Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot on Sunday inaugurated 'Padharo Mhare Des' Digital Covid Relief Concert Series - an initiative of Rajasthan-based singer Manesha A.  Agarwal's Arpan Foundation to support the state's folk artists.Renowned artists participating...

Former US president Barack Obama's new book 'A Promised Land' lands a sharp left hook on Rahul Gandhi's "nervous, uninformed quality" while directing warm, not-so-political praise at Rahul's mother Sonia Gandhi, according to a book review Thursday in the New...

Ahead of the third and final phase of polling in the Bihar Assembly elections on November 7, all political parties have brought out their big guns.On Wednesday, former Congress President Rahul Gandhi held a rally in Araria. Addressing the gathering he said:...

Even as polling is underway for 94 seats in the second phase of assembly elections, former Congress president Rahul Gandhi arrived in Bihar for campaigning on Tuesday and targeted Prime Minister Narendra Modi and chief minister Nitish Kumar, saying the two...

Raising the issue of recently passed farm laws by the Centre, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi said that he is confident that Prime Minister Narendra Modi would reconsider them. In his address on the occasion of Chhattisgarh's 20th foundation day, the former Congress...

Former Congress President Rahul Gandhi said on Wednesday that effigies of Prime Minister Narendra Modi were burnt in Punjab on Dussehra, and not that of 'Ravan'. He said that burning the effigy of the Prime Minister was sad, but the youth are angry with him.Addressing...

Ahead of the Bihar Assembly elections, Congress President Sonia Gandhi has attacked the Modi government for what she called "targeting political opponents and civil society members" and cautioned that the world's largest democracy was at the crossroads as...

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday said that he "did not appreciate" the 'item' remark used by senior party leader and former Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Kamal Nath for the state's Dalit woman Minister Imarti Devi."Kamal Nathji is from my party, but personally...

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi, along with Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh, on Saturday kickstarted the second phase of Punjab’s Smart Village Campaign (SVC) with the virtual launch of a Rs 2775 crore campaign to power the state’s complete rural transformation.While...

Punjab Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh on Saturday joined Congress leader Rahul Gandhi in pledging to force the Union Government to revoke the draconian Farm Laws, which they said will be debated in the special session of the Vidhan Sabha on Monday with...

With the virtual inauguration of Smart Village Campaign Phase-Il through video conferencing by Congress leader Rahul Gandhi, the State Government’s ambitious Rural Transformation Program formally kicks start in the district.In the Smart Village Campaign Phase-Il...

Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra and other opposition parties in Uttar Pradesh on Tuesday criticised Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath over the rising crime graph in the state.Priyanka said, "The UP government's politically motivated narrative of justifying...

The Congress on Sunday demanded Karnataka Chief Minister BS Yeddyurappa's resignation and a probe by a Supreme Court Judge into an alleged bribery scam in the over Rs 662-crore housing project in Bengaluru, while questioning the BJP's "silence" on the issue."There...

Former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has congratulated the Gramodaya Chamber of Commerce and Technology (GCOT) for instituting the Gramodaya Bandhu Mitra Puraskar on the occasion of the 150th birth anniversary celebrations of Mahatma Gandhi.GCOT last week presented...

In the wake of assertions by the Haryana government to not allow Congress leader Rahul Gandhi to enter the state after his tractor rally in neighbouring Punjab, he was briefly stopped on the Punjab-Haryana border but was later allowed to enter after heated...

The 3-day Punjab `Kheti Bachao Yatra’ of Congress MP Rahul Gandhi and Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh culminated on Tuesday at the border along Haryana, with a vow by the two leaders to not budge even an inch from their principled stand in support...

Rejecting the suggestion that the Central Government was able to take unilateral decisions because of a weak Opposition, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday said “give me free press and other key institutions and this (Narendra Modi) government will not last...

Punjab Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh on Tuesday announced that his government will soon introduce a new scholarship scheme for Scheduled Caste (SC) students, who had been backstabbed by the central government, which had abruptly ended the post- matric...

Taking a dig at the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) for criticising his tractor ride on a `gaddi’ (cushion) put there by someone else’, Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday quipped that the Prime Minister’s new Air India One plane, bought for more than Rs 8000 crore of the...

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday said it was UP Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath’s prerogative to see an `international conspiracy’ in the Hathras incident but he personally sees in it a major tragedy.“Yogi Aditynath is entitled to his opinion, he can imagine...

