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Rahul Gandhi plans nationwide 'yatra' for reaching out to workers

Party general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra will continue to focus on Uttar Pradesh

Letter to BS: Delayed arrival of Rahul at a meeting sets bad precedents

It's a different matter that he later made amends by giving a spirited speech and also tried to paint a united picture

Kerala rains claim 60 lives; Rahul arrives to review Wayanad's situation

About 2.27 lakh people have been shifted to 1,551 relief camps, Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan said

Rahul as party Prez was bulwark against forces of hate, bigotry: Congress

Rahul Gandhi was appointed as Congress president on December 16, 2017 and his tenure ended on Saturday after his resignation on May 25

Congress names Sonia Gandhi as interim president after marathon meet

Sources said a number of leaders, including state chiefs and MPs, backed Rahul Gandhi to continue on the post despite his refusal to reconsider his resignation

Sonia Gandhi named interim Congress president; Rahul Gandhi declines again

The announcement was made after Congress Working Committee met on Saturday

Rahul urged to continue as chief, final decision today, says Surjewala

The CWC unanimously appealed to Gandhi to lead the party, saying he was the best person for the top post at the time when the government was "assaulting democracy and undermining people's rights"

CWC meet: Sonia, Rahul pull out of discussions to pick new party chief

'We cannot be part of this process,' Sonia Gandhi said

Cong top brass meets today to find new chief after Rahul step-down

Senior party leader K.C. Venugopal on Friday said that the party will certainly get a new president on Saturday

CWC meet on August 10; hunt for Rahul Gandhi's successor tops agenda

The party had said last week that the Congress Working Committee will meet after the current session of Parliament that ends next Wednesday

With no one at helm, Congress is fast losing its political capital

According to party insiders, Rahul is of the view, which a close aide has espoused, that the party needs to "burn down to ashes" before it can rise again to reclaim its lost glory

Lack of clarity at top hurting Cong, hope Priyanka takes the reins: Tharoor

He also backed Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh's assessment that a young leader would be more suitable to lead the Congress at this juncture

Democracy, honesty lost: Rahul on Congress-JD(S) govt fall in Karnataka

Hours after the fall of the Congress-JD(S) government in Karnataka, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday said the greed of those who saw the alliance as an obstacle in their path to power won, while democracy and the state's people lost. The Congress-JD(S) government in Karnataka collapsed after the confidence motion moved by Chief Minister H D Kumaraswamy was defeated in the assembly, ending his 14-month long turbulent tenure. "From its first day, the Cong-JDS alliance in Karnataka was a target for vested interests, both within & outside, who saw the alliance as a threat & an obstacle in their path to power. Their greed won today," Gandhi tweeted. "Democracy, honesty and the people of Karnataka lost," he said. Reacting to the development, Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra said one day the BJP will discover that everything cannot be bought, everyone cannot be bullied and every lie is eventually exposed. "Until then I suppose, the citizens of our country will

Rahul exempted from personal appearance in 'Modi surname' defamation case

The court of Chief Judicial Magistrate B H Kapadia last week had issued summons to Gandhi after finding that there was prima facie a case of criminal defamation against him

Congress needs a president and drastic spring cleaning of party structure

Forget finding a president with pan-India appeal, soon the party may not even have state level leaders of any consequence

Rahul Gandhi pleads not guilty in Ahmedabad bank defamation case, gets bail

The defamation suit was filed by the bank against Gandhi after he alleged that it had swapped Rs 750 crore in scrapped currency with valid notes within five days of announcement of demonetisation

Thank BJP, RSS for letting me wage ideological battle: Rahul in Ahmedabad

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Friday said he is thankful to his opponents in the RSS and the BJP for providing him with opportunities to take his ideological battle against them to the public. Gandhi arrived here to appear before a metropolitan court in a defamation suit filed against him by the Ahmedabad District Cooperative Bank and its chairman, Ajay Patel. "I'm in Ahmedabad today, to appear in another case filed against me by my political opponents in the RSS/BJP. "I thank them for providing me these platforms & opportunities to take my ideological battle against them to the public. Satyameva Jayate," he said in a tweet after reaching Ahmedabad. The defamation suit alleges that Congress leaders, including Gandhi, had falsely claimed that the bank was involved in a "scam" to swap Rs 750 crore in scrapped notes with valid currency within five days of demonetisation in 2016.

Dear Rahul Gandhi, is Congress willing to start anew for something larger?

Much of the solution today to the current challenge to the idea of India lies outside the Congress party, writes Yogendra Yadav

It's game over for the Gandhis but Congress has a chance to begin anew

The prime minister, a former tea seller from Gujarat, makes a far more credible champion of the poor than a globe-trotting champagne socialist from Delhi with a famous last name

Rahul Gandhi has been unable to clean the Augean stable that's the Congress

Neither Rahul, nor his sister Priyanka Gandhi have shown a political temperament. The party's vote share remained virtually stagnant between 2014 and 2019. Now it stares at a possible decline