NEW DELHI: Congress leader and leader of opposition in Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi met wrestlers Vinesh Phogat and Bajrang Punia on Tuesday amid speculations that the wrestlers might be nominated as party’s candidates in the upcoming Haryana assembly elections.The Congress party shared a photo of the meeting on its official social media account. The Congress…
PUNE: BJP‘s Maharashtra unit on Tuesday demanded that Congress and its leader Rahul Gandhi ‘do penance’ for Jawaharlal Nehru‘s statement “insulting Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj”.“Rahul Gandhi should come to Maharashtra and apologise for Jawaharlal Nehru’s statement that insulted Shivaji Maharaj by calling him a misguided patriot and a treacherous plunderer,” the party’s chief spokesperson Keshav Upadhye…
NEW DELHI: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Sunday held a virtual meet with senior party leaders on relief and rehabilitation efforts in Wayanad after the recent landslides which claimed more than 300 lives. Gandhi asserted that it is imperative to make a concerted effort to revitalise tourism in the district and dispelling the notion that…
NEW DELHI: Assam chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma hit back at Tejashwi Yadav over his “Chinese version of Yogi” remark, saying the RJD leader “should have implemented a four-hour break when he was in power in Bihar”.Earlier, taking a dig at Sarma over the Assam assembly’s decision to do away with the two-hour namaz break…
NEW DELHI: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi is set to embark on a visit to the United States from September 8-10, marking his first international trip since becoming the leader of the opposition in the Lok Sabha. During this visit, he will engage with the Indian diaspora, students, academicians, and lawmakers in Dallas, Texas and Washington…
NEW DELHI: Leader of the Opposition and congress MP Rahul Gandhi criticised the BJP government over the tragic incident involving the deaths of two Dalit girls in Farrukhabad district. The bodies of the girls, one of whom was a minor, were found hanging from a tree in the Kaimganj Kotwali police jurisdiction early Tuesday.Gandhi, in…
NEW DELHI: Union minister Kiren Rijiju on Sunday hit out at Congress leader Rahul Gandhi for his comment that there were no “Dalits and adivasis” in the list of contestants in the Miss India beauty pageant and said the statement was something that could only come from a “bal buddhi (juvenile)”.“Now, he wants reservations in…
NEW DELHI: Manoj Tiwari on Sunday said that Rahul Gandhi needed a mental health checkup, accusing him of wanting to know everyone’s caste, however, not ready to reveal his own.“Rahul Gandhi needs medical treatment, his mental health check-up needs to be done,” the BJP leader said.“The most worrying is that he wants to know the…
NEW DELHI: The parliamentary affairs minister Kiren Rijiju on Sunday launched a fierce critique at leader of opposition Rahul Gandhi for his comments about the absence of Dalits and Adivasis from the Miss India list, made during a ‘Samvidhaan Samman Sammelan’ on Saturday.Rijiju took his sharp response to X, saying, “Now, he wants reservations in…
PRAYARAJ: Lok Sabha LoP Rahul Gandhi reiterated his demand for a caste census on Saturday, arguing that it was necessary for reshaping policies to benefit 90% of excluded people, reports Rajeev Mani. He said corporate sectors, judiciary, media, Bollywood, and beauty pageants lack representation from OBCs, SCs, and STs.“90% of people are out of the…
