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Rahul Gandhi has hit out at the BJP during an interaction with students and academics in Paris, saying that the governing party is out to get power at any cost. When asked about the debate around the name of the country, Gandhi noted that both India and Bharat are documented in the Constitution and therefore, the government was acting in “strange ways" because they are “irritated" with the name of the Opposition’s Indian National Developmental Inclusive Alliance (I.N.D.I.A.). "There is something deeper that is going on, which is that people who want to change the name of anything are basically trying to deny history.

Alliance, claiming that the Congress uses India and Bharat as per its political convenience. The Assam chief minister called the opposition leaders “the leaders of duplicates" and said that the Congress grabbed the Gandhi surname at first and then they took up the name INDIA for their alliance. “When the time to gather votes comes, the Congress people conduct Bharat Jodo Yatra.

Rahul Gandhi said during an interaction with students and academics in Paris, adding that ruling party is out to get power at any cost, the PTI reported Sunday. “I have read Gita, I've read a number of the Upanishads, I've read many Hindu books; there is nothing Hindu about what the BJP does, absolutely nothing," the PTI quoted the Congress leader as saying, in response to a question about the rise of “Hindu nationalism" in India. "I have not read anywhere, in no Hindu book, from no learned Hindu person have I ever heard that you should terrorise, harm people who are weaker than you.

DMK leaders' remarks on Sanatan Dharma, senior BJP leader Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi on Saturday said that attacking the 'Sanatan Dharma' has become a «fashion» for the «frustrated fraternity» but their «bankruptcy will backfire».

Rahul Gandhi said. This is Rahul Gandhi's first foreign trip after the restoration of his Lok Sabha membership following the Supreme Court's stay on his conviction in the ‘Modi-surname’ remark. The Europe trip comes at a time when New Delhi is hosting the G20 Summit and heads of all major states are arriving in India's capital for the G20 summit on 9 and 10 September.

Ashok Gehlot on Thursday said that Congress leader Rahul Gandhi's Bharat Jodo Yatra «gave the country hope for a peaceful future» and «weaved a thread of love and unity.» Speaking on the first anniversary of the party's Kanyakumari to Kashmir Bharat Jodo Yatra, Gehlot said on 'X', «One year ago today, Rahul Gandhi took out the Bharat Jodo Yatra. What this yatra did for India was truly unique and transformative.» «It gave hope for a new peaceful future to a country battling divisive forces and weaved a thread of love and unity.

BJP leader Ravi Shankar Prasad Thursday charged the Congress top leadership with maintaining «silence» over controversial remarks about Hindu faith made by some of its own leaders, besides Tamil Nadu ally DMK. Addressing a press conference here, Prasad, a former union minister asked whether «a decision was taken to denigrate Hindus» at the recently held meeting of the Congress-led coalition INDIA. «It is not for no reason that the coalition has been called ghamandia.

Joshi said Wednesday the Congress party and the Gandhi family must condemn DMK leader Udhayanidhi Stalin's remarks on the Sanatan Dharma if they really believe in equal respect for all religions as their silence will amount to endorsing the controversial comments. Speaking to reporters, Joshi said Congress leader and Karnataka minister Priyank Kharge also supported Stalin's comments. He demanded condemnation from senior Congress leaders including Sonia and Rahul Gandhi for these remarks. Taking on opposition leaders, he said they don't have the «courage» to criticise other religions even though they have shown little reform over centuries.

Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge on Wednesday said the alliance of like-minded opposition parties named INDIA has worried the BJP which is now trying to drop India and keep only Bharat as the country's name. «The Constitution states India means Bharat.

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi will hold extensive interactions with EU parliamentarians, students and the Indian diaspora during his almost week-long visit to Europe, which began on Tuesday. Sources said Gandhi will meet and hold consultations with EU MPs on September 7 in Brussels, the first of his interactions during his visit.

Supreme Court seeking quashing of the August 7 notification which restored the Lok Sabha membership of Congress leader Rahul Gandhi following the apex court order staying his conviction in a 2019 defamation case over his Modi surname remark. The top court had on August 4 stayed his conviction in the defamation case.

Narendra Modi also extended Teachers' Day greetings on Tuesday. In a post on ‘X’, the PM said, “Teachers play a key role in building our future and inspiring dreams.

Manmohan Singh. Kharge recast the CEC on Monday, inducting various leaders and removing senior leaders like former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, and other veterans like A K Antony, Janardan Dwivedi, and M Veerappa Moily.

Bypolls 2023 LIVE Updates: The by-elections for seven assembly constituencies in six states, namely Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Kerala, Tripura, West Bengal, and Jharkhand, are scheduled for Tuesday. This marks the inaugural showdown between the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) and the recently established Indian National Developmental Inclusive Alliance (INDIA) from the opposition camp.The by-polls hold significance as they precede the state assembly elections later this year and the Lok Sabha elections in 2024.By-elections are slated for two constituencies, Boxanagar and Dhanpur, in Tripura.

