Priyanka Gandhi

MATHURA/VRINDAVAN: Ambling into the winding lanes of Chowk Bazar in Mathura — the land of Krishna Janmbhoomi — the team of The New Indian reaches the factory where aroma of boiling milk, saffron, cardamom greets with hundreds of halwais squatted before the flames. In a few hours, as milk turns into khoya, which further becomes […]

RAE BARELI: As Congress MLA from Rae Bareli Aditi Singh resigned from her membership today, political analysts watching the state elections sounded their concern on the way Congress appears to be handling the party so close to the elections. At this rate, the grand old party would not be able to win a single seat […]

NEW DELHI: Days after Congress released its first list of candidates for Uttar Pradesh, the grand old party on Thursday released its second list of 41 candidates, including 16 women candidates and social activists. The Congress has till date released the list for 191 assembly constituencies in the politically vital state. As per the new […]

DEHRADUN: There appears to be delay in the much anticipated induction of rebel BJP Minister Harak Singh Rawat into the Congress. Even as the political analysts keep a close watch on this ‘Will he? Wouldn’t he?’ situation, the Uttarakhand Congress party media incharge Professor Gourav Vallabh on Wednesday clarified that the decision on induction of […]

NEW DELHI: Congress General secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Tuesday condemned those questioning party’s candidate Archana Gautam over her dresses and asked them not to pass judgement on those who have worked hard to achieve something in their lives. Gautam, the 26-year-old model and actor, has been facing flak over the audio and visual content […]

CHANDIGARH: In a major political development ahead of the Punjab Assembly elections, former Jail Minister in the SAD-BJP government Sarwan Singh Phillaur and his son Damanvir Singh Phillaur resigned from the Congress on Monday and joined the SAD (Sanyukt). The move is expected to boost the poll prospects of the SAD (Sanyukt)-BJP-PLC (Punjab Lok Congress) […]

NEW DELHI: Fifty women candidates, including mother of Unnao rape victim, figure in the first list of 125 Congress candidates released by Congress General secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra for the upcoming Uttar Pradesh election. “As promised the list includes 50 women candidates,” said Priyanka Gandhi, who is also in-charge for Uttar Pradesh Congress while releasing […]

LUCKNOW: In view of sharp surge in Covid cases across the country, Uttar Pradesh Congress has written to the Election Commission (EC) demanding cancellation of mega events and big public meetings in the state. The Congress also made a suggestion to the poll body to stop Prime Minister Narendra Modi and UP CM Yogi Adityanath […]

NEW DELHI: Ahead of the scheduled Screening Committee meeting later in the day to discuss candidates for upcoming Punjab assembly elections, four state ministers on Tuesday met Congress General Secretary (Organisations) KC Venugopal to discuss the election strategy in the state. Punjab Home Minister Sukhjinder Singh Randhawa, Pargat Singh and two other ministers were also […]

UTTAR PRADESH: Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, who has been assigned the task of reviving the party in Uttar Pradesh where it has been out of power for the last three decades on Wednesday said that the women are being exploited and they are not getting their deserved rights and urged them to come […]