NEW DELHI, FEB 15 : Former Congress president Sonia Gandhi on Thursday informed voters of her Rae Bareli constituency in Uttar Pradesh that she will not contest the upcoming Lok Sabha polls due to health and age issues.Hope you will be with my family: Sonia Gandhi’s emotional message to Rae Bareli voters Sonia files for […]Continue Reading
NEW DELHI,SEPT 20 : BJP MP Nishikant Dubey on Wednesday cited a clash between the Congress and the Samajwadi Party in the Lok Sabha in 2012 over a bill for reservation for Scheduled Castes (SCs) and Scheduled Tribes to counter Sonia Gandhi who pushed for the quota for Other Backward Classes (OBCs) in the women’s […]Continue Reading
NEW DELHI, OCT. 6: Congress president Sonia Gandhi on Thursday joined the Bharat Jodo Yatra here, participating in a public event of the party after a long gap. Amid cheers and slogan-shouting by party workers, Sonia Gandhi walked besides her son Rahul Gandhi and other leaders for a few kilometres in Mandya district of Karnataka. […]Continue Reading
NEW DELHI,SEPT 25: With an aim to unite the entire Opposition to counter the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in the 2024 Lok Sabha polls, Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar and Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) chief Lalu Prasad will meet Congress President Sonia Gandhi in the national capital on Sunday. It is pertinent to mention that […]Continue Reading
NEW DELHI,SEPT. 14: In a scathing attack on the Modi government, Congress president Sonia Gandhi on Wednesday alleged that power has become intensely concentrated over the past eight years in a handful of politicians and business persons, which is undermining India’s democracy and institutions. She also alleged that constitutional values and principles are under Continue Reading
NEW DELHI,JUNE 19: Congress president Sonia Gandhi Saturday termed “directionless” the Centre’s ‘Agnipath’ scheme for recruitment in the armed forces, and said her party will work for its withdrawal. She also appealed to the youths protesting against the scheme to adopt peaceful and non-violent means to fight for their demands. “It is Continue Reading
NEW DELHI,MAY 18: A five-year term for all office-bearers was among the biggest takeaways — besides ‘one family one ticket’ and ‘50 below 50’ — of the Congress ‘chintan’ at its Udaipur shivir. However, brainstorming after the session, the Congress has decided that party president will be exempted from the fixed five-term rule. Meanwhile, the […]Continue Reading
NEW DELHI, APRIL 6: Congress President Sonia Gandhi on Tuesday called for unity at all levels of the organisation, while noting that the road ahead for the party is more challenging than ever before and the spirit of resilience of party workers is under severe test. Addressing a meeting of the Congress Parliamentary Party (CPP), […]Continue Reading
NEW DELHI,APRIL 5: Congress President Sonia Gandhi on Tuesday chaired a meeting of the parliamentary party and discussed the current political situation and the party’s strategy in both houses of Parliament. Congress Parliamentarians in both the Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha including former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Rahul Gandhi attended the meeting in the […]Continue Reading