Bangalore: AICC General Secretary Rahul Gandhi is on a two-day visit to Karnataka. On Saturday, Rahul will be attending the Indian Youth Congress (IYC) and National Students' Union Of India (NSUI) - the national executive of Congress' student wings and state Youth Congress convention. Rahul's visit is being seen as another step towards getting party workers together before the 2014 general elections. Rahul, during his two-day visit, will attend many...
09:57 AM, Jun 02, 2012
Patna: Differences continued to dog the political parties in Bihar over naming of the newly-constructed Kosi bridge giving new lifeline to Mithilanchal region. State Youth Congress president Lalan Kumar and former MP Ranjit Ranjan on Saturday said they would petition Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Union Surface Transport Minister C P Joshi soon to name it after veteran socialist leader B P Mandal. While Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Vinodanand...
02:25 PM, Feb 11, 2012
New Delhi: Calling corruption a "plague", Congress president Sonia Gandhi on Tuesday said the government was committed to eradicating it and hoped that the opposition would help in passage of anti-graft measures including Lokpal. She said together with the Lokpal bill, the government was working on a variety of legislations "which will systematically fight corruption." "I hope that the opposition will support us in passing these important measures," Gandhi said...
05:49 PM, Nov 29, 2011
New Delhi: UPA Chief Sonia Gandhi is expected to address the Youth Congress convention in Delhi on Tuesday. The convention has been named 'Buniyad'. AICC General Secretary and Youth Congress leader Rahul Gandhi had adressed the newly-elected office bearers on Monday. "People talk about corruption. The biggest corruption is in our political system. If we don't bring in change in the political system, we can't fight corruption. The only way...
10:54 AM, Nov 29, 2011
New Delhi: The youth should join politics to change the system and fight corruption, Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi said on Monday while exhorting the young to join the Indian Youth Congress (IYC). Inaugurating a two-day national convention of newly-elected office-bearers of the IYC, the Congress MP said the Congress had opened its doors to the young. "The only way to change the political system is to bring youth to...
02:14 AM, Nov 29, 2011
New Delhi: Holding that the "biggest corruption" was within the country's political system, Rahul Gandhi on Monday made a passionate plea to youths to take a plunge into politics to clean the system and eradicate the menace. Addressing the first-of-its-kind convention of Youth Congress delegates from across the country, Gandhi said only the entry of more youths into the country's political system can remove corruption from it. "People in this...
01:14 PM, Nov 28, 2011
New Delhi: Congress General Secretary Rahul Gandhi will be addressing a two day convention of the youth congress on Monday. Rahul will speak to the newly-elected office bearers of the Youth Congress at the first-ever convention of the body in the backdrop of Assembly polls to five states, including Uttar Pradesh. The timing is significant as it comes just before elections in Uttar Pradesh, where the party's strategy is being...
07:34 AM, Nov 28, 2011
Patna: Bihar Youth Congress on Saturday flayed the report card of the Nitish Kumar government, saying it was aimed at "misleading" and "befooling" the people. "The report card is nothing but an eyewash and is also aimed at misleading and befooling the people on all issues," state YC president Lalan Kumar told reporters. Kumar held the ruling NDA responsible for the rampant corruption in the state and accused it of...
12:59 PM, Nov 26, 2011
Allahabad: Condemning the attack on his supporters by Youth Congress activists, yoga guru Ramdev on Friday said the party should "inculcate virtues of humility and discipline" among its cadre. "A political party which has a nation-wide presence should inculcate the virtue of humility and discipline among its cadre...I was aghast upon being told that these were Youth Congress activists. What were they livid about? Am I an anti-national, anti-social element?"...
01:52 PM, Nov 18, 2011
Kumbakonam: Demanding the hanging of the three death row convicts in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case, Tamil Nadu Youth Congress President M Yuvaraja on Thursday took exception to Congress leader Mani Shankar Aiyar's stand that the capital punishment be commuted to life imprisonment. "The offenders in the assassination of the former prime minister must be punished. There is no law that delay in execution of the sentence would entail the...
07:47 AM, Sep 15, 2011
Panaji: Two Congress ministers in Goa, who had resigned from the state Cabinet and the party on Sunday, have decided to reconsider their exit after meeting the party high command. Upset over the disqualification of Churchill's daughter Valanka from Goa Pradesh Youth Congress Committee (GPYCC) elections, Churchill and Joaquim Alemao, both Congress ministers in Kamat Cabinet, had submitted their resignation. On Monday night, Churchill Alemao told PTI from Delhi that...
09:59 AM, Jul 26, 2011
Lucknow: Demanding Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati's resignation for allegedly failing to check the law and order situation in the state, Youth Congress on Thursday said it would launch an agitation soon at the tehsil level for uprooting the BSP government. Incidents like murder and rape have become order of the day in Uttar Pradesh and an agitation at the tehsil level would be launched to uproot this government, All...
12:40 AM, Jun 24, 2011
New Delhi: Rahul Gandhi's Youth Congress has not fared well in the Assmebly elections, especially in Tamil Nadu and Kerala. This has raised the question on whether his brand and strategy is working at all. In Tamil Nadu, all of the nine Youth Congress nominees lost and in Kerala, out of the 18 nominees, only six have won. Over the last one year, Rahul has concentrated on the South, which,...
05:36 PM, May 15, 2011
Thiruvananthapuram: Youth Congress Kerala committee member Jaya Dali on Sunday resigned from the outfit to contest as an independent from the Kattakkada segment in the district in the April 13 Assembly polls. Addressing reporters here, she alleged that Congress was giving away tickets only to undeserving candidates and flayed the party's decision to field N Sakthan from Kattakkada. She said Sakthan was facing several corruption charges. The party leaders had...
12:49 PM, Mar 21, 2011
Aurangabad: AICC General Secretary Rahul Gandhi and Maharashtra Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan on Saturday addressed the media in Aurangabad. Rahul said, "It is clear that corruption is a serious issue in our politics. We have to look at it systemically." Speaking on Malegaon Additional DC Yashwant Sonawane's murder, Rahul said, "We need to know why this is taking place. It is because doors of the political system are closed." Addressing...
11:02 AM, Jan 29, 2011
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