Police jeep hits Rahul Gandhi’s ‘favourite’ vehicleAMETHI - A police jeep escorting Priyanka Gandhi’s cavalcade here Saturday lost control and hit a green Qualis that is said to be Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi’s favourite vehicle, party officials said. The Qualis was the one in which Priyanka had driven her brother around his parliamentary constituency Friday. More women should be associated with self-help groups: Rahul GandhiAMETHI - Congress General Secretary Rahul Gandhi said here on Friday that more women should be associated with self help groups working in rural areas to make them financially strong. Rahul- Priyanka commence Amethi tourAMETHI - Congress General Secretary Rahul Gandhi and his sister Priyanka have begun their two - day visit of Amethi constituency. Reach out to the poor, Rahul tells IT studentsAMETHI - Despite the progress the country has made during the last 62 years, “60 percent of rural India still has no connectivity”, Congress general secretary and Amethi MP Rahul Gandhi said Wednesday, as he called upon students of an information technology institute here to “reach out to the poor”. When Rahul walked past ace bowler in AmethiAMETHI - It came as a shock for ace Indian pace bowler R.P. Singh when Congress general secretary and Amethi MP Rahul Gandhi walked past him without noticing him. Uttar Pradesh needs Congress for development: RahulAMETHI - Congress general secretary and Amethi MP Rahul Gandhi Tuesday said he would do everything possible for the development of Uttar Pradesh if people opted for the Congress in the state. Rahul tours Amethi, meets schoolchildrenAMETHI - Congress general secretary and MP from Amethi Rahul Gandhi Monday visited a nursery school, sat on the ground with children and and chatted with them for an hour. Rahul Gandhi to visit Amethi on Aug 17AMETHI - Congress General Secretary Rahul Gandhi will visit Amethi from August 17. According to party sources, Rahul is expected to pay surprise visits to some villages in the constituency. uring his three-day visit, he will also review the progress made under the NREGA when he will travel to the interior areas. Rahul says Joshi’s remarks wrong, but declares war on Mayawati (Second Lead)AMETHI - Congress leader Rahul Gandhi Friday declared war on the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) government in Uttar Pradesh asserting that his party would now aggressively work for the poor irrespective of any police action, though he conceded state party chief Rita Bahuguna Joshi’s remarks against Chief Minister Mayawati were “unfortunate and wrong. Rahul Gandhi says Joshi’s remarks against Mayawati unfortunate, but Mayawati also at faultAMETHI - Congress party general secretary Rahul Gandhi on Friday told reporters at a impromptu press conference here that remarks made by Uttar Pradesh Congress unit chief Rita Bahuguna Joshi against state Chief Minister Mayawati were unfortunate, but at the same time understandable because of the lack of development in the state. Joshi’s comments ‘unfortunate’, says RahulAMETHI - Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi Friday described Uttar Pradesh party chief Rita Bahuguna Joshi’s comments about Chief Minister Mayawati that have landed her in jail as “unfortunate”. Joshi’s remarks unfortunate: Rahul GandhiAMETHI - Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi Friday said the remarks by the party’s Uttar Pradesh chief Rita Bahuguna Joshi against Chief Minister Mayawati were unfortunate and wrong”. Mayawati has time for statues, but not for governance: Rahul GandhiAMETHI - Accusing Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati of misusing government funds, Congress Party General Secretary Rahul Gandhi on Friday said Uttar Pradesh has place for only statues and elephants but not for the issues related to development of the state. Rahul Gandhi to visit Amethi todayAMETHI - Congress General Secretary Rahul Gandhi will arrive here today on a three-day visit. According to party sources, Rahul is expected to pay surprise visit to some villages in the constituency. Poor turnout in Amethi in initial hours of pollingAMETHI - Uttar Pradesh’s most high profile parliamentary constituency Amethi, the pocket borough of Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi, sprung a big surprise by registering a poor turnout of voters in the initial hours of polling Thursday. Rahul Gandhi criticises