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Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, the Congress general secretary, was unable to join her brother Rahul Gandhi's Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra in Uttar Pradesh due to health reasons. She was hospitalized for dehydration and nausea, as confirmed by party sources. Priyanka expressed her disappointment in a post on X, stating, «I was eagerly waiting for Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra to reach UP. But due to an illness, I had to be admitted to the hospital today itself. I will join the Yatra as soon as I feel better.» She extended her best wishes to the yatris and her brother for the journey from Chandauli to Banaras. The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) expressed skepticism over Priyanka's absence, with IT cell chief Amit Malviya suggesting underlying tensions within the Congress party. Malviya highlighted what he called «the irreconcilable gap» between the Gandhi siblings. He pointed out Priyanka's absence at the beginning of Yatra 2.0 and her current absence as the yatra reached UP, implying a rift in the party's leadership.

Indian National Congress on Wednesday announced the list of six candidates from Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh and Telangana for the Rajya Sabha elections to be held on February 27. The party has fielded AICC treasurer Ajay Maken, Rajya Sabha MP Syed Naseer Hussain and GC Chandrashekhar from Karnataka. Ashok Singh has been fielded from Madhya Pradesh, while former MP Renuka Chowdhury and Anil Kumar Yadav will contest from Telangana.

Himanta Biswa Sarma said that Gandhi told the Congress MLAs to either “tear into" the Assam chief minister or be ready to get suspended from the party for five to 15 years. However, the CM said, the Congress MLAs supported the Assam government and the House functioned peacefully. Sharing a video on the microblogging website X, the Assam CM, in an interaction with media persons, said, "Listen to a story - When Rahul Gandhi came to Assam, he called all the Congress MLAs in his luxurious bus and threatened them that the Assam Assembly should not be allowed to function." "We also gave him a gift.

Congress on Wednesday nominated its former party chief Sonia Gandhi and senior leaders Ajay Maken and Abhishek Singhvi for the Rajya Sabha election to be held on February 27. Gandhi, who was accompanied by her son Rahul Gandhi and daughter Priyanka Gandhi Vadra besides former Rajasthan chief minister Ashok Gehlot, filed her nomination papers in Jaipur. The 77-year-old former Congress president is set to enter the Upper House for the first time from Rajasthan. Gandhi will fill the seat that will fall vacant in April after former prime minister Manmohan Sigh completes his Rajya Sabha tenure. Party treasurer Maken has been fielded from Karnataka and Abhishek Singhvi from Himachal Pradesh. The party has its government in both states. Maken had unsuccessfully contested the Rajya Sabha election from Haryana last year.

New Delhi: Congress Parliamentary Party chairperson Sonia Gandhi on Wednesday filed her nomination paper for a Rajya Sabha berth from Rajasthan. Accompanied by her children and top party leaders, Gandhi filed her nomination papers before the officials in Jaipur. With this, 77-year-old Gandhi opted out of contesting yet another election to retain her Rae Bareli Lok Sabha seat in UP which she represented five times in a row since 2004.

Congress president Sonia Gandhi on Wednesday reached Jaipur to file her nomination papers for the upcoming Rajya Sabha polls from Rajasthan. It will be the 77-year-old leader's first term in the Upper House after serving five terms as a Lok Sabha MP. Sonia Gandhi was accompanied by her son Rahul Gandhi and daughter Priyanka Gandhi Vadra and party chief Mallikarjun Kharge.

Sonia Gandhi left her residence early on Wednesday morning for Rajasthan from where she set to file her nomination for the Rajya Sabha elections. Sonia Gandhi will file nomination papers from Rajasthan. This will be the 77-year-old leader's first term in the Upper House after serving five terms as a Lok Sabha MP.

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Congress president Sonia Gandhi will file her nomination from Rajasthan for the upcoming Rajya Sabha polls, party sources said on Tuesday. The sources said she will be travelling to Jaipur and party president Mallikarjun Kharge and her daughter Priyanka Gandhi Vadra are likely to accompany her for the filing of nomination papers. Gandhi, who represented Rae Bareli in Lok Sabha, will not contest the next general election. «She is likely to file nomination for Rajya Sabha on Wednesday,» a source said.

farmers protest in the country, Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday announced that Congress will provide a legal guarantee of Minimum Support Price (MSP) to every farmer on crops as per the Swaminathan Commission. «Farmer brothers, today is a historic day! Congress has decided to give legal guarantee of MSP to every farmer on crops as per Swaminathan Commission. This step will change the lives of 15 crore farmer families by ensuring their prosperity. This is the first guarantee of Congress on the path of justice,» said the Congress leader in a post on social media platform 'X.'

Congress leader Ashok Chavan has resigned from the Congress party, the senior Congress leader is likely to soon join the Bharatiya Janata party. Chavan wrote a two line letter to state Congress Chief Nana Patole saying, “I have resigned from the primary membership of the Indian National Congress party on 12-2-2024.” Significantly in Chavan’s two line resignation also indicated that he has resigned as a Congress MLA too, as in his letter to Patole he has identified himself as a ‘former’ MLA from Bhokar. There is talk that Chavan could either be the Rajya Sabha candidate from the BJP or stand in the Lok Sabha polls on a BJP ticket.

