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Technical snag grounds PM Modi’s aircraft in Jharkhand, affects Rahul Gandhi’s travel plans

News November 15, 2024 indica

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s aircraft was grounded at Jharkhand’s Deoghar airport on Friday, November 15, due to a technical issue, after he flew in there on his way to Bihar’s Jamui to participate in an event commemorating the 150th birth anniversary of Birsa Munda, an Indian tribal icon.

After landing at Deoghar airport, he proceeded to Jamui by helicopter. However, upon completing the event and returning to Deoghar airport for his flight back to Delhi, his aircraft could not take off due to a technical problem.

“She will sacrifice for you”: Rahul Gandhi urges Wayanad to support sister Priyanka

News October 23, 2024 indica

India’s Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha and former Wayanad Lok Sabha MP, Rahul Gandhi, on Wednesday, October 23, said that “from now on there will be two MPs from Wayanad”.

“While Priyanka Gandhi will be the official MP, I will be the unofficial MP,” said Rahul Gandhi to a thunderous applause from the mammoth crowd which had come to hear Priyanka Gandhi, who later filed her nomination for the Wayanad Lok Sabha constituency, which goes to the polls on November 13.

Rahul Gandhi says his role is to inject love, respect and humility in Indian politics

News September 8, 2024 indica

Criticizing the Narendra Modi-led Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government, Congress MP and Leader of Opposition (LOP) in Lok Sabha, Rahul Gandhi, said that his role as the opposition leader is to inject the value of love, respect, and humility in Indian politics.

Gandhi was speaking at an Indian diaspora event organized in Dallas, Texas. The ex-Wayanad MP said that even though he understands that his responsibility is to hold the government accountable at all times, opposing the government in parliament and not letting them run a “dictatorship”, but his actual role is “broader” and “simpler” than that.

Congress leader Sam Pitroda lauds Rahul Gandhi as a strategist with deep thinking on any subject

News September 8, 2024 indica

Congress leader Sam Pitroda, while addressing the Indian diaspora in Texas, said that his party’s and India’s Leader of the Opposition Rahul Gandhi, has a vision contrary to what BJP promotes, and that he is not a “Pappu”.

“He (Rahul Gandhi) has a vision contrary to what BJP promotes by spending crores of rupees. I must tell you, he is no Pappu. He is highly educated, well-read, a strategist with deep thinking on any subject and sometimes it is not very easy to understand him,” Pitroda said.

Rahul Gandhi to visit America from September 8 to 10; to hold interactions at Texas University

News August 31, 2024 indica

India’s Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha, Rahul Gandhi, will visit the US from September 8 to September 10, during which he will hold numerous interactions in Washington DC and Dallas, including at the University of Texas.

Chairman of Indian Overseas Congress, Sam Pitroda, shared details of Gandhi’s first visit to the US after becoming the Leader of the Opposition in the Lok Sabha, on Saturday, August 31.

Rahul Gandhi made Rs 46.5 lakh profit in just 5 months amid stock market boom in Modi 3.0: IANS report

Biz, News August 12, 2024 indica

As Rahul Gandhi continues to raise suspicions about the stupendous growth of the Indian stock markets in the Modi 3.0 era, data has revealed that the Leader of Opposition (LoP) made a profit of Rs 46.49 lakh from his stock investments in the last five months.

IANS did the math and found that the value of Rahul Gandhi’s portfolio in the stock market increased from about Rs 4.33 crore (as on March 15, 2024), to nearly Rs 4.80 crore (as on August 12, 2024).

In India’s legislative battlefield it is now clearly Narendra Modi versus Rahul Gandhi

Spotlight June 26, 2024June 26, 2024 indica

With his appointment as the leader of the opposition (LoP) in India’s parliament the Indian National Congress Party’s Rahul Gandhi has for the first time acquired a greatly consequential legislative role.

In many ways, the appointment, that puts him on par within parliament with Prime Minister Narendra Modi, will also subsequently test his political acumen unlike ever before.