BJP’s former ‘India Shining’ campaignALLAHABAD/ AMETHI - Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi has ridiculed the Bharatiya Janata Party’s ‘India Shining’ campaign during the last election, saying it shone only in the houses of the rich. No personal hatred against Rajiv Gandhi’s killers: Priyanka GandhiAMETHI - Priyanka Gandhi on Tuesday said that her family has no ‘hatred or anger’ against killers of her father and late Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi. India can never forgive Prabhakaran: Priyanka GandhiAMETHI - Congress president Sonia Gandhi’s daughter Priyanka Gandhi Tuesday said that India cannot forgive LTTE chief Velupillai Prabhakaran for her father’s assassination in 1991, but she personally does not hate him. Left needs to move forward from its regressive anti-development policies: Priyanka VadraAMETHI - Priyanka Vadra, the daughter of UPA chairperson and Congress president Sonia Gandhi, has said that the Left needs to have a rethink on some of its regressive and anti-development policies if it is desirous of taking Indian forward in the new millenium. No personal hatred towards my father’s killers: Priyanka GandhiAMETHI - Priyanka Gandhi Tuesday said though it has been very difficult to fill the void created by her father Rajiv Gandhi’s assassination in 1991, the family harboured no ‘personal hatred’ towards his killers. Priyanka takes dig at Left’s ‘regressive’ approach, but okay with allianceAMETHI - Priyanka Gandhi, canvassing for her brother Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi, Tuesday did not rule out the UPA forming a post-poll alliance with the Left, but said the Communists should do a rethink on their ‘regressive’ approach with regard to building up a strong economy. Priyanka Gandhi defends Congress’ decision to go alone in UPAMETHI - Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, the daughter of Congress President Sonia Gandhi, on Monday defended the Congress’ decision to go alone in Uttar Pradesh in ongoing general elections. Politics ‘doesn’t come from within’ for PriyankaAMETHI - Working up the crowds, addressing half a dozen public meetings, Priyanka Gandhi Monday campaigned here for her brother and Congress candidate Rahul Gandhi, but said she herself was keeping off active politics of her own volition. Indira Gandhi was my idol: PriyankaAMETHI - Priyanka Gandhi Monday said her grandmother and late prime minister Indira Gandhi was her ‘idol’ and also underlined that staying away from active politics was her own decision. Rahul Gandhi accuses Mayawati of preventing Amethi, Rae Bareilly’s developmentAMETHI - Congress General Secretary Rahul Gandhi on Saturday criticized Mayawati-led Uttar Pradesh Government for drifting Amethi and Rae Bareilly away from development. I’ll work to bring back Congress in Uttar Pradesh: Rahul GandhiAMETHI - Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi Saturday accused the Mayawati government in Uttar Pradesh of ‘pushing back’ development in the party strongholds of Amethi and Rae Bareli and said he would concentrate his efforts to bring the Congress back to power in the state. Mayawati government stymying development in Amethi, Rae Bareli: Rahul GandhiAMETHI - Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi Saturday accused the Mayawati government in Uttar Pradesh of ‘pushing back’ development in the constituencies he and his mother Congress president Sonia Gandhi represented in parliament. Priyanka Gandhi on hectic campaign trailAMETHI - Over a dozen public meetings, a run of nearly 100 km in a BMW SUV, with only a common request to the voters of Amethi - ‘Please vote for my brother’. That was how Priyanka Gandhi spent Tuesday as she criss-crossed the Uttar Pradesh constituency canvassing for votes for her brother, Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi. Priyanka Gandhi exhorts people to vote for Amethi’s developmentAMETHI - Priyanka Gandhi on Tuesday exhorted people to vote for her brother Rahul Gandhi for the continuous growth of the area. Modi, Advani have misconceptions about their age: PriyankaAMETHI - Countering Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi’s comment that the Congress party was a ‘budhiya’ (old lady), Congress chief Sonia Gandhi’s daughter Priyanka Gandhi said Modi and Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) prime ministerial candidate L.K. Advani have misconceptions about their age. |