Bihar assembly elections: 56 days and counting – where is Rahul Gandhi? | India News

NEW DELHI: When Rahul Gandhi set out under Bihar‘s unforgiving August sun for his ‘Voter Adhikar Yatra’, it was a test of whether he could still find takers in a land where the Congress survives mostly as a fading afterimage. For 16 days, his campaign carved a noisy trail through dusty highways and crowded colonies.Today, […]

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‘Joint PC? But only one picture’: BJP mocks ‘Mahagathbandhan’ presser; poster shows only Tejashwi Yadav | India News

NEW DELHI: The Bharatiya Janata Party on Thursday mocked the Mahagathbandhan, claiming Rahul Gandhi and Congress were robbed of credit after a press conference poster featured only RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav. BJP spokesperson Shehzaad Poonawala posted on X said, “Joint PC? But only one picture…. Rahul Gandhi & Congress ka ‘samman chori’ ….. Showed Congress […]

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UP lynching case: Rahul Gandhi meets Dalit victim’s family; claims govt ‘threatening’ them | India News

Rahul Gandhi met the family of Hariom Valmiki NEW DELHI: Lok Sabha leader of opposition Rahul Gandhi on Friday met the family of Hariom Valmiki, the Dalit man who was lynched in his constituency, Raebareli. After meeting the family, the Congress leader made a big claim, saying the government threatened the victim’s family against meeting […]

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Supreme Court junks plea for probe into ‘vote chori’ charge, says approach EC | India News

NEW DELHI: Supreme Court on Monday refused to entertain a PIL seeking a court-monitored probe by a special investigation team (SIT) into allegations of irregularities and manipulations in electoral rolls levelled by Congress MP Rahul Gandhi and asked the petitioner to approach EC for redressal of grievance.The petitioner’s counsel, senior advocate Shashi Kiran, told a […]

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‘Confiscate diplomatic passport’: Nishikant Dubey hits out at Rahul Gandhi over Colombia speech; calls remarks ‘baseless’ | India News

Rahul Gandhi and Nishikant Dubey (ANI images) NEW DELHI: BJP MP Nishikant Dubey on Friday demanded that Congress leader Rahul Gandhi’s diplomatic passport should be confiscated and legal action initiated.This comes after Gandhi’s visit to Colombia, where he accused the BJP-led central government of mounting a “wholesale attack on Indian democracy” during an interaction at […]

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The time to decriminalise defamation has come: SC | India News

NEW DELHI: Agreeing to hear a plea filed by the organisation ‘Foundation for Independent Journalism’ seeking to quash the summons issued to it in a criminal defamation case, Supreme Court on Monday said time has come to decriminalise the defamation law.A bench of Justices M M Sundresh and Satish Chandra Sharma passed the remark while […]

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‘Online voter deletion not possible’: EC refutes Rahul Gandhi’s claim; cites law and due process | India News

NEW DELHI: The Election Commission on Friday refuted Congress leader Rahul Gandhi‘s charges, claiming that “no deletion of votes can be done online by any member of the public.”The poll body, in a point-wise statement, said that the no name is deleted from the roll without issuing a notice to the affected person.“No Deletion of […]

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‘Rahul go back’: UP minister sits on dharna on highway; demands apology over insult to PM’s mother | Lucknow News

NEW DELHI: Uttar Pradesh minister Dinesh Pratap Singh staged a protest on Wednesday at a highway in Raebareli to block Congress MP Rahul Gandhi‘s convoy, demanding an apology for alleged abusive remarks made against Prime Minister Narendra Modi‘s mother during Congress’ Vote Adhikar Yatra in Bihar.Singh and his supporters sat on dharna at the Kathwara […]

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‘After Awadh, now Magadh’: Akhilesh Yadav jabs BJP at Rahul Gandhi’s Bihar rally; slams RSS | India News

Mohan Bhagwat and Akhilesh Yadav (R) NEW DELHI: Taking on RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat’s claim that Indians have shared “the same DNA for 40,000 years,” Samajwadi Party supremo Akhilesh Yadav on Saturday turned the remark into a political weapon. Speaking at a rally in Bihar alongside Rahul Gandhi‘s Voter Adhikar Yatra, Akhilesh mocked the statement […]

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Electoral rolls | Rahul Gandhi ups the ante

On August 7, at the Congress headquarters in new Delhi, party leader Rahul Gandhi stood in a room filled with cameras and anticipation, holding what he described as proof of India’s gravest democratic crisis. The Leader of the Opposition in the Lok Sabha raised a spiral-bound stack of papers, culled from a seven-foot pile of […]

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