Priyanka Gandhi

Congress reiterated on Friday the promise of implementing the Old Pension Scheme (OPS) if elected to power in Himachal Pradesh. The party also slammed the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) over the Agniveer scheme.

NEW DELHI: Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Friday hit out at the government over inflation. She said that the common people are hit hard by the spiralling prices of essential commodities. Priyanka, who arrived at the party headquarters to lead the protest, marched towards the Prime Minister’s residence and also jumped a barricade […]

NEW DELHI: High-octane drama unfolded in New Delhi after Congress leaders hit the streets over the issue of inflation, unemployment and GST on essential commodities. Several senior party leaders, including Gandhi scion Rahul Gandhi and his sister Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, were detained. Congress has given a clarion call to party units to hold protests across […]

NEW DELHI: Congress interim president Sonia Gandhi, who tested positive for Covid earlier this month, was on Monday discharged from a hospital here, party leaders said. Congress leader Jairam Ramesh took to Twitter and wrote, “Congress President Smt. Sonia Gandhi has been discharged from Sir Ganga Ram Hospital this evening and advised to rest at […]

NEW DELHI: Congress interim chief Sonia Gandhi, who has been admitted to a hospital here for COVID complications, has got a fungal infection in the lower respiratory tract, said the party leaders on Friday. Sonia Gandhi was admitted to Sir Ganga Ram Hospital on June 12. She had tested positive for COVID on June 1, […]

NEW DELHI: To retire or not to retire! The deliberations are still on but it seems it will be one tough pill for Congress to swallow. Sources in the Grand Old Party told The New Indian that while Congress deliberated and mostly agreed on the contentious issues of ‘One Family, One Post’, no person should […]

NEW DELHI: Even as the crucial Congress Working Committee (CWC) meeting is underway at the party headquarters here to discuss the poll debacle in Punjab, Goa, Uttarakhand, Manipur and Uttar Pradesh, the grand old party was hit by a controversy last night over the news reports suggesting that party chief Sonia Gandhi, Rahul Gandhi and  […]

LUCKNOW (UTTAR PRADESH): Even as trends of the assembly election results showed BJP retaining power in Uttar Pradesh with a comfortable majority, former chief minister Akhilesh Yadav’s Samajwadi Party seemed to have improved its performance. Congress, however, put up one of its worst showing. Yadav was leading with a comfortable margin in his family pocket […]

LUCKNOW: Uttar Pradesh recorded 53.31 percent voter turnout in the sixth phase of the state assembly elections till 5 pm today, the data provided by the State Election Commission shows. Ambedkar Nagar district recorded the highest polling at 58.66 percent, while Balrampur was at the bottom of the list with a voter turnout of 48.53 […]

TAMKUHIRAJ (UTTAR PRADESH): For Uttar Pradesh Congress chief and two time sitting MLA from flood prone Tamkuhiraj assembly seat, Ajay Kumar Lallu, these elections are particularly important. In the earlier two elections, he rode against two different waves (Samajwadi Party in 2012 and Bharatiya Janata Party in 2017) and emerged victorious both the times. As […]