RAHUL GANDHI

Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi accompanied Union Minister of State for Rural Development Pradeep Jain for a raid on a food godown in Jhansi district of Uttar Pradesh on Monday evening. Gandhi, who has taken on the Mayawati government on several occasions, has earlier made such visits as a regular drill. His presence at the godown took food department officials by surprise. In fact, such was the impact that they locked their offices and fled. The Gandhi scion spent the night in Medhki village of the district. He had dinner at a villager's house, held a village meeting and slept in a school building.

To attract the youth of Jammu and Kashmir into the party fold, Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi will “appeal to them to join mainstream politics”, sources here said Sunday. The Congress leader will interact with students of Kashmir University in Srinagar Sep 26 to strengthen the ongoing membership drive of the party’s youth wing, Indian Youth Congress, which is expected to have elected representatives in a few months, sources said. The visit will also help the Congress general secretary better understand the issues related to youth in the border-state, said sources. “During his interaction with the students in the Valley, the Congress general secretary is expected to appeal to them to join mainstream politics,” said a senior Congress functionary. Gandhi will also address a public meeting in Kargil Monday. Later in the day, he will attend a convention of elected representatives of panchayats and meet the potential candidates of the Indian Youth Congress. “Rahul Gandhi wants to e...

Rahul Gandhi will visit earthquake -affected areas in Sikkim on Tuesday and meet victims and their families. Gandhi was scheduled to visit Meghalaya on September 21 for a public meeting of Youth Congress membership. But as the tragedy occurred on Sunday evening leading to casualties in Sikkim, the plan was modified. Gandhi will now visit Gangtok on Tuesday morning before attending the scheduled Youth Congress meeting in Meghalaya. Sources said the AICC general secretary will visit the state capital at 9:00am in the morning and meet the earthquake victims lodged in hospitals and homes. His Youth Congress membership meeting is scheduled at 11:30am at Mini Stadium, Ampathi in West Garo Hills District of Meghalaya. The death toll in Sunday's powerful temblor has shot up to 92, including 53 in the Himalayan state while more than 3,000 people have been rescued in quake-hit areas of Sikkim by defence forces so far.

Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi today faced an angry crowd which raised angry slogans against him when he went to meet the victims of the high court bomb blast at the Ram Manohar Lohia hospital. He reached the hospital in the afternoon and spent nearly half an hour with the victims and their family members. Gandhi sought to know from the hospital administration the nature of the injuries suffered by the victims in the blast. While leaving the hospital, the hostile crowd of relatives of the victims raised slogans 'Rahul Gandhi Sharam karo, Rahul Gandhi vapas jao'. 

Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi, who had gone to the US to bring back his mother Sonia, has returned to the national capital. Rahul had gone to the US some days ago amid clear indications from the party that the Congress president was recovering well post surgery and expected to be back in the national capital by the first week of September. Highly placed party sources confirmed the return of the AICC general secretary. They said Sonia Gandhi has not yet returned, but indicated that she could be back here shortly. Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, who was staying with her mother, was also back here some 10 days ago in an indication that the Congress president was recovering well. The 64-year-old Congress president had undergone a surgery for an undisclosed ailment in a US hospital on August 4. Sonia Gandhi had constituted a four-member team of Rahul Gandhi, AK Antony, Ahmed Patel and Janardhan Dwivedi to look after party affairs in her absence.