New Delhi: Congress MP Rahul Gandhi on Monday told the Supreme Court that the allegations against him that he wrongfully confined and raped a woman in his Amethi Lok Sabha constituency were an act of "sinister political mudslinging". "It is a clear case of sinister political mudslinging against a promising young leader of the country," senior counsel P P Rao, appearing for Rahul, told the apex court bench of Justice...
11:04 PM, Sep 24, 2012
Amethi: Rahul Gandhi's Amethi visit was marred by protests for the second consecutive day even as the Congress general secretary on Friday promised major changes in the organisational set up following shockingly dismal performance of the party in the Nehru-Gandhi pocket borough in UP polls. If it was the delay in construction of an over bridge which led residents of Chitkapur and Radheypur villages to raise slogans before Munshiganj guest...
07:14 PM, Sep 14, 2012
Amethi: Congress General Secretary Rahul Gandhi had to face protests from students of the Government Girls Inter-College in Amethi on Thursday. The students were upset about the lack of infrastructure in his constituency. This is the second visit by Rahul Gandhi to Amethi after the drubbing the Congress received in the March assembly elections. ...
05:51 PM, Sep 13, 2012
New Delhi: Congress General Secretary Rahul Gandhi will visit his Parliamentary seat Amethi from Thursday, his first visit after the AICC has started effecting changes in the state party unit to make it fighting fit ahead of the next Lok Sabha elections. The two-day visit comes at a time when the party has decided to divide Uttar Pradesh in eight zones for strengthening the organisation in the wake of the...
06:34 AM, Sep 13, 2012
Lucknow: Rae Bareli and Amethi, the twin parliamentary constituencies of Congress president Sonia Gandhi and general secretary Rahul Gandhi, would now get uninterrupted power supply. According to an official communication to the UP Power Corporation Limited on Tuesday, the urban areas of these towns would now be exempted from power cuts and enjoy round the clock power supply, sources in the corporation said on Wednesday. It was officially communicated to...
10:17 PM, Aug 29, 2012
Lucknow: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Monday arrived on a three-day visit of his Parliamentary constituency Amethi, the first after his party's dismal show in the Uttar Pradesh assembly election. The Congress General Secretary will meet party workers and review the party's performance during his visit. "During the visit to the constituency, Rahul will be meeting party workers and review the party's performance. Why the party lost and the reasons...
12:12 PM, Apr 30, 2012
New Delhi: Congress General Secretary Rahul Gandhi will be making his first trip to Uttar Pradesh on Monday after the Congress' poor performance in the state assembly elections. Rahul, who had taken responsibility for the defeat, will be meeting party workers in his constituency Amethi. He will also review party's performance in the recent assembly election in the state with Congress workers, party sources said. With additional information from PTI...
06:38 AM, Apr 30, 2012
Lucknow: Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi will visit his Parliamentary constituency Amethi from April 30 to May 2 for the first time since his party's drubbing in the recent Assembly elections in Uttar Pradesh. According to Gandhi's office in New Delhi, he will interact with party workers in his Parliamentary Constituency. This will be his first visit to Uttar Pradesh after his party's dismal show in the Assembly elections in...
03:26 PM, Apr 26, 2012
Amethi/Rae Bareli: Amethi and Rae Bareli, the pocket boroughs of Congress since the days of Indira Gandhi, gave a shocker to the party as it managed to win only two of the 10 Assembly seats in these twin Lok Sabha constituencies. The most stunning was the defeat of sitting MLA Amita Singh, wife of Congress MP Sanjay Singh, in Amethi seat where she had to bite the dust by a...
05:55 PM, Mar 06, 2012
Rae Bareli: Exhorting the electorate to vote for Congress to get rid of fear and backwardness, Congress star campaigner Priyanka Gandhi on Thursday asked people to exercise their franchise for a new trend in politics which is dedicated to people. Addressing an election meeting in Sadar Assembly segment of the constituency from where Akhilesh Singh, the sitting MLA having a criminal record is seeking re-election, Priyanka said the question before...
