Saddam Hussain, Muammar Gaddafi Also Used to Win Elections, Says Rahul Gandhi in Latest Salvo at Centre
3 years, 9 months ago

Saddam Hussain, Muammar Gaddafi Also Used to Win Elections, Says Rahul Gