine…
NEW DELHI: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday paid homage to former prime minister and his father Rajiv Gandhi on his 80th birth anniversary. Rahul Gandhi also offered floral tributes to his father at Veer Bhumi, Rajiv Gandhi’s memorial.In a heartfelt message on X, formerly known as Twitter, Rahul Gandhi expressed his admiration for his…
NEW DELHI: Hours after announcement of the election schedule for J&K, Congress appointed Tariq Hameed Karra at the new state president in place of Vikas Rasool Wani. The party also named Tara Chand and Raman Bhalla as working presidents of J&K Congress.Sources said leaders from the state had recently demanded that a senior person should…
NEW DELHI: Congress functionary and Rajya Sabha member Jairam Ramesh submitted a notice to initiate privilege proceedings against Union education minister Dharmendra Pradhan, on Thursday, for “misleading” the House regarding the removal of the Preamble to the Constitution from NCERT textbooks for classes III and VI students.In his letter to Rajya Sabha Chairman Jagdeep Dhankhar,…
NEW DELHI: Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MP Anurag Thakur called out LoP Rahul Gandhi and the Congress party for their silence on the atrocities against Hindus and other minority communities in Bangladesh while expressing concern over Gaza. “It is unfortunate that the Leader of Opposition extended congratulations to the interim government (of Bangladesh) but did…
NEW DELHI: Vice-President Jagdeep Dhankhar, who has had several run-ins with the opposition leaders during the ongoing Budget session, was at the centre of another fiery faceoff in Rajya Sabha on Friday. An enraged Dhankhar took Jaya Bachchan head on after the Samajwadi Party MP objected to the “tone” of Rajya Sabha Chairman against opposition…
NEW DELHI: Rajya Sabha saw a verbal spat between Chairman Jagdeep Dhankhar and leader of opposition (LoP) Mallikarjun Kharge on Wednesday when the latter sought to raise an “emergent issue” (disqualification of wrestler Vinesh Phogat) during the discussion on Appropriation Bill, but it was turned down by the Chair. When Kharge and Congress members asked…
NEW DELHI: Congress chief Mallikarjun Kharge on Wednesday made a strong case for caste census and accused the BJP-RSS of conspiring to hide the caste numbers so that they could keep the dalits, tribals and OBCs backward and snatch away their reservation. A day after BJP MP Anurag Thakur‘s alleged caste attack against Rahul Gandhi…
NEW DELHI: Leader of opposition in the Rajya Sabha Mallikarjun Kharge asked the chairman to expunge remarks made by BJP MP Ghanshyam Tiwari over his political journey, mentioning that Congress president’s “entire family was involved in politics”.“He made a comment regarding ‘parivarvaad‘. I request that this should be expunged (from the records),” Kharge said.Chairman Jagdeep…
Congress chief Mallikarjun Kharge on Tuesday called the seventh budget 2024-25 a “disappointing budget” and said that they have provided special allocation to Bihar and Andhra Pradesh just to appease their allies JDU and TDP so that they can save the government. After finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman presented the budget at the Parliament, the Congress…
