Amethi

In the Lok Sabha, Union Minister Smriti Irani who had defeated Gandhi in his pocket borough Amethi in this year’s national elections, led the charge. She demanded Rahul Gandhi’s apology for his comment and was joined by other lawmakers. read more

Union minister and Amethi MP Smriti Irani tweeted about the incident and tagged Sharma asking him to be to be courteous and sensitive. “We all are servants of the public and not rulers,” she tweeted. read more

BJP spokesperson GVL Narsimha Rao said Rahul had been abroad on 16 occasions in the last 5 years, which was more than the number of trips he made to Amethi--his former Lok Sabha constituency-- in the same period. read more

Army chief’s statement comes less than a month after the defence minister Rajnath Singh stated that any future dialogue with Pakistan would not be on Jammu and Kashmir but on Pakistan Occupied Kashmir, the area of Kashmir under Pakistani control since... read more

Smriti Irani will inspect the beautification work being done on the Sagra lake and will also hold a review meeting with the railway department on the progress of the Salon-Unchahar rail line. read more

This is the second time in last three months that her schedule includes a visit to Rae Bareli, indicating a possible Bharatiya Janata Party plan to engage with the lone Congress bastion in UP that the BJP has failed to breach, party leaders admit. read more

Irani is a first-time Lok Sabha MP who defeated Rahul Gandhi from his family bastion of Amethi. She was also a minister since 2014 in the first Modi government. read more

Amanullah’s son, Ibrahim, has lodged a case under the Indian Penal Code (IPC) Section 302 (murder) against the unidentified assailants. read more

Rahul Gandhi had changed his Twitter bio or the 160-word introduction of the account holder from ‘President Indian National Congress’ to ‘Member of the Indian National Congress’ on July 3 soon after his ‘farewell note’ to party workers indicating the... read more

A detailed programme of Rahul Gandhi’s visit though is still awaited, this will be the first visit of the now Wayanad MP to his former Lok Sabha seat that he lost to Union minister Smriti Irani by a margin of about 55,000 votes. read more

According to Congress sources, Rahul Gandhi will not be addressing any public meetings. He will be holding meetings with party workers during his visit. His sister and Congress General Secretary Priyanka Gandhi was likely to accompany him. read more

She also declared that each development block of Amethi would now have a fire station. read more

Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, the AICC general secretary for east UP, has been holding meetings with the party men and taking feedback from them for the past one month. She has appointed Ajay Kumar Lallu as the party’s in-charge for revamping the party organisation... read more

Gandhi, however, remained firm on his decision to step down from the helm of the 134-year-old party, saying he had decided even before the April-May general election that he would take responsibility and step down if the Congress fared badly in the polls,... read more

According to sources, Congress leaders Shashi Tharoor and Manish Tewari told the Amethi MP that the party takes collective responsibility of the Congress’ drubbing in the recently held general elections adding that the party chief is not the one to be... read more