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Monday hit out at the BJP-led Centre while claiming that people in the country were not getting employment and were facing the wrath of inflation. Addressing a gathering in Chhattisgarh's Korba district during his 'Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra', Gandhi asked the people to wake up, claiming their pockets were being robbed and they were being misled. The backward classes, Dalits and Adivasis (tribals) comprise 74 per cent of the country's population, but not a single person from these communities is the owner or in the management of India's top 200 companies which are being given «all the money of the country», he claimed. The BJP calls it a «Hindu Rashtra», but 74 per cent of the population and the poor from the general country have been getting nothing. They are only for beating «thali» (steel plate), ringing «ghanta» (bell), showing mobile phones and dying in hunger, he further claimed targeting the Centre.

Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra' led by Congress leader Rahul Gandhi resumed in Raigarh district of Chhattisgarh on Sunday after a two-day break. Gandhi offered garland at Mahatma Gandhi's statue at the Gandhi Chowk here and the yatra further proceeded for Kharsia assembly constituency in the district. A huge crowd of Congress leaders and supporters gathered at the square and followed Gandhi, who was in an open jeep accompanied by state Congress in-charge Sachin Pilot, state party chief Dipak Baij and Leader of Opposition Charan Das Mahant. The yatra, a mass outreach programme, had entered Raigarh on Thursday from Odisha and after a two-day break it resumed on Sunday afternoon afternoon, a Congress functionary here said.

Acharya Pramod Krishnam stated on Sunday that there can be no compromise on Ram and the nation. In a Hindi post on the X platform, Krishnam tagged Congress leader Rahul Gandhi, affirming, “There can be no compromise on Ram and the nation." According to an official statement issued on Saturday, Acharya Pramod Krishnam was expelled from the party for six years due to indiscipline and making anti-party remarks.

Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) will be notified and implemented before the upcoming Lok Sabha polls, home minister Amit Shah said at the ET Now Global Business Summit on Saturday. He criticised Congress leader Rahul Gandhi for questioning Prime Minister Narendra Modi's caste, saying the opposition party was twisting facts and creating controversy. The legislation is aimed at conferring citizenship on persecuted non-Muslim migrants, and not to take that status away from anyone, said Shah. It was passed by the Parliament in December 2019, sparking protests at the time, but hasn't been implemented yet. The general elections are expected in April-May.

Narendra Modi is not OBC by birth, he has been made OBC by the BJP government of Gujarat. He can never do justice to the rights and share of the backward people" Rahul Gandhi had claimed. Responding to his allegations, Amit Shah said, “Rahul Gandhi has habit of telling lies and repeating lies.

Amit Shah on Saturday said it is very unfortunate that there is a debate on the caste of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and alleged that Congress leader Rahul Gandhi has a habit of telling lies publicly and repeating those thereafter. Shah also said it was a Congress government in Gujarat that included Modi's caste in the list of Other Backward Classes (OBC) in 1994 and the Centre included the prime minister's caste in its OBC list in 2000. «Modi's caste was listed in Gujarat as OBC on July 25, 1994. At that time, the chief minister of Gujarat was Chhabildas Mehta and the party in power was the Congress. Till that time, Modi had not contested a single election. He used to work for the organisation only. The question of his caste did not come at all. »Subsequently, the Gujarat government recommended for the inclusion of his caste in the central OBC list. It was finally included in the central OBC list in 2000. At that time also, Modi was not in a position of power — not an MP, not an MLA nor even a sarpanch. He became the chief minister in 2001. These people have a habit of distorting facts," Shah said at the ET NOW Global Business Summit 2024 here.

Rahul Gandhi for questioning PM Narendra Modi's caste. The Home Minister was speaking at the ET Now-Global Business summit. Earlier on February 8 during his Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra Rahul Gandhi had claimed that PM Modi is not an OBC by birth.

Lok Sabha Elections 2024: The BJP will get 370 seats and the NDA more than 400 in the upcoming Lok Sabha polls and form the government for a third consecutive term under the leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Union Home Minister Amit Shah said here on Saturday. Shah asserted that there is no suspense over the outcome of the Lok Sabha polls and even the Congress and other opposition parties have realised that they will again have to sit in the opposition benches. «We have abrogated Article 370 (of the Constitution, which gave a special status to the erstwhile state of Jammu and Kashmir). So we believe that the people of the country will bless the BJP with 370 seats and the NDA with over 400 seats,» Shah said at the ET NOW Global Business Summit 2024. Asked about the possibility of the Rashtriya Lok Dal (RLD), headed by Jayant Choudhary, Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) and some other regional parties joining the National Democratic Alliance (NDA), the home minister said the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) «believes in family planning but not in politics», giving an indication that more parties may join the ruling coalition.

Rahul Gandhi that Prime Minister Narendra Modi is not an OBC as he was born into the general category, former Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot on Friday said the latter's caste was not included in Other Backward Classes (OBC) list as per the recommendations made by Mandal Commission and Bakshi Committee. In a post on X, Ashok Gehlot said, «Rahul Gandhi has spoken the truth on the issue of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's inclusion in OBC because Modi/Ghanchi caste was not included in OBC list in the recommendations of Mandal Commission and Bakshi Committee, which was formed in 1978 for backward classes in Gujarat. His caste was that of a business community in the entire country. People from Jain, Maheshwari, and Agarwal communities commonly use the Modi surname.» Gehlot further said if PM Modi considers himself as the biggest supporter of the OBC community, then he shoudl have a nationwide caste census conducted at the earliest.

Kishanganj (Bihar), Congress leader Rahul Gandhi's 'Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra' on Monday entered Bihar through Kishanganj. The Yatra comes a day after the Congress was left high and dry with former ally Nitish Kumar, the Bihar chief minister, making a return to the BJP-led NDA.