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.

November 24, 2017
November 24, 2017

Challenge before Rahul Gandhi

Political parties all over the world have come to be closed shops. What is known as the “High Command” usually dictates on who will be installed as the president. Rahul Gandhi has been “elected” as the Congress president.

November 20, 2017
November 20, 2017

Rahul Gandhi to be made ‘Congress president’

The highest decision-making body of India’s main opposition party Congress decides to make Rahul Gandhi its president replacing his mother Sonia Gandhi.

August 4, 2017
August 4, 2017

Rahul Gandhi's car attacked, shown black flags in Gujarat

Congress vice president of India, Rahul Gandhi's car is pelted with stones during his visit to the flood-affected town but he escapes unhurt.

May 6, 2016
May 6, 2016

Manmohan, Sonia, Rahul briefly detained during protest

Members of the Congress party, including Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi, party President Sonia Gandhi and former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, were briefly detained at a police station in Delhi for defying orders as they tried to march towards Parliament.

January 18, 2016
January 18, 2016

The new Rahul Gandhi troll stirs online storm

Indian National Congress Vice-President Rahul Gandhi's recent interaction with the students at Narsee Monjee Institute of Management Studies in Mumbai has Twitter buzzing again.

December 19, 2015
December 19, 2015

Sonia, Rahul Gandhi given bail in graft case

A court grants bail to opposition leaders Sonia Gandhi and her son Rahul in a case involving the alleged misappropriation of party funds that has become a political flashpoint with the ruling party.

June 19, 2015
June 19, 2015

Modi greets Rahul on his birthday

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi extends birthday greetings to Rahul, the scion of the Nehru-Gandhi family who turned 45 today.

April 16, 2015
April 16, 2015

Rahul returns to India after mysterious sabbatical

Rahul Gandhi returns to India after 56-day sabbatical which raised questions on his leadership of the party struggling to find its feet after a string of major electoral setbacks.

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