RAHUL GANDHI

RANCHI: Amid China's objection to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's visit to Arunachal Pradesh, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Thursday said the state is very much part of India. "Arunachal Pradesh is an Indian state, Tamil Nadu is an Indian state, Jharkhand is an Indian state. My attitude towards all the states is the same and it will not be changed. For me Arunachal Pradesh is like any other state. It does'nt make any difference," he told reporters here. He was asked how he would strengthen the Youth Congess in Arunachal when China was raising objections to the Prime Minister's visit there. Gandhi did not reply to another question on how ties with China would improve when Beijing was raising such an objection.

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi has expressed his displeasure over China's criticism to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's visit to Arunachal Pradesh , reports said. Taking strong exception to China's stand, the Gandhi scion said, 'Arunchal is an integral and important part of India.' 'Arunachal Pradesh is an Indian state, Tamil Nadu is an Indian state, Jharkhand is an Indian state. My attitude towards all the states is the same and it will not be changed. For me Arunachal Pradesh is like any other state. It does not make any difference,' he told reporters in Ranchi on Thursday. Singh this month visited Arunachal Pradesh to campaign for his Congress party ahead of Tuesday's state assembly polls. On the poll day (Tuesday), China's Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Ma Zhaoxu made a statement on 'an Indian leader's visit' to the disputed east section area of China-India boundary. Ma Zhaoxu stated that China-India border has never been officially demar...

In the recent assembly elections, political parties were seen wooing their 'new' vote bank like never before. L K Advani spoke to youngsters in a gym, and now we have Rahul Gandhi - considered a youth icon - reaching out in college campuses. Within two weeks of his much publicised visited to the Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) campus in Delhi, Rahul's already visited more campuses in Himachal, Kerala and Jharkhand. All this is part of his direct contact programme with the youth, where he is part politician and part motivational speaker talking about larger issues affecting the country - politics, austerity, Pakistan or Naxalism. And not all of it is in tune with his party's politics. "He remembered our demands, he has promised to look into our complaints," says Manish Tiwari a student at the Indian School of Mines (ISM), Dhanbad. Congress MP and former Youth Congress member Manick Tagore adds," For the first time in politics, someone is speaking the tr...

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