NEW DELHI: Congress leader Sonia Gandhi On Monday strongly criticised the National Education Policy (NEP) 2020, accusing the Union BJP government of using it as a tool for “centralisation of power, commercialisation, and communalisation” in the education sector. The former congress president said, “The Union Government’s track record over the last decade has convincingly demonstrated…
AICC to discuss fight against BJP ‘anti-people’ policies in Apr NEW DELHI: Congress will hold its All India Congress Committee (AICC) session in Ahmedabad on April 8 and 9 to deliberate on the challenges posed by the governing BJP’s “anti-people” policies and its “relentless attacks” on the Constitution as well as for charting the party’s…
Congress leader Sonia Gandhi has been admitted to the Sir Ganga Ram Hospital in Delhi, news agency PTI reported quoting sources on Thursday.The 78-year-old Congress veteran is doing fine and is likely to be discharged on Friday, they said.While the exact time of admission is not immediately known, a source said, she was admitted on…
NEW DELHI: Raising delay in conducting census by more than four years, Congress MP Sonia Gandhi, in her maiden intervention in Rajya Sabha Monday, said around 14 crore people are being deprived of benefits under National Food Security Act (NFSA). She said the quota for beneficiaries is still determined based on the 2011 census, which…
Sonia Gandhi. (Photo/PTI) NEW DELHI: Congress Parliamentary Party (CPP) chairperson Sonia Gandhi on Monday called on the government to complete the population census at the earliest, saying that around 14 crore people in the country are being deprived of benefits under the food security law. Speaking in the Rajya Sabha during her first Zero Hour…
NEW DELHI: Congress leader and Wayanad MP Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Sunday recalled having managed elections for mother Sonia Gandhi and brother Rahul for in Amethi and Raebareli for “many years”.Addressing the party workers in Malappuram, Kerala, Priyanka said, “For many years, I managed the elections of Sonia ji and Rahul ji in Raebareli and…
NEW DELHI: BJP MPs on Monday submitted a notice for breach of parliamentary privilege, citing ethics and propriety concerns over Sonia Gandhi’s alleged use of “derogatory and slanderous words” against the President of India, accusing the Rajya Sabha MP of attempting to ‘undermine the dignity’ of the nation’s highest office.“We write this with great dismay…
NEW DELHI: Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge on Sunday upped the ante against Aam Aadmi Party chief Arvind Kejriwal, accusing him of making false allegations against the grand-old-party to defame the leaders in different ways.While addressing a rally in Delhi, Kharge said, “Arvind Kejriwal came to you in the guise of votes, abusing Congress, making false…
NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday latched on to veteran leader Sonia Gandhi‘s remark on President Murmu to attack Congress, accusing the grand-old party of insulting the tribal community and a woman in the highest post of the country.While addressing a rally in Delhi’s Dwarka, PM said that the “royal family of Congress”…
NEW DELHI: Rashtrapati Bhavan on Friday condemned the recent remarks made by Congress leaders on President Droupadi Murmu’s address at the Budget Session. Referring to Sonia Gandhi‘s “looked very tired, poor thing” remark, The Rashtrapati Bhavan said comments were “in poor taste” and “hurt the dignity of the high office”.Sonia Gandhi had made a remark…