Rahul Gandhi’s birthday celebrated by various chapters of Indian Overseas Congress USA

News June 24, 2024June 24, 2024 indica

Over one thousand Indian Overseas Congress USA leaders and members gathered at major cities in the country and held events to celebrate the birthday of Indian MP and India National Congress leader Rahul Gandhi.

President Mohinder Singh Gilzian spear-headed and coordinated the celebrations in different IOC USA locations, which admittedly celebrated the good results from the Congress-led INDIA bloc at the recently concluded general elections (Lok Sabha polls) in India.

Rahul Gandhi hints at relinquishing Wayanad, BJP hits out at ‘cheating’

News June 12, 2024June 12, 2024 indica

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi, says he was in a dilemma as to which Lok Sabha constituency he should relinquish — Wayanad or Rae Bareli – but then in Wayanad, dropped enough hints that he will be dropping the Kerala seat.

State BJP chief K. Surendran, who had contested against Gandhi and finished a distant third, termed Gandhi’s indication “cheating”. Meanwhile, advertisement boards have come up in Wayanad which welcome Gandhi’s sister and party General Secretary Priyanka Gandhi to contest the by-election.

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi files nomination, says ‘mystified by love, affection of Wayanad people’

News April 3, 2024April 3, 2024 indica

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday filed his nomination from the Wayanad Lok Sabha seat where he is seeking re-election. He was accompanied by his sister Congress General Secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, and a host of party leaders. Before filing the nomination, Rahul Gandhi held a mega roadshow as thousands of his supporters lined up the streets.

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi to file nomination from Wayanad, Kerala on Wednesday

News April 2, 2024April 2, 2024 indica

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi will file his nomination in Wayanad on Wednesday from where he is seeking re-election. Before filing the papers, he will take part in a roadshow in the constituency. And after the process is complete, he will return to Delhi on the same day. Kerala goes to the polls on April 26 in the second phase of the Lok Sabha elections to elect all its 20 MPs.

Rahul Gandhi on Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra: “Presenting alternative vision before country”

News January 16, 2024January 17, 2024 indica

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday said that through ‘Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra’, his party is trying to present an alternative vision before the country, and took a dig at the BJP saying that ‘religion of politics’ should be followed, not ‘politics of religion’. Rahul Gandhi said that on one side, when the ideology of ‘hatred and injustice’ is being practised, Congress is focusing on the idea of ‘brotherhood and justice’.

Ram Temple event is an election, political function, Cong will skip it: Rahul Gandhi

News January 16, 2024January 17, 2024 indica

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday said that the Pran Pratishtha ceremony for Ayodhya’s new Ram Temple on January 22 is “an election and political function” and that’s why the Congress has decided to skip the event in Ayodhya. On the third day of his ongoing Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra (BJNY) which has now reached Nagaland, the Congress leader said that the event in Ayodhya is a political one as it is an RSS-BJP function.

Manipur CM Biren Singh denies permission to Rahul Gandhi’s Bharat Nyaya Yatra from Imphal

News January 10, 2024January 10, 2024 indica

Manipur Chief Minister N. Biren Singh on Wednesday declined to give permission to use Hapta Kangjeibung Palace compound ground in the state capital Imphal for launch of Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra led by former Congress party President Rahul Gandhi on January 14. After meeting the Chief Minister Manipur, state Congress President Keisham Meghachandra Singh said that the party is now considering three other alternative venues to launch the Yatra.

Justice Markandey Katju: Rahul Gandhi’s Bharat Nyaya Yatra is just another gimmick

News, Spotlight December 27, 2023December 27, 2023 indica

Justice Markandey Katju writes: The Congress party has announced that Rahul Gandhi will undertake a ‘Bharat Nyaya Yatra’ (The Indian Justice March) from Manipur to Mumbai from January 14 to March 20, 2024, and will cover a distance of 3860 miles (6200 km), passing through 14 states and 85 districts. This yatra is planned with an eye on the upcoming general elections. Gandhi’s Bharat Jodo Yatra (Unite India March) from Kanyakumari to Srinagar from September 7, 2022 to January 30, 2023, covered approximately 2500 miles (4000 km) and passed through 12 states.