In this file photo, Congress leaders Rahul Gandhi and Anand Sharma in New Delhi. Both Gandhi and Sharma tested positive for the coronavirus on Tuesday, April 20, 2021.
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Congress leader Rahul Gandhi addresses a public meeting for Assembly polls, at Goalpokhar in Uttar Dinajpur district.
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Congress leader Rahul Gandhi at a public meeting for Assembly polls, in Darjeeling.
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Congress leader Rahul Gandhi with party MP Shashi Tharoor during an election campaign meeting, ahead of Kerala assembly polls, in Thiruvananthapuram.
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Congress leader Rahul Gandhi rides an auto-rickshaw at Kalpetta, Wayanad.
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Congress leader Rahul Gandhi during an election campaign meeting, ahead of Kerala assembly polls, in Thiruvananthapuram.
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Congress leader Rahul Gandhi during the corner meeting, at Vellamunda in Mananthavady.
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Congress leader Rahul Gandhi during his visit to Thirunelli Temple, in Wayanad.
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Congress leader Rahul Gandhi offers prayers during his visit to Thirunelli Temple, in Wayanad.
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi visits Thirunelly Temple ahead of Kerala Assembly polls, in Wayanad, Kerala.
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi offers prayers during his visit to Thirunelly Temple ahead of Kerala Assembly polls, in Wayanad, Kerala
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi meets public after a rally ahead of Assembly polls, at Purameri, Kerala.
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Congress leader Rahul Gandhi with supporters at a rally ahead of Assembly polls, at Purameri, Kerala
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Congress leader Rahul Gandhi addresses meeting ahead of Assembly polls, at Purameri, Kerala
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Congress leader Rahul Gandhi addresses a corner meeting, in Quilandy.
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Congress leader Rahul Gandhi during an election campaign for Kerala assembly polls, in Mananthavady.
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Congress leader Rahul Gandhi waves at the crowd during a public meeting for Assam Assembly polls, in Nalbari district.
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Congress leader Rahul Gandhi offers prayers during his visit to Kamakhya Temple ahead of Assam Assembly polls, in Guwahati.
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Congress leader Rahul Gandhi offers prayers during his visit to Kamakhya Temple ahead of Assam Assembly polls, in Guwahati.
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Congress leader Rahul Gandhi offers prayers during his visit to Kamakhya Temple ahead of Assam Assembly polls, in Guwahati.
Questioning the pricing modalities under the Centre’s new Covid-19 vaccine policy, the Congress said the policy was ‘regressive, inequitable and anti-competitive’
Shah also ridiculed the Left and Congress for their alliance in West Bengal and said they need to merge and form a new party which can be called 'Comrade Congress Party'
Congress dissenters convene a show of defiance in Jammu; decrying them, first family loyalists highlight the exertions of Rahul-Priyanka for the upcoming elections.
You’ve heard of leaderless movements. The Congress has invented a variation: the leaderless party. A new prez will come by June, after a string of polls. New, did we hear?
A new proverb for the GOP: the more things remain the same, the more they remain the same. The ‘reformers’—Ghulam Nabi, Sibal, Manish Tewari, Tharoor, Anand Sharma—take a backseat.
The Congress party’s silence on the Ram Mandir’s bhoomi pujan or its pusillanimous response to the verdict that enabled the temple’s construction is driven by purely political motives
It is true that Nirmala Sitharaman and Mayawati’s attack against Rahul Gandhi is misdirected and neither of them or any other frontline political leader has made the effort to personally reach out to the lakhs of migrants who have hit India’s national and state highways in their long.
What Sonia Gandhi needs to do is promote the leaders actually working on the ground and prevent them from quitting the party for lack of redressal of their genuine problems.
Reports quoting party sources say that senior party figures and Congress CMs have asked colleagues to give the names they propose for the post of Congress president in closed envelopes.
The Congress is also a schizoid being (like the Left) in many ways. If it’s displaying courage on AFSPA/sedition et al, it’s also reacting with intellectual panic on another front.
Rahul Gandhi has acquiesced to a demand that emanated out of petty infighting in the Kerala unit of the Congress -- Wayanad is not a constituency chosen out of some coherent strategy. And the deeper problem: it also pits the Congress against the Left. That's confused signalling.
Stalin’s invite to Rahul to lead the next government is almost an echo of his father M Karunanidhi’s similar bidding to Rahul’s mother Sonia Gandhi and before that to his grandmother Indira Gandhi.
The way the Congress party handled the selection of new Chief Ministers for the Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan, it suggests that the 'high command' culture in the party may have given way to more inner-party democracy. The same cannot be said for the BJP.
We must accept that the Gandhi family has sacrificed more for this nation than the leadership of any political party. Would their prestige be restored by another act of sacrifice and renunciation?