NEW DELHI: The stage is set for Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra’s electoral debut, with EC scheduling the bypoll to Kerala‘s Wayanad Lok Sabha seat vacated by LoP Rahul Gandhi for November 13.Rahul had on June 17 announced that he will retain Rae Bareli seat in Uttar Pradesh, and vacate Wayanad that he represented…
The Election Commission of India (ECI) on Tuesday announced the date for the bypoll on the Wayanad Lok Sabha seat. The polling will held on November 13.The seat was vacated after Rahul Gandhi, leader of the opposition in Lok Sabha, chose to retain the Rae Bareli seat in Uttar Pradesh following his victory in both…
NEW DELHI: Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Saturday shared an anecdote when she and Rahul Gandhi went for a trip to with former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi just days before her assassination.While addressing a public rally in Jammu’s Bishnah, the Congress leader recounted about her trip and said that her grandmother took her to…
NEW DELHI: Senior BJP leaders seized upon veteran Congress functionary Sushil Kumar Shinde‘s remark that he was trembling with fear while visiting Lal Chowk in Srinagar as home minister under UPA-2.Union minister Piyush Goyal and former I&B minister Anurag Thakur cited Shinde’s remark at the launch of his memoirs on Monday as symbolising the fear…
NEW DELHI: Congress on Monday mounted a fresh attack on PM Modi for not visiting strife-addled Manipur, with party chief Mallikarjun Kharge and Priyanka Gandhi Vadra expressing concern over the internal security risks.Priyanka Gandhi Vadra alleged that the PM “has not made any effort to stop” the violence and the subsequent fallout. In a piercing…
NEW DELHI: The Congress on Saturday flayed the idea of “bulldozer action” as a means to justice and called it an act of “barbarism” that requires immediate attention. The grand old party also flagged, what it called the “repeated targeting of minorities” with the use of state machinery in BJP ruled states.The opposition charge comes…
NEW DELHI: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) launched a scathing attack on Tuesday against the Congress and the Samajwadi Party (SP) and accused them of shielding criminals and displaying insensitivity toward victims of serious crimes in Uttar Pradesh. The BJP’s criticisms came in response to allegations involving party members in two separate incidents of sexual…
NEW DELHI: Leader of opposition in Lok Sabha, Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday demanded govt to declare the recent landslides in Kerala’s Wayanad a national disaster.Calling it a huge tragedy, Rahul while speaking during Zero Hour on the disaster that hit villages in Wayanad district on July 30 urged govt to provide a comprehensive rehabilitation package,…
Rahul Gandhi has been assigned bungalow No. 5 at Sunhari Bagh in Delhi, after vacating his 12 Tughlaq Lane residence following his disqualification as an MP NEW DELHI: There is a strong buzz that leader of opposition and Congress Rahul Gandhi has been allotted bungalow No. 5 at Sunhari Bagh at Lutyens’ Delhi.Rahul Gandhi had…
NEW DELHI: Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra took a veiled dig at Prime Minister Narendra Modi over the government’s decision to rename two iconic halls at Rashtrapati Bhavan.Speaking on the renaming of halls, Priyanka said, “There is no concept of durbar but that of shehenshah”, implying that the decision reflects a shift towards a more…
