The longest-serving president of the Indian National Congress, Indian MP Sonia Gandhi beamed with joy and pride as her daughter, Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, took oath as the Lok Sabha MP. Priyanka made her entry to the lower house of the Indian Parliament by virtue of her win from Kerala’s Wayanad in the bye-polls recently.
“We are all very happy and proud,” Sonia Gandhi told ANI as Priyanka began her maiden tenure as a Member of Parliament.
The president of Indian Overseas Congress USA Mohinder Singh Gilzian met Congress leaders Sonia
Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi on December 15. He discussed different issues being faced by non-
resident Indians.
She was questioned for six hours on Tuesday with with a lunch break in between. Her daughter Priyanka Gandhi Vadra will accompany her with a medicine box.
Congress Party interim president Sonia Gandhi is likely to depose before the Enforcement Directorate (ED) Tuesday for her second round of questioning in the money laundering case linked to the National Herald newspaper.
Security has been beefed up outside the Enforcement Directorate (ED) office in India’s capital New Delhi ahead of Congress Party leader Sonia Gandhi’s questioning in the National Herald case.
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Right from the day the Congress announced her candidature for the Wayanad Lok Seat by-poll, the only thing the people in Kerala were discussing was whether General Secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra would be able to beat her brother Rahul Gandhi’s victory margin, and on Saturday, she came quite close as she won her first election.
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.
Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi will file her nomination for the Wayanad Lok Sabha by-poll in Kerala on Wednesday, October 23, marking her electoral debut.
Priyanka will file the nomination papers in the presence of her mother and Congress Parliamentary Party Chairperson Sonia Gandhi, Congress chief Mallikarjun Kharge, her brother and Congress leader Rahul Gandhi, Congress general secretary KC Venugopal and a host of other leaders.
The Congress announced that senior party leader Rahul Gandhi will be the Leader of the Opposition in the 18th Lok Sabha.
“Congress MP Rahul Gandhi has been appointed as the LoP in the Lok Sabha,” said party General Secretary (Organization), K.C. Venugopal.
The Congress finally declared its candidates for the Amethi and Rae Bareli Lok Sabha constituencies of Uttar Pradesh after weeks of suspense. Rahul Gandhi has been fielded from Rae Bareli while Kishori Lal Sharma will be contesting from Amethi.
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi hit out at the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) during INDIA bloc’s mega event ‘Loktantra Bachao’ (save democracy) rally at Ramlila Maidan in the national capital, accusing them of orchestrating a game of “match-fixing” as the country gears up for the upcoming Lok Sabha polls.
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’.
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Thursday (India time) left from Delhi airport for a two-day visit to violence-hit Manipur. The Congress leader will be in Manipur on June 29 and 30 during which he is scheduled to visit relief camps and interact with civil society representatives in Imphal and Churachandpur.
The Indian Overseas Congress (IOC) honored one of its founding members, George Abraham, who is now the vice chairman of the United States chapter. Abraham received the Lifetime Achievement Award from Congress leader Rahul Gandhi.
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday moved Delhi’s Rouse Avenue Court seeking no objection for the issuance of a fresh ordinary passport to him. Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate (ACMM) Vaibhav Mehta will hear the plea on Wednesday. In 2015, the Court while granting bail to the applicant Rahul Gandhi in the National Herald case did not put any condition on travel for the applicant and others as well, clarified the associated lawyer.
Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra will walk the entire 120 km that her brother Rahul Gandhi’s Bharat Jodo Yatra (Unite India March) will travel in Uttar Pradesh from Tuesday.
The Supreme Court on Friday, November 11, ordered the release of six persons who had been convicted for the assassination of former prime minister Rajiv Gandhi in 1991. The apex court of India ordered the convicts’ release after two of them – S Nalini and RP Ravichandran – sought an early release from prison. All seven convicts were serving life sentences and had spent more than 30 years in jail.
Congress Party sources confirmed on Friday that Priyanka Gandhi Vadra will take part in the Bharat Jodo Yatra initiated by her brother Rahul on Saturday.
The Congress MP from Wayanad also attacked the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) for “taking control of all institutions”. “For us, this yatra is to connect with the people. We have taken out this yatra against the damage and hatred that BJP’s ideology has caused to this country,” Gandhi said.
The Congress party refused to comment officially on Friday, after a New York Times review said Barack Obama had referred to the party’s Rahul Gandhi as having a “nervous, unformed” quality.
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indica News Bureau- Congress rose against the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) with Satyagraha for Unity’ at Delhi’s Rajghat — a memorial of Mahatma Gandhi — organized by top Congress leadership, led by party chief Sonia Gandhi on December 23. Former party chief, Rahul Gandhi who also joined the protest on Monday attacked the BJP saying that they could […]
IANS- Maharashtra Chief Minister-designate and Shiv Sena President Uddhav B. Thackeray on Tuesday evening remembered his late father Bal Thackeray and thanked Congress President Sonia Gandhi and Nationalist Congress Party President Sharad Pawar for the trust reposed in him. Thackeray will be sworn-in as Chief Minister on December 1 in the evening at 5 pm, […]
Justice Markandey Katju- A big hue and cry have been raised by Congressmen over withdrawal of SPG (Special Protection Group) security cover for Sonia and Rahul Gandhi (though they will still get Z+ security), alleging it is an act of political vendetta. Indian official sources say this was done only after getting reports from […]
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