Rahul Gandhi, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on Monday in Rajasthan said that Mangalyaan, Chandrayaan & Suryayaan were successfully launched, but 'Rahul Yaan' hasn't been able to be launched for the last twenty years. Rajnath Singh made the comment in Jaisalmer, Rajasthan. Rajnath Singh said “In a country where successful launching and landing of Mangalyaan and Chandrayaan is taking place, Congress' "Rahul Yaan" has not been launched for the last twenty years." The Defence Minister also praised the Indian scientists for the recent successful launch of ‘Chandrayaan-3’.

Rajnath Singh on Monday hit out at the opposition over DMK leader Udhayanidhi Stalin's comments on Sanatan Dharma, asking why Congress leaders Sonia Gandhi, Rahul Gandhi and Ashok Gehlot are «silent» on the issue. Addressing a public meeting in Jaisalmer on the launch of the third round of the BJP's Parivartan Yatra in Rajasthan, he also took a jibe at Rahul Gandhi, saying Chandrayaan successfully landed on the south pole of the Moon but «Rahulyaan» could neither be launched nor landed. On Udhayanidhi Stalin's comments, Singh said, «I want to ask (Rajasthan Chief Minister) Ashok Gehlot why he does not speak, why Sonia Gandhi, Rahul Gandhi, (Congress president Mallikarjun) Kharge do not say what is their thinking on Sanatan Dharma.» The DMK has hurt Sanatan Dharma and Congress leaders are «silent» on the issue, the senior BJP leader said.INDIA bloc members should apologise for the insult to Sanatan Dharma or the country won't forgive them, the defence minister said. The DMK leader should be asked for an explanation over his comments, Singh said and added that «Sanatan Dharma considers the world as a family and gives the message of 'Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam' (the world is one family)». Tamil Nadu Youth Welfare Minister Udhayanidhi Stalin has alleged that Sanatan Dharma is against equality and social justice, and that it should be eradicated. Udhayanidhi Stalin, son of Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M K Stalin, also likened Sanatan Dharma to coronavirus, malaria, and dengue fever and said such things should not be opposed but destroyed. Defence Minister Singh attacked the Congress in Rajasthan, where polls are due later this year, saying the party is trying to gain support in the state by invoking the 'Hindu-Muslim' issue and the

BJP leader Sushil Kumar Modi on Sunday dubbed as «treason» the remarks on 'Sanatan Dharma' made by Tamil Nadu minister and DMK leader Udayanidhi Stalin and demanded his arrest. The Rajya Sabha MP also asked Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar and RJD supremo Lalu Prasad to clarify their stand on the issue, given their affinity with the DMK. «Udayanidhi Stalin should be arrested and sent to jail for having compared Sanatana Dharma to ailments like dengue and malaria,» the former Bihar Deputy CM told reporters here. «The statement amounts to treason ('deshdroh') since Stalin did not advocate eradication of the ills plaguing the faith, but called for rooting out the faith itself.

BJP noted on Sunday that Lok Sabha and Assembly polls were held together in the country till 1967 and the issue of simultaneous elections was debated when Indira Gandhi was the prime minister as well, as it attacked Congress leader Rahul Gandhi for his «parochial» stand in criticising the idea. «The first time serious contemplation, to go back to the arrangement (simultaneous polls) our founding fathers had envisaged, happened in 1982 when Mrs Indira Gandhi was in power.

Rahul Gandhi's YouTub channel has released a light-hearted video where the Wayanad MP is seen learning a mutton recipe from Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) party's co-founder Lalu Prasad Yadav, and his daughter Misa Bharti, Rajya Sabha MP. The father and daughter duo were teaching Rahul Gandhi how to cook mutton at their residence. In the more-than-seven-minute-long video, Gandhi is seen learning the recipe for "Champaran mutton" preparation from Prasad.

Rajya Sabha and Lok Sabha, the bulletin informed. The session will have five sittings and members will be informed about the provisional calendar separately, the secretariats said, according to a report by PTI. "Members are informed that the Thirteenth Session of the Seventeenth Lok Sabha will commence on Monday, the 18th September, 2023," the Lok Sabha Secretariat said in a bulletin on Saturday. "Members are informed that the Two Hundred and Sixty First Session of the Rajya Sabha will commence on Monday, the 18th September, 2023," the Rajya Sabha secretariat said.

Congress Party founder YS Sharmila on Saturday said her discussions with Congress party on working together or a possible «merger» have come to a final stage. Sharmila had held talks with Congress leaders Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi in the national capital, amid speculation about YSRTP's merger with the grand old party. «Prolonged discussions were held (between Sharmila and Gandhis).