The black money stashed in banks abroad belonged to the people and must be utilised for their welfare, Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi said Saturday. “The Indian Youth Congress is ready to ensure that this money can be channelized for public welfare activities,” Gandhi told reporters here while replying to a question on the huge [...]
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Black money should be used for public welfare: Rahul Gandhi
January 29th, 2011 |
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Give 10 years to politics, Rahul urges youth
January 29th, 2011 |
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Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi Saturday appealed to the youth to give 10 years of their life to politics if they want to see change in the country. “I assure you, after 10 years, you will be proud of your decision, and the country’s politics will take a new direction,” Gandhi said, urging educated young [...]
Political parties lack democracy: Rahul Gandhi
January 29th, 2011 |
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Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi Saturday said that political parties lack democracy but urged the youth to join politics through the Congress. “Political parties lack democracy, their doors are closed,” Gandhi said while appealing to young men and women to join his party. Gandhi was addressing the media on the final day of his three-day [...]
Rahul Gandhi begins three-day Maharashtra visit
January 27th, 2011 |
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Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi arrived here Thursday on a three-day whirlwind tour of Maharashtra to boost the party’s membership drive among backward castes, minorities and women. After landing in Nagpur, Gandhi proceeded by helicopter to attend a Scheduled Tribes convention in Gadchiroli. He will also attend an Other Backward Castes (OBC) convention in Buldhana [...]
Rahul Gandhi on two-day Tamil Nadu visit
December 22nd, 2010 |
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Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi arrived here Wednesday on a two-day visit to Tamil Nadu to enthuse more youth and women to join the party’s youth wing. He was accorded a warm reception by state Congress Chief K.V. Thankabalu and other leaders at the airport. Gandhi thereafter meet the office bearers of the state Youth [...]
Hindu extremists “bigger threat†to India than Muslim militants: Rahul Gandhi to US
December 17th, 2010 |
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Hindu extremist groups could pose a greater threat to India than Muslim militants, Congress General Secretary Rahul Gandhi told the US ambassador to India, Timothy Roemer, at a lunch last year, a diplomatic cable unveiled by whistle-blower website WikiLeaks has revealed. Gandhi- considered a likely prime ministerial candidate and a scion of India”s leading political [...]
All credit to Nitish Kumar for success in Bihar polls: Congress
November 24th, 2010 |
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The Congress today credited Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar for the ruling JD (U)-BJP combine”s victory in the Bihar Assembly polls. Party spokesperson Jayanthi Natarajan said: ‘”All credit to him (Nitish Kumar) for his success…law and order did improve under his regime,” About her party”s poor performance in the polls, Natarajan said there was always [...]
BJP leader Joshi praises Rahul Gandhi for reaching out to common man
November 1st, 2010 |
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Senior Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Murli Manohar Joshi praised Congress General Secretary Rahul Gandhi for being able to reach out to the common man. Addressing a press conference here on Sunday, Joshi said Gandhi is doing a great job and political leaders should follow in his footsteps. “He’s (Rahul Gandhi) doing a good job [...]
Rahul Gandhi immature: BJP leader Shahi
October 8th, 2010 |
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Miffed with Congress General Secretary Rahul Gandhi for equating the banned Students Islamic Movement of India (SIMI) with the Rashtriya Swayamsewak Sangh (RSS), the BJP”s Uttar Pradesh unit president Surya Pratap Shahi described Gandhi as ”immature” in his approach to politics. Addressing media here on Thursday, Shahi said: “To equate our nationalist philosophy with extremist [...]
Rahul Gandhi to visit Assam today
September 23rd, 2010 |
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Congress General Secretary Rahul Gandhi will pay a one-day visit to Assam on Thursday during which he will interact with the students of IIT-Guwahati and Assam Central University. Gandhi is expected to arrive around 10:30 a.m. at Silchar and fly by a chopper to the university campus, where he would interact for about an hour [...]
Land acquisition not at cost of fertile land : Sonia Gandhi
September 9th, 2010 |
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Congress President Sonia Gandhi on Thursday reacting to the verdict of the Supreme Court that endorsed the Mayawati Government””s acquisition of 25 million square metres of land along the six-lane Yamuna Expressway Project connecting New Delhi to Agra and Mathura, said land acquisition should not result in loss of fertile land. “We must protect the [...]
Ranbir turns Rahul Gandhi!
May 28th, 2010 |
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The famous of Indian Politician, better known as Poster Boy, Rahul Gandhi, was the one who travelled by the local from Dadar to Ghatkopar for the very first time in February 2010 in the political history. He did this to defy the Shiv Sena and to prove that the state exists for all Indians…
On the [...]
Congress’ marches in Uttar Pradesh lose their leaders
April 20th, 2010 |
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Within a week of Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi flagging off ten “chetna yatras” (awakening marches) to rejuvenate the party in Uttar Pradesh, most leaders have deserted the campaign, while vulgar dances at a rally Monday evening have embarrassed the party.
While party MPs P.L.Punia, Praveen Singh Aron and Jagdambika Pal, who were leading three of [...]
Rahul challenges Mayawati in her Dalit bastion
April 14th, 2010 |
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Throwing a challenge to Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati, Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi Wednesday accused her of neglecting the welfare of the poor she claimed to represent.
The son of Congress president Sonia Gandhi also asserted that he was confident of bringing the country’s oldest political party to power in the state.
Visibly impressed by the [...]
Rahul to pay tribute to Ambedkar pic not statue in Mayawati land
April 14th, 2010 |
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Denied permission to garland a statue of B.R. Ambedkar in this town named after him, Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi has opted to offer floral tributes to a picture of the architect of the constitution on his birth anniversary here Wednesday.
Local Congress workers have hastily mobilised a large portrait of Ambedkar, which has been placed [...]
In Rahul’s footsteps, Congress builds a youth base
April 13th, 2010 |
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Under Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi’s keen eye, the Congress plans to induct and train 15,000 volunteers, drawing them from every village block, in the next seven months to build a young leadership with strong organisational skills.
The Seva Dal, a frontal body of the Congress working at the grassroots, will select and train two youths [...]
Varun targets Maya, Rahul, calls cow slaughter crime
March 29th, 2010 |
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Bharatiya Janata Party MP Varun Gandhi delivered a fiery speech here Monday, calling for a ban on cow slaughter. He also targeted Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati and his cousin Rahul Gandhi whom he called a “handsome face”.
Hundreds of men, women and even children sweated it out to listen to the 30-year-old Gandhi’s 20-minute high [...]
Rahul Gandhi meets officials to review projects
March 26th, 2010 |
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Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi Friday met officials and public representatives to review developmental projects funded by the central government in his constituency here in Amethi.
He is on a two-day visit to Amethi in Uttar Pradesh, about 150 km from Lucknow.
Congress spokesperson Akhilesh Pratap Singh told IANS that Gandhi’s meeting began around noon and was [...]