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NEW DELHI:  Smriti Irani today tweeted a thank-you for Amethi, where her victory over Congress president Rahul Gandhi may be this election’s show-stopper. “A new morning for Amethi, a new pledge. You placed your trust in development, grateful to Amethi,” said the BJP leader. Rahul Gandhi’s defeat in Amethi – he won from the second seat he contested, Kerala’s Wayanad – ... Read More »

NEW DELHI: Rahul Gandhi tweeted today that the ruling BJP’s manifesto for the national election was the “voice of an isolated man, short-sighted and arrogant”. At the launch of the BJP manifesto on Monday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi had remarked that “people sitting in AC rooms cannot fix poverty”. The Congress president’s tweet is seen by many as a response ... Read More »

Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra will kick-start another campaign in Uttar Pradesh today over a week after her boat yatra across four districts of eastern Uttar Pradesh. She would launch the campaign from Rahul Gandhi’s Lok Sabha seat, Amethi. She would then visit Rae Bareli, her mother Sonia Gandhi’s parliamentary seat. In a schedule sent out to journalists, the Congress ... Read More »

NEW DELHI: Top leaders of the Congress will today meet to discuss and give a final shape to the party’s manifesto for the Lok Sabha election starting April 11. The CWC is the highest decision-making body of the party and is chaired by Congress president Rahul Gandhi. In Uttar Pradesh, actor-turned-politician Hema Malini will hold a rally with Chief Minister ... Read More »

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Kerala Congress screening committee will finalise the distribution of seats after discussing with party chief Rahul Gandhi, when he visits the state on Thursday. A committee meeting was held on Monday in Delhi under the leadership of General Secretary KC Venugopal. The meeting was attended by former Kerala Chief Minister Oommen Chandy, All India Congress Committee (AICC) general secretary ... Read More »

NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi also must be investigated in the Rafale fighter jet deal, Congress president Rahul Gandhi said today, stepping up the attack on the government. His comments come a day after he said there is “enough evidence” to prosecute PM Modi in the matter. Mr Gandhi, who has been alleging corruption and crony capitalism in the ... Read More »

The current session of Parliament is paralysed, thanks to the growing solidarity among the opposition parties to embarrass the Narendra Modi government over its decision to demonetise old notes of Rs 1,000 and Rs 500. And all of this in the name of the “common men” who have been forced to stand in long queues in front of banks and ... Read More »

Foreign Secretary S Jaishankar on Tuesday is understood to have differed with the claims of Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar on the surgical strikes carried out by the Indian Army’s special forces across the LoC on September 29 to demolish terror camps. Briefing the parliamentary panel on external affairs, the foreign secretary was quoted by MPs as saying that, “the army ... Read More »