Recalling a childhood memory of how a handful of Sikhs had protected the family when his grandmother Indira Gandhi lost the parliamentary election in 1977, Rahul Gandhi today said he felt he owed a debt to Punjab and Punjabis.“There was nobody in the House except...

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Monday said the Chinese had dared to enter India and kill our soldiers because the Narendra Modi government had weakened our nation with its anti-national policies and actions, of which the Farm Laws were the latest example.China...

Fatehgarh Sahib Member Parliament (MP) Dr Amar Singh on Sunday, handed over copies of resolutions passed against the three anti-farmer laws by panchayats and gram sabhas of various villages of Raikot constituency to former AICC President Rahul Gandhi in the presence...

Continuing the pressure on the NDA government over the three new agriculture-related laws, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Monday said that the Centre's "assault" on the farmers would lead to ruination of the country.He however warned the Centre that the agitating...

The Rahul Gandhi-Captain Amarinder Singh tractor juggernaut was unstoppable for the second day of the 3-day Kheti Bachao Yatra on Monday, with the two leaders continuing with their unsparing attack on the Modi government for their shameless bid to destroy...

A day after Rahul Gandhi visited Hathras, on Sunday he is leading a farmers' agitation in Punjab and he will be in the state for three days while Priyanka Gandhi Vadra has kept the pressure on the Uttar Pradesh government with state-wide protests in UP...

Taking on the Akalis over their treachery with Punjab, Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh on Sunday said the people of the state would take care of these `gaddars’ but the real fight was with the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) led central government, which...

Punjab Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh on Sunday joined Congress leader Rahul Gandhi to kickstart a 3-day `Kheti Bachao Yatra’ with a vow to fight the black Farm Laws and save the farmers from the clutches of big corporates like the Ambanis and the Adanis,...

High drama prevailed on Thursday after Uttar Pradesh police personnel pushed former Congress President Rahul Gandhi to the ground near the Yamuna Expressway and detained him along with his sister and party General Secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, while they...

High drama prevailed on Thursday after Uttar Pradesh Police personnel pushed former Congress President Rahul Gandhi on the ground near the Yamuna Expressway and detained him along with his sister and party General Secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, while they...

High drama prevailed on Thursday After Uttar Pradesh Police personnel pushed former Congress President Rahul Gandhi on the ground on the Yamuna Expressway and detained him, while he was walking towards Hathras to meet the family of the rape victim.Gandhi,...

"Is it a crime to be a daughter of a poor family?" asked Congress interim President Sonia Gandhi in a video statement on the Hathras gangrape. She alleged that the issue was sought to be hushed up while referring to the victim as "Hathras' Nirbhaya"."I want...

Responding to the ministers' press briefing led by Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on the agri Bills, the Congress called the behaviour of the government as a "black day" in Indias democratic history.Addressing the press conference, Congress leaders K.C. Venugopal...

Amid the ongoing defections ahead of the bypolls to 27 Assembly seats in Madhya Pradesh, former BJP MLA Parul Sahu joined the Congress on Friday.Sahu, who had become a BJP legislator in 2013 from Surkhi seat in Sagar district, joined the Congress in the presence...

Continuing his attack on the government over the state of economy, former Congress President Rahul Gandhi has alleged that the unplanned lockdown broke the backbone of Indian economy and it was the Modi government's third attack on the unorganised sector.Releasing...

As India surpassed Brazil in the number of coronavirus cases on Monday to occupy the second position in the world tally, the Congress again hit out at the Centre for what the party called the failure to check the pandemic and demanded that the Prime Minister...

Keeping up his attack on the government, former Congress President Rahul Gandhi has slammed the Modi government on the GST, alleging that it was the second big blow to the unorganised sector of the economy and that its faulty implementation had destroyed the...

The Congress again attacked the central government on Friday over what it called increasing unemployment and bad condition of the Indian economy and demanded creation of jobs and an end to privatisation.The party alleged that the BJP-led NDA government had...

About Pranab Mukherjee, Congress leader Jairam Ramesh once told me that he was like Dhrupad Sangeet. If you don't understand Dhrupad or if your ears are not trained to listen to Dhrupad, then it will be difficult for you to enjoy the music.The analogy with...

Pranab Mukherjee -- a former President, the man who missed becoming the Prime Minister of India by a whisker, the Congress party's trouble-shooter during the UPA rule and the unlikely Congressman with proximity to Prime Minister Narendra Modi (the Prime Minister...

