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  Rahul Gandhi to ensure 50 pc representation to women in AICC

  Politics | June 29, 2013 20:20 IST

  New Delhi, Jun 29: Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi on Saturday vowed to ensure 50 per cent representation to women in AICC and other party wings as he held his first formal interaction with newly-appointed

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  7 kg free rice to 'very poor' families: Cong manifesto

  Politics | January 28, 2013 10:06 IST

  Agartala, Jan 28: Opposition Congress yesterday released its election manifesto promising to provide seven kg rice per family every month free of cost to people of very poor category.Those belonging to BPL category would get

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  Modi describes AICC as All India Coal Congress

  Politics | September 13, 2012 13:16 IST

  Valsad, Gujarat, Sep 13: Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi, in course of his Vivekananda Yatra, attacked the Congress for the recent scams, and went to the extent of describing the AICC as All India Coal

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  JMM response to Mukherjee's candidature positive, says Congress

  Politics | July 12, 2012 11:39 IST

  Ranchi, Jul 11:A day before UPA Presidential candidate Pranab Mukherjee's Jharkhand visit, Congress on Tuesday said chances of JMM President Shibu Soren supporting him are positive, though he has chosen to defer the date of

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  Virbhadra Singh resigns

  Politics | June 26, 2012 13:56 IST

  New Delhi, Jun 26: Union Minister Virbhadra Singh today resigned in the wake of a Himachal Pradesh court framing corruption charges against him.Singh, a former H P Chief Minister, quit on moral grounds after being

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  AICC Decides Manoj May Quit As Minister, Says Pranab

  India | January 21, 2012 12:39 IST

  Kolkata, Jan 21: Union Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee on Friday night said the AICC has taken a decision on the willingness of West Bengal minister Manoj Chakraborty to resign from the Mamata Banerjee ministry.  “Manoj

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  Kushwaha Approached Congress, But We Rejected, Says Rahul Gandhi

  India | January 07, 2012 22:00 IST

  Gorakhpur Jan 7: Taking on BJP over the induction of tainted former BSP minister Babu Singh Kushwaha, AICC general secretary Rahul Gandhi on Saturday claimed he wanted to join Congress after being sacked by Chief

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  Salman Khurshid Says, Govt, Civil Society Discord Should Not Be Encouraged

  India | October 25, 2011 16:37 IST

  New Delhi, Oct 25: Amid sparring between Team Anna and Congress on the Lokpal issue, Law Minister Salman Khurshid today said there should be no encouragement for discord between civil society and government.“Things will be

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  Congress Rules Out Immediate Change In Goa Leadership

  India | September 29, 2011 15:30 IST

  Panaji, Sep 29: A senior Congress functionary, who is in Goa on instructions of the party president in the backdrop of allegations of illegal mining, today ruled out the possibility of any change in leadership

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  No Gag Order On Congress Leaders, Says Digvijay

  India | June 25, 2011 22:39 IST

  New Delhi, June25: Amid reports that Sonia Gandhi has asked only spokespersons to air Congress' views, party General Secretary Digvijay Singh today dismissed suggestions that the AICC has issued any gag order in this regard. “You

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  Digvijay Singh Is Rahul Gandhi's Stepney, Says Uma Bharti

  India | June 22, 2011 13:39 IST

  Lucknow, Jun 22 : Digvijay Singh Is Rahul Gandhi's Stepney, Says Uma Bharti Terming AICC general secretary and UP incharge Digvijay Singh as a "stepney" of Rahul Gandhi, BJP leader Uma Bharti today claimed that

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  Stalemate In Puducherry In Cong-DMK Seat Sharing Talks

  Politics | March 20, 2011 19:48 IST

  Puducherry, Mar 20: Stalemate continues between the ruling Congress and its ally DMK in Puducherry in seat sharing talks over the 30-member territorial assembly after two rounds of discussions here.While Congress maintains that it should

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  Rahul Likely To Open 5-Day Mega Training Camp In Bihar

  Politics | March 11, 2011 13:35 IST

  Patna, Mar 10: AICC General Secretary Rahul Gandhi is likely to open the five-day mega training camp organised by Bihar Pradesh Youth Congress Committee (BPYCC) here on March 14, for the first time after the

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  Give Peace A Chance, Says Sonia Gandhi To Kashmiris

  Politics | November 02, 2010 12:47 IST

  New Delhi, Nov 2 (PTI) Observing that a "new situation" has emerged in Jammu and Kashmir, Congress President Sonia Gandhi today described the recent unrest in the state as "painful" and appealed to all "disatisfied"

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  One-Third Of AICC, PCC Members Should Be Women: Sonia

  Politics | October 26, 2010 21:34 IST

  New Delhi, Oct 26: Congress President Sonia Gandhi has directed state units to ensure that one-third members of the AICC and Pradesh Congress Committees are women. Continuing to be proactive on the issue of women

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  Congress Says Rahul Is Like JP

  Politics | October 22, 2010 8:31 IST

  New Delhi, Oct 21: Nearly four decades after Jayaprakash Narayan led a movement against former premier Indira Gandhi, a Congress leader on Thursday compared her grand-son Rahul Gandhi to the anti-Emergency hero.Banking on the AICC

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  Rahul Ducks Query On Becoming PM, Says, There Are Other Jobs Too

  India | September 14, 2010 16:30 IST

  Santiniketan (WB) :  Rahul Gandhi, who many believe is being groomed for the country's top political job, said on Tuesday becoming prime minister is not the only 'job' in the world. The 40-year-old scion of