Articles tagged under: Sonia Gandhi

How valid is Congress’s protest against the inauguration of new parliament by PM Modi?

May 26, 2023
How valid is Congress’s protest against the inauguration of new parliament by PM Modi?

New Delhi: The inauguration of India's new parliament building has sparked a heated exchange of words between the government and the opposition. Prime Minister Narendra Modi is scheduled to inaugurate the building on May 28. In the latest development today, 19 political parties across the country have announced their decision to boycott the inauguration programme. They perceive it as a breach of constitutional norms and have criticised the government for not involving the president in the openi...Read More

Congress announces names of star campaigners for Gujarat Elections 2022

November 15, 2022
Congress announces names of star campaigners for Gujarat Elections 2022

New Delhi: Main opposition party Indian National Congress (INC) announced the names of the star campaigners of the party for the upcoming Gujarat elections today. Party chief Malliakrjun Kharge, UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi, party MP Rahul Gandhi, general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, CM of Rajasthan and Chhattisgarh  Ashok Gehlot and Bhupesh Baghel, Sachin Pilot, Jignesh Mevani, Kanhaiya Kumar are going to campaign for the congress party. Gujarat is going for the general assembly ...Read More

National Herald Case: Gujarat Congress holds dharna against questioning of Sonia Gandhi

July 21, 2022
National Herald Case: Gujarat Congress holds dharna against questioning of Sonia Gandhi

Ahmedabad: Congress party chief Sonia Gandhi, 75, was questioned by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) for about three hours today, which was the first day of her appearance before the probe agency in an alleged money laundering case linked to the National Herald newspaper. Calling the actions of the probe agency political vendetta, the party held a nationwide protest in support of Sonia Gandhi. Gujarat Congress also held a dharna at Lal Darwaja area in Ahmedabad alleging "wrong harassments to ...Read More

નેશનલ હેરલ્ડ હવાલા કેસમાં સોનિયા ગાંધી, રાહુલ ગાંધીને ઈડીનું સમન્સ

June 01, 2022

નવી દિલ્હીઃ નેશનલ હેરલ્ડ અખબારને સંડોવતા એક હવાલા કેસમાં એન્ફોર્સમેન્ટ ડિરેક્ટોરેટ (ઈડી)એ કોંગ્રેસના કાર્યકારી પ્રમુખ સોનિયા ગાંધી તથા રાહુલ ગાંધીને સમન્સ પાઠવ્યા છે. નેશનલ હેરલ્ડ અખબાર�...Read More

Rent for Sonia Gandhi’s residence 10 Janpath was lastly paid to govt in 2020: RTI reply to Gujarat based applicant

February 10, 2022
Rent for Sonia Gandhi’s residence 10 Janpath was lastly paid to govt in 2020: RTI reply to Gujarat based applicant

Gandhinagar: The last month for which the monthly rental for bungalow number 26, Akbar Road which is the national headquarters of the Congress party's Seva Dal organization was paid in December 2012. The last month for which the monthly rental for bungalow number 10, Janpath, the resident of Congress party's national president Sonia Gandhi was paid in September 2020, while the last monthly rental for another bungalow C-11/109 Chanakyapuri was paid in August 2013. This has been revealed in RTI...Read More

Sonia and Rahul fly abroad; to give a miss to monsoon session of parliament

September 13, 2020
Sonia and Rahul fly abroad; to give a miss to monsoon session of parliament

New Delhi: Congress president Sonia Gandhi accompanied by son Rahul Gandhi will be traveling outside the country. Both Opposition leaders will give the upcoming monsoon session in Parliament a miss which starts on Monday next week. Congress President, Smt. Sonia Gandhi is travelling today onwards for a routine follow up & medical check up, which was deferred due to the pandemic.She is accompanied by Sh. Rahul Gandhi.We take this opportunity to thank everyone for their concern & good w...Read More

SPG cover to Sonia, Rahul, Priyanka withdrawn, it will be replaced with Z+ security

November 08, 2019
SPG cover to Sonia, Rahul, Priyanka withdrawn, it will be replaced with Z+ security

New Delhi: The Government of India has decided to withdraw SPG (Special Protection Group) security cover of Congress president Sonia Gandhi, her daughter Priyanka Gandhi and son Rahul Gandhi. All three will now get Z+ CRPF(Central Reserve Police Force) cover all over India. Govt sources said, this decision has been taken after highest level security review and feedback from all relevant agencies. Between 2005 and 2014, Rahul Gandhi travelled in non-BR (bullet resistant) vehicles on 18 visits ...Read More

Mother Sonia defends him, son Rahul back to the job with same old temper after a week-long confusion

June 01, 2019
Mother Sonia defends him, son Rahul back to the job with same old temper after a week-long confusion

New Delhi: After around a week-long insistence to step down from the post of party's national president, Rahul Gandhi agreed to meet party's newly elected MPs today. Rahul Gandhi, his mother Sonia Gandhi (Parliamentary Party chief of Congress) and his sister Priyanka Gandhi(General Secretary of Congress) Rahul also attended a meeting of Congress Parliamentary Party (CPP). In this meeting, Rahul's mother and UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi was elected leader of Congress Parliamentary Party (CP...Read More

Sonia, Rahul, Priyanka in Gujarat to participate in CWC meeting

March 12, 2019

Ahmedabad: Congress President Rahul Gandhi, his mother and former president of the main opposition party Sonia Gandhi, sister and party general secretary Priyanka Gandhi along with former PM Manmohan Singh today arrived here to participate in the party's working committee (CWC) meeting to be held at Sardar Smarak in Shahibaug area of the city. All the four leaders and other senior leaders of the party reached SVP International Airport and then went to Sabarmati Ashram of Mahatma Gandhi to...Read More

Sonia, Rahul, Priyanka, Manmohan Singh to address Jan Sankalp rally, attend CWC meeting in Gujarat on February 28, State Congress chief shares details

February 25, 2019

Gandhinagar: After a gap of 58 years, the meeting of Congress party's supreme body - Congress Working Committee(CWC) will be held in Gujarat - the land of Mahatma Gandhi and Sardar Patel. The meeting has been organized in Gujarat in response to GPCC(Gujarat Congress)'s request to mark 150 anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi. State Congress president Amit Chavda today shared the details of upcoming CWC meeting, scheduled to take place on February 28. He said, 'at 9 am the leaders will arriv...Read More