Taking a swipe at the Central government, interim Congress president Sonia Gandhi said on Saturday that anti-national and anti-poor forces were spreading hatred and "venom of violence" in the country, and the "influence of dictatorship" on democracy was rising.While...

Dr. Harsh Vardhan, Union Minister of Health and Family Welfare along with Ashok Gehlot, Chief Minister of Rajasthan digitally inaugurated two new medical colleges and three Super Speciality Blocks in Rajasthan in the presence of Sh. Ashwini Kumar Choubey,...

After the storm over the "colluding with BJP" remark on Monday, senior Congress leader Ghulam Nabi Azad clarified that former party chief Rahul Gandhi didn't say that the letter in question was written at the behest of the BJP, neither in the Congress Working...

Senior Congress leader and former Union minister Kapil Sibal on Monday withdrew his angry tweets saying he was informed by Rahul Gandhi personally that the former party chief had never made the "colluding with BJP" remark attributed to him.In his new tweet,...

Member of Parliament in the Rajya Sabha and former State President of the Congress in Punjab, Partap Singh Bajwa has upped the ante against Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh for his autocratic style of functioning and has alleged that the CM is shielding...

Congress leader Shaktisinh Gohil on Wednesday claimed that during UPA-II, then Prime Minister Manmohan Singh had offered Rahul Gandhi his place as he wanted to step down due to health issues.However, Rahul Gandhi turned down the proposal and requested Manmohan...

Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot on Wednesday said his government did not leave any stone unturned to save the lives of the people amid the Covid-19 outbreak and performed better on all parameters as compared to other states.Gehlot said the government did...

Rajasthan's former Deputy Chief Minister Sachin Pilot visited Tonk, his assembly constituency, on Wednesday to a spirited welcome by people at various places, and said this had left him "humbled".Addressing a public hearing in Tonk, Pilot said: "I am not a part...

Former Deputy Chief Minister of Rajasthan Sachin Pilot said on Friday that it doesn't matter who sits where inside the Assembly, what matters is who holds place in people's minds and hearts.Pilot's seating arrangement was changed in the House when the special...

After the resolution of the crisis arising out of rebellion by Congress MLAs owing allegiance to Sachin Pilot, Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot on Tuesday said that he would try to know their grievances and then try to win them over.Gehlot was speaking...

The can may well have been kicked down the road in Rajasthan but the vexed leadership issue remains wide open. Contrary to popular perception, former Deputy Chief Minister Sachin Pilot, who camped in Gurugram these past few days, has not beaten a hasty retreat.Optically,...

Amid a debate within the Congress about its performance during 10 years of UPA rule over Rajya Sabha members close to Rahul Gandhi have asked for introspection, former Union minister Manish Tewari on Sunday again defended interim party chief Sonia Gandhi...

Even as the veterans vs Team Rahul war within the Congress is out in the open, former Union Minister Manish Tewari on Saturday hit out at party leaders who questioned 10 years of the United Progressive Alliance rule at the Centre, calling them "ill-informed".Interestingly,...

Congress General Secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Saturday wrote to Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath over the deteriorating law and order situation in the state, called kidnapping a flourishing industry as such people living under a cloud of fear.In...

Former Congress chief Rahul Gandhi in his conversation with 2006 Nobel Peace Prize winner and Bangladesh Grameen Bank founder Muhammad Yunus said on Friday that the novel coronavirus pandemic has given an opportunity to have a brand new imagination and emphasised...

Amid the faceoff between the Rajasthan Governor and the Ashok Gehlot government over convening the special Assembly session, senior Congress leader Ahmed Patel said it could set a "dangerous precedent."Attacking Rajasthan Governor Kalraj Mishra without naming...

Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Saturday wrote to Uttar Pradesh chief minister Yogi Adityanath, raising the issue of rising coronavirus cases and low testing in the state. She said state government seems to have adopted 'No test, no corona'...

Continuing his attack on the Modi government, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday taunted the much-hyped 'Atmanirbhar' (self reliant) programme of the Centre and called out the "misplaced" priorities given to events since February when Covid cases were just...

Bhupesh Baghel on Monday launched the 'Godhan Nyaya Yojana' in 2,408 rural areas and 377 urban areas during the first phase of the scheme in the state.Under the scheme the government will purchase cow dung at Rs 2 per kg and sell the vermi-compost at Rs 8 per...

Amid the ongoing political turmoil in Rajasthan, Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot on Monday fired a fresh salvo at his political rival Sachin Pilot alleging that he played a very dirty game and conspired to topple his own government. After terming him 'Nikamma'...