BJP leaders in Mumbai stage protest against Rahul Gandhi for ‘insulting’ OBCs

BJP leaders in Mumbai stage protest against Rahul Gandhi for ‘insulting’ OBCs

Activists of the BJP take part in a protest against Congress party leader Rahul Gandhi in Mumbai on March 25, 2023. | Photo Credit: AFP The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Saturday staged protests here against Congress leader Rahul Gandhi demanding an apology from him for “insulting” the Other Backward Classes (OBC). The protests, with placards with messages […]

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Kerala CM statement supporting Gandhi ‘not genuine’, CPI(M) has ‘double agenda’: Congress

Kerala CM statement supporting Gandhi ‘not genuine’, CPI(M) has ‘double agenda’: Congress

Opposition MLAs led by the Leader of the Opposition V D Satheesan stage a protest before the Assembly after boycotting it, in Thiruvananthapuram. | Photo Credit: MAHINSHA S The Congress on March 25 accused the ruling CPI(M) in Kerala and Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan of having a “double agenda”, as they made statements supporting Rahul […]

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Nadda terms Rahul ‘casteist’, BJP to run campaign against ‘anti-OBC remarks’ of Congress leader

Nadda terms Rahul ‘casteist’, BJP to run campaign against ‘anti-OBC remarks’ of Congress leader

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi arrives at Surat District Court for hearing of a criminal defamation case filed against him over his alleged ‘Modi surname’ remark, in Surat on March 23. | Photo Credit: PTI Hours before the Lok Sabha secretariat notified the disqualification of Wayanad MP Rahul Gandhi as member, following his conviction by a […]

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Nadda terms Rahul ‘casteist’, BJP to run campaign against ‘anti-OBC remarks’ of Congress leader

Disclosing minor rape victim’s identity: HC asks NCPCR to respond to plea against Rahul Gandhi

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi. | Photo Credit: PTI The Delhi High Court on March 24 sought the national child rights panel’s response to a plea seeking the registration of an FIR against Congress leader Rahul Gandhi for allegedly revealing a Dalit girl’s identity, who was raped and killed in 2021, by posting on Twitter a […]

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‘Aware of reports on Rahul Gandhi’s jail sentence’: Spokesperson for U.N. chief

‘Aware of reports on Rahul Gandhi’s jail sentence’: Spokesperson for U.N. chief

United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres. | Photo Credit: AP The United Nations is aware of the reports about Congress leader Rahul Gandhi’s two-year jail sentence and that his party plans to appeal the verdict, a spokesperson for the U.N. chief Antonio Guterres has said. Farhan Haq, the Deputy Spokesman for the U.N. Secretary-General, was responding […]

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Legal processes are used far too often for political ends: Sibal on Rahul’s conviction

Legal processes are used far too often for political ends: Sibal on Rahul’s conviction

Rajya Sabha MP Kapil Sibal. | Photo Credit: ANI A day after Rahul Gandhi was sentenced in a 2019 criminal defamation case, Rajya Sabha MP Kapil Sibal on March 24 said legal processes are used far too often for political ends and both the process and the outcome are “bizarre”. A court in Surat on […]

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Modi surname remark | Rahul Gandhi has ‘pathetic and casteist mindset’,  says BJP chief J.P. Nadda

Modi surname remark | Rahul Gandhi has ‘pathetic and casteist mindset’, says BJP chief J.P. Nadda

BJP president JP Nadda in New Delhi. File photo | Photo Credit: ANI A day after a court in Surat convicted Congress leader Rahul Gandhi in a case of criminal defamation, BJP president J.P. Nadda on Friday, March 24, 2023, launched a strong attack on him, stating that Mr. Gandhi, by his remarks had shown […]

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Stalin speaks to Rahul Gandhi, conveys his solidarity

Stalin speaks to Rahul Gandhi, conveys his solidarity

Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M.K. Stalin on Thursday termed as “deplorable” the conviction of Congress leader Rahul Gandhi by a local court in Gujarat in a criminal defamation case. The DMK president said that the BJP’s alleged targetting of opposition parties and such atrocities would soon come to an end. “It’s highly deplorable & unprecedented […]

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Kharge, other Congress leaders meet to discuss fallout of court verdict against Rahul Gandhi

Kharge, other Congress leaders meet to discuss fallout of court verdict against Rahul Gandhi

Congress MP Mallikarjun Kharge. File | Photo Credit: PTI Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge on Thursday convened a meeting of top party leaders at his residence to discuss the situation arising out of the conviction and two-year sentence of Rahul Gandhi by a Surat court in a defamation case. Senior Congress leaders, including party MPs, gathered […]

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Ruckus in Jharkhand Assembly over Rahul Gandhi’s sentencing

Ruckus in Jharkhand Assembly over Rahul Gandhi’s sentencing

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi arrives at Surat District Court for hearing of a criminal defamation case filed against him over his alleged ‘Modi surname’ remark, in Surat on March 23, 2023. | Photo Credit: PTI Congress MLAs created noisy scenes in Jharkhand Assembly on Thursday over the sentencing of Rahul Gandhi by a Gujarat court […]

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