NEW DELHI: The mechanism to select the chairperson and member of NHRC was “flawed” and a “predetermined” exercise as it did not involve “consultation and consensus”, leaders of opposition Mallikarjun Kharge and Rahul Gandhi said in their dissent note. Congress had proposed the names of former SC judges, Justices K M Joseph and Rohinton Fali…
NEW DELHI: Leader of opposition in Lok Sabha, Rahul Gandhi, visited a vegetable market in Giri Nagar, Delhi, where he interacted with women who shared their struggles about soaring food prices.Sharing a video of the visit on social media, the former Congress chief criticised the government for compromising with the middle-class budget and said, “Garlic…
NEW DELHI: Parbhani in Maharashtra turned into a political battleground on Monday as Congress leader Rahul Gandhi visited the city to meet the family of Somnath Suryawanshi, who died in judicial custody on December 15. The ruling BJP called Rahul’s visit an “attempt to create hatred among people on caste lines”.Somnath, a 35-year-old law student,…
NEW DELHI: Bharatiya Janata Party spokesperson Shehzad Poonawalla launched a scathing attack on Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Sunday, labeling the Lok Sabha Opposition Leader as the ‘Leader of propaganda’, ‘Leader of photography’ and ‘Leader of panga’. Poonawalla noted that the Congress party‘s recent electoral defeats in Haryana and Maharashtra had led to their current…
The controversy over Amit Shah’s Ambedkar remarks once again united the Congress and other opposition parties. (Photo/PTI) NEW DELHI: The winter session of Parliament saw differences within the INDIA bloc come to the fore with some regional parties differing openly with the Congress and some even questioning its leadership of the opposition alliance. The session…
NEW DELHI: Congress MP Priyanka Gandhi on Friday defended her brother, Rahul Gandhi on Friday, rejecting BJP‘s allegations of violence during a scuffle outside Parliament as “false and baseless”Speaking to the media, Priyanka accused the BJP of fabricating the claims out of desperation to divert attention from pressing issues.“This is the government’s desperation,” she said….
NEW DELHI: Delhi police on Thursday registered an FIR against Congress leader Rahul Gandhi after the Bharatiya Janata Party filed a police complaint against the leader of opposition in Lok Sabha, accusing him of “physical assault and incitement” during a scuffle in Parliament premises earlier today. BJP leaders including Anurag Thakur, Bansuri Swaraj and Hemang…
Union education minister Dharmendra Pradhan called Congress’ cry for Bhim Rao Ambedkar “crocodile tears” and launched a scathing attack on the oldest party, claiming that from Jawaharlal Nehru to Rahul Gandhi has always hated “Babasaheb.”In a post on X, the Union minister shared a cartoon claiming that it was of an NCERT book of class…
NEW DELHI: Rahul Gandhi, leader of opposition in Lok Sabha, outrightly refuted the BJP’s allegations that he shoved the ruling party’s MPs at the House entrance, cliaming that its one of the new tatics by the BJP to divert attention from the uproar over Union home minister Amit Shah‘s remark on Ambedkar and Adani issue….
NEW DELHI: BJP MPs on Thursday confronted Congress leader Rahul Gandhi when he approached Pratap Chandra Sarangi, who was seated after receiving a head injury during a scuffle with INDIA bloc MPs outside Parliament.Video showed BJP MPs reacting angrily when Rahul approached Sarangi shortly after the incident to enquire about his condition.“Aapko sharm nahi aati…
