Rahul Gandhi
49 articles on India Vote Kar are tagged “Rahul Gandhi”, published between April 2018 and December 2019. They are filed mainly under Congress, BJP, Election commission 2019. They are listed below, newest first, followed by related coverage and topics.
Sam Pitroda blames poor Hindi for ‘hua toh hua’ remark on 1984 riots
Congress leader Sam Pitroda offered an explanation on Friday for his widely criticised ‘hua toh hua’ remark about the 1984 anti-Sikh riots, as campaigning for the sixth phase of the Lok Sabha election came to an end. Pitroda’s explanation The 77-year-old leader had come under fire a day earlier for using the phrase, roughly meaning “it happened, so what”, while brushing aside questions about the riots, which took place under a Congress government. Many critics read it as justifying the violence. Pitroda said his words had been taken out ofRead More
Column: Is parliamentary democracy the right system for India?
As India held what has been called the largest general election ever, an opinion column asked two questions: how democratic is India’s democracy, and is the parliamentary system right for the country? President or Prime Minister The column noted the frequent suggestion that a directly elected president could deliver development more efficiently than a prime minister, since a president is not answerable to Parliament and can pick ministers from outside it. It argued, however, that concentrating so much power in one person is less democratic and unnecessary. It pointed outRead More
Rahul Gandhi in Barabanki: Modi cannot pressure me, I have no past to hide
Congress president Rahul Gandhi said on Wednesday that he had punctured the myth of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s clean image, and that unlike other opposition leaders he could not be pressured by the Prime Minister because he had nothing in his past to fear. Addressing a public meeting at the Union Inter College ground in Ramnagar, Barabanki, Gandhi said the leverage over Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav and BSP president Mayawati lay with Modi, but his own situation was different. He was campaigning for Tanuj, son of party veteran PLRead More
Rahul Gandhi’s flight to Patna returns to Delhi after engine trouble
Congress president Rahul Gandhi’s flight to Patna on Friday morning developed engine trouble and had to return to Delhi. What Gandhi said Gandhi reported the problem on Twitter, posting a short video from the private aircraft. He said the plane had been forced back to Delhi because of the engine fault, and that his public meetings that day in Samastipur in Bihar, Balasore in Odisha and Sangamner in Maharashtra would start late. An earlier scare This was not the first such incident involving the Congress president’s aircraft. In April lastRead More
Modi says Rahul Gandhi’s ‘Modi’ surname jibe insulted an entire backward community
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday hit back at Congress president Rahul Gandhi over his remark linking people with the Modi surname to theft, saying the comment amounted to an insult to the whole backward community the Prime Minister comes from. Speaking at an election rally, he also targeted NCP chief Sharad Pawar over dynastic politics. The surname row At a recent rally in Maharashtra, Gandhi had asked why so many of the accused had Modi as a surname, naming Nirav Modi, Lalit Modi and Narendra Modi, and wondered howRead More
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