Farmers starving in a village in Sonia’s constituencyRAE BARELI - A prolonged dry spell has pushed farmers in Tera village to the brink of starvation. Ironically, it falls in one of India’s most high profile and best looked after parliamentary constituencies - that of Congress president Sonia Gandhi. Sonia checks out rural job scheme sites in Rae BareliRAE BARELI - United Progressive Alliance (UPA) chairperson Sonia Gandhi Wednesday visited over a dozen villages in her Rae Bareli Lok Sabha constituency and inspected works taken up under the central government’s flagship rural jobs scheme. Sonia hears grievances of Rae Bareli people at ‘chaupals’RAE BARELI - Congress President Sonia Gandhi today held ‘chaupals’ in three villages of Rae Bareli and heard the complaints of the people. Sonia to visit Rae Bareli todayRAE BARELI - Congress president Sonia Gandhi will arrive here today on a day-long visit. According to party sources, Gandhi will reach at Fursatganj and later she will proceed to Feroz Gandhi Degree College to interact with the party workers. Priyanka Gandhi campaigns for Sonia GandhiRAE BARELI - Priyanka Gandhi, the daughter of Congress President Sonia Gandhi, has urged the voters to come out in maximum numbers and cast their votes. No pressure on CBI in bofors case : PriyankaRAE BARELI - The Congress had put no pressure on the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) in the Bofors gun payoff case, Priyanka Gandhi said Tuesday as the party came under attack for Italian businessman Ottavio Quattrocchi being dropped from the agency’s wanted list. We Indians have a habit of complaining: PriyankaRAE BARELI - Indians have a habit of complaining instead of striving for a better future, Priyanka Gandhi, the daughter of Congress president Sonia Gandhi, observed Tuesday. Priyanka Gandhi slams Varun Gandhi over surname useRAE BARELI - Priyanka Gandhi, the daughter of Congress President Sonia Gandhi, on Monday hit back at Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Varun Gandhi, saying people vote for her family members not due to Gandhi surname but due to the work done by them. Priyanka Gandhi asks people to realize the power of their votesRAE BARELI - Priyanka Gandhi, the daughter of Congress President Sonia Gandhi, on Monday asked people to realize the power of their votes, saying no one can become a leader or get into the government without the support of the people. Attempt of shoe hurling at Manmohan Singh is “an insult to the democracy’, says BJPNEW DELHI/RAE BARELI - The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has termed the incident of shoe hurling at Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh as “an insult to the democracy”. Come in large numbers, Sonia tells Rae Bareli votersRAE BARELI - Three days after the voting percentage disappointed the Congress in Amethi, party chief Sonia Gandhi Saturday came to her citadel in Rae Bareli and asked people to turn out in large numbers next week. Sonia Gandhi to address rally in Rae Bareli todayRAE BARELI - Congress President Sonia Gandhi will address an election rally at the GIC ground here this evening. Priyanka Gandhi shocked by low voter turnout in AmethiRAE BARELI - Priyanka Gandhi Friday said she was shocked by the low voter turn out in Amethi, her brother Rahul Gandhi’s constituency in Uttar Pradesh. Priyanka Gandhi says development an election issueRAE BARELI - Priyanka Gandhi, the daughter of Congress President Sonia Gandhi, on Thursday urged people to vote strictly on the issue of development. Priyanka tours villages, seeks votes for brother RahulRAE BARELI - She travelled from village to village in this largely rural constituency of Rae Bareli and stopped to address waiting villagers, seeking votes for her mother, Congress president Sonia Gandhi, and brother Rahul Gandhi. It was yet another hectic day for Priyanka Gandhi. We are after Rahul to get him married: PriyankaRAE BARELI - Priyanka Gandhi says her family has been wishing her brother, Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi, gets married soon. Priyanka dubs Modi’s ‘budhiya-gudiya’ remarks ridiculousSHRAWASTI/RAE BARELI - Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi Sunday continued to target the Congress, calling it a ‘gudiya’ (doll) now, but Priyanka Gandhi termed his remarks so ridiculous as not worth responding to. Sonia files nomination, Rae Bareli promises thumping winRAE BARELI - Congress president Sonia Gandhi Monday filed her nomination papers to contest the Lok Sabha election from this Gandhi family bastion in Uttar Pradesh, with roaring crowds promising to elect her by record margins. Sonia owns house in Italy, no car in IndiaRAE BARELI - Congress president Sonia Gandhi owns neither a car nor a house in India but she has an ancestral home in Italy, according to papers she submitted Monday while filing her Lok Sabha nomination here. Sonia Gandhi files nomination for Rae BareliRAE BARELI - Congress president Sonia Gandhi Monday filed her nomination papers as a candidate from the Rae Bareli Lok Sabha seat. She was accompanied by her son, party general secretary Rahul Gandhi, and close family friend Satish Sharma. Sonia Gandhi to file nomination from Rae Bareilly todayRAE BARELI - Congress president Sonia Gandhi will file her nomination papers from Rae Bareilly constituency today. Congress works to ensure record victory margin for SoniaRAE BARELI - Congress chief Sonia Gandhi will file her nomination for the parliamentary polls on April 6, but the groundwork to ensure that she surpasses her four million victory margin has begun with her children Priyanka and Rahul energising party workers and putting systems in place. Why should people vote for Congress, a youth’s poser to PriyankaRAE BARELI - While her comments on cousin Varun Gandhi attracted all the media hype, a young man’s pointed query to Priyanka Gandhi asking her for a reason why people should vote for the Congress caused a flurry among party workers here Monday. BJP backs Varun, but takes on Election CommissionNEW DELHI/RAE BARELI - Varun Gandhi emerged Monday as the new poster boy of the BJP which declared he would remain its candidate in Pilibhit, triggering a hostile face-off with the Election Commission and deepening the divide within India’s most famous political family. Gandhi vs Gandhi: Priyanka tells off VarunRAE BARELI - The differences within India’s most famous political family came out in the open Monday when Priyanka Gandhi said her cousin Varun’s communally charged comments were against the traditions the Gandhi family had ‘lived and died for’. Priyanka Gandhi slams Varun for his communal remarksRAE BARELI - Priyanka Gandhi on Monday slammed her estranged cousin and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Varun Gandhi for his communal speech, saying his remarks were against the traditions and principles of the Gandhi family. Varun’s comments against principles of Gandhi family: PriyankaRAE BARELI - Varun Gandhi’s communally volatile comments were against the traditions that the Gandhi family had ‘lived and died for’, his estranged cousin Priyanka Vadra said Monday, and suggested he read the Bhagvad Gita. Read the Gita properly, Priyanka tells VarunRAE BARELI - Speaking out against her cousin Varun Gandhi’s inflammatory comments, Congress chief Sonia Gandhi’s daughter Priyanka suggested he read ‘the Gita properly’. Sonia meets, eats with Dalits in Uttar PradeshRAE BARELI - Congress president Sonia Gandhi visited several Dalit families and ate with one of them in her parliamentary constituency Amethi here Wednesday, the second and last day of her Uttar Pradesh visit. Four arrested for breaching security for Lalu Prasad, SoniaRAE BARELI - Four people were arrested Tuesday for trying to enter a high security zone in Rae Bareli town of Uttar Pradesh before the arrival of Railways Minister Lalu Prasad, Congress president Sonia Gandhi and party MP Rahul Gandhi for the launch of a rail coach factory, police said. |