The seven-phase-long general election of the world’s largest democracy started on April 19 and concluded on June 1, with the Bharatiya Janata Party-led NDA winning 293 seats and INDIA Bloc triumphing in an unexpected 232 constituencies. However, sending shockwaves around the political spectrum in both India and overseas was the BJP’s underwhelming performance.
iNDICA NEWS BUREAU- The counting of votes for the 2024 Lok Sabha elections is currently underway, with the NDA leading the charts in early trends. As per early trends, the NDA is leading in 286 seats, while the opposition INDIA bloc is leading at 213 seats. The elections held for the 543 Lok Sabha seats […]
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi traveled on a state roadways bus in Greater Hyderabad after addressing a public meeting on Thursday night and interacted with the surprised passengers.
Congress party leader Rahul Gandhi’s decision to contest in the ongoing Indian parliamentary elections from Rae Bareilly constituency in UP, instead of Amethi, has been widely commented on by the Indian media, as if it was a great historical event.
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.
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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 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.
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.
The Congress party on Thursday fielded its big guns Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge and former Presidents Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi in a news conference as they trained their guns on the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party over the “freezing” of the party’s bank accounts. Addressing a press conference, the Congress President said that it was a “dangerous game” and demanded a “level playing field.”
As India begins its gigantic election process, the best that is being expected of its diffident opposition alliance is that they deliver a sobriety check to Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) juggernaut.
Congress General Secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra will join Rahul Gandhi when he will enter Uttar Pradesh from the Naubatpur border in Chandauli district with his ‘Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra’ (BJNY) on Friday. In a significant development, Apna Dal (Kameravadi) leader Pallavi Patel has also announced that she will join Rahul Gandhi’s yatra.
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 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 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 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.
Justice Markandey Katju writes: Results of the legislative assembly elections in five states in India were declared on December 3 and 4. The BJP won a huge majority in the first three states, and the Congress party in Telengana. The Zoram People’s Movement (ZPM) won a majority in Mizoram. I submit that all these developments and activities are irrelevant for the Indian masses.
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi, who is on a Europe tour, on Friday slammed the government for not inviting party chief Mallikarjun Kharge to the dinner hosted by President Droupadi Murmu, saying it shows that they don’t value the leader of 60% of India’s population.
Former Congress president Rahul Gandhi will contest the 2024 Lok Sabha elections from Amethi, newly appointed Uttar Pradesh Congress chief Ajay Rai said on Friday. Rahul, who had been representing the Amethi Lok Sabha seat since 2004, suffered a shocking defeat in the Gandhi bastion in 2019 when he lost to BJP’s Smriti Irani.
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday extended his wishes on India’s Independence Day to the people of the country and called Bharat Mata as the voice of every Indian. Taking to social media platform X, formerly known as Twitter, the Congress leader said, “Bharat Mata is the voice of every Indian! Happy Independence Day to all the countrymen.”
Justice Markandey Katju writes: Rahul Gandhi’s recent speech in Lok Sabha (the lower house of the Indian Parliament) during the No-Confidence Motion proceedings on Manipur is being hailed by some as historic, as if it were a speech of Demosthenes, Cicero, Daniel Webster, Abraham Lincoln, Winston Churchill, or Martin Luther King, Jr.
The Congress Party will move the no-confidence motion against the Narendra Modi-led government in Lok Sabha on Tuesday, and the discussion on it is likely to be initiated by Rahul Gandhi, whose membership of the House was reinstated on Monday.
Even as the Congress is in celebratory mood after the Supreme Court stayed the conviction of former party chief Rahul Gandhi in Modi surname remark defamation case, the Indian Overseas Congress is all set to organise a programme in New York over the top court’s judgement.
In a big win for Rahul Gandhi, the Supreme Court on Friday stayed conviction of the former Congress President in the ‘Modi surname’ defamation case, which cost him his Lok Sabha membership, saying that no reasons were given by the trial judge for imposing the maximum punishment of two years in the case.
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.
