Rahul Gandhi

Bangladeshi journalist booked in India for ‘spreading fake news about Sonia, Rahul’

Police in the southern Indian city of Bangalore has booked a case against a Bangladeshi journalist and a woman staffer of an Indian news portal for allegedly spreading fake news about the Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi and his mother Sonia Gandhi

India’s election opens the door to the past

India witnessed a tumultuous time between May 1996 and October 1999 when coalition governments came and left in quick succession.

India’s democracy in detention

What happens to Gandhi has important implications for India’s future.

Rahul Gandhi’s conviction: Another dent in India’s declining democracy

The same system that drags criminal cases for years starts to work on speed when power wants it to.

Rahul Gandhi disqualified from India parliament

The Congress leader was disqualified as a member of India’s Lok Sabha a day after being convicted and sentenced to two years in prison in a defamation case filed over his remarks about Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

Rahul Gandhi sentenced to 2 years in prison over 2019 Modi remark

The Surat district court granted bail to Rahul and suspended his sentence for 30 days

Hypocrisy on Stilts in India

The BJP’s charge against Gandhi is a serious one.

Kharge becomes first non-Gandhi Congress President in 24 years

India’s veteran politician Mallikarjun Kharge has won the Congress president election and is set to become the party's first non-Gandhi leader in 24 years, NDTV reports.

Can India’s Oldest Party Reinvent Itself?

For the first time in nearly 25 years, Congress will elect a president who is not a member of the Nehru-Gandhi dynasty.

August 15, 2022
August 15, 2022

Modi sets goal of turning India into a developed nation in next 25 years

As India marks 75 years of its independence from more than two centuries of British rule, the country’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi today (August 15, 2022) flagged corruption and nepotism among the biggest two challenges saying graft is eating into the country like termites.

July 26, 2022
July 26, 2022

Rahul Gandhi detained during protest in Delhi

Rahul Gandhi, leader of India’s opposition party Congress, was detained today after he led a protest and sat on a road in the heart of India’s capital New Delhi while his mother Sonia Gandhi was being questioned by the Enforcement Directorate, reports NDTV.

June 1, 2022
June 1, 2022

Sonia, Rahul Gandhi summoned for questioning in money laundering case

India’s Enforcement Directorate (ED) today summoned opposition Congress party president Sonia Gandhi and her son, lawmaker Rahul Gandhi, for questioning in a money laundering case linked to the National Herald newspaper, officials said.

August 24, 2019
August 24, 2019

Opposition delegation led by Rahul Gandhi sent back to Delhi on arrival at Srinagar airport

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi along with other opposition leaders, who had flown to Jammu and Kashmir, are sent back to Delhi from the Srinagar airport.

May 25, 2019
May 25, 2019

I should take responsibility and resign: Rahul

Congress President Rahul Gandhi offers to resign from the party post taking responsibility for its abject defeat in the just ended parliamentary elections while the party's top decision-making forum unanimously rejected it.

May 24, 2019
May 24, 2019

Lok Sabha Election 2019: Gloomiest phase for Gandhis

The Congress helmed by its President Rahul Gandhi, his sister and General Secretary Priyanka Vadra and their mother Sonia Gandhi today stared at one of the gloomiest phases for the party after the Bharatiya Janata Party won a historic mandate in parliamentary elections. The Gandhis

April 8, 2019
April 8, 2019

A Battle for India's Soul

As India gears up for its general election, one must not lose sight of the sheer size of the exercise, which has been described as the “biggest humanly managed event in the world.”

March 14, 2019
March 14, 2019

Rahul woos women with jobs promises

India's main opposition Congress party will reserve a third of federal government jobs for women if it comes into power, its chief Rahul Gandhi said yesterday, in a sign women's rights are rising up the political agenda for next month's election.

December 11, 2017
December 11, 2017

Rahul Gandhi officially named Congress chief

Rahul Gandhi is set to take over as the chief of Congress, with the party today formally announcing his election as the party president.

December 4, 2017
December 4, 2017

Rahul Gandhi likely to head Congress party

Rahul Gandhi, the scion of Nehru-Gandhi dynasty, is expected to be elected unopposed as the President of India’s main opposition Congress party marking a generational change of the grand old party with a contest appearing extremely unlikely.