02:11 PM, Feb 16, 2012
Amethi: In Amethi that went to vote on Wednesday, a peculiar custom played out at a polling booth. It was democracy at work at the polling station. Amethi, Rahul's constituency, has usually been on the side of the Gandhis, much like Pancham Lal has been for the Congress. Pancham was the first to cast his vote and it's considered a good omen. Pancham has been a lucky mascot, but he...
09:40 AM, Feb 16, 2012
In Amethi, that went to vote on Wednesday, a peculiar custom played out at a polling booth " the Raja, the Rani and the Dhobi. ...
11:32 PM, Feb 15, 2012
Lucknow: Brisk polling continued in the third phase of UP Assembly elections for 56 seats in 10 districts with 47.05 per cent of the over 1.75 crore electorate exercising their franchise till the late afternoon. Sultanpur district recorded maximum 50 per cent polling, whereas minimum 44.88 per cent was registered in Jaunpur. "Voting began at 7 AM for the third phase of assembly elections and 47.05 per cent polling was...
10:39 AM, Feb 15, 2012
New Delhi: The stage is set for voting in all the 12 Assembly constituencies of this district where the fate of nearly 250 candidates will be sealed on Wednesday. 1.77 crore voters are expected to cast their ballots on Wednesday. Polling began for 56 seats across eastern UP and the Vindhyachal region in which 1018 candidates have stood up including 77 women and 121 candidates with a criminal background. How...
07:17 AM, Feb 15, 2012
New Delhi: With at least three Assembly constituencies falling under the Amethi parliamentary seat going to polls on Wednesday, the third phase of polling in Uttar Pradesh will put to test the charisma of Rahul Gandhi, who represents the Lok Sabha seat. Three assembly constituencies of Jagdishpur, Gauriganj and Amethi go to polls on Wednesday in the third phase of polling. While Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi and his sister...
01:11 AM, Feb 15, 2012
New Delhi: With at least three Assembly constituencies falling under the Amethi parliamentary seat going to polls tomorrow, the third phase of polling in Uttar Pradesh will put to test the charisma of Rahul Gandhi, who represents the Lok Sabha seat. Three assembly constituencies of Jagdishpur, Gauriganj and Amethi go to polls on Wednesday in the third phase of polling. While Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi and his sister Priyanka...
11:35 PM, Feb 14, 2012
Amethi: Striking a cord with the farmers and people of his constituency, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Saturday gave them the credit for the political lessons that he has learnt. The Congress general secretary said that he has returned to his "home" after touring the entire state in the past two months. "Whatever I have learnt is from my visits to the houses of farmers in Amethi. whatever I know...
10:02 PM, Feb 11, 2012
In 1999, we experienced a 'television moment'. We were covering Sonia Gandhi's Amethi campaign when we happened to meet her daughter Priyanka. For the next ...
12:08 AM, Feb 10, 2012
Lucknow/ New Delhi: A political storm is brewing over Election Commission's decision to transfer a poll observer, Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer Pawan Sen, who stopped Priyanka Gandhi's husband Robert Vadra's motorcycle rally near Amethi on Monday. While the Election Commission claims that the order to transfer Sen was issued before the incident, political parties allege that it was done to please the Congress and the Gandhi family. The Election...
12:29 PM, Feb 07, 2012
New Delhi: A day before Uttar Pradesh votes on Wednesday in the first phase of assembly elections, there is already a controversy brewing. A poll observer, who stopped Priyanka Gandhi's husband Robert Vadra's motorcycle rally in the Gandhi bastion of Amethi for violating the model code of conduct, has been transferred to Goa. However, reacting to CNN-IBN report, the Election Commission claims that the transfer of IAS officer Pawan Sen...
08:39 AM, Feb 07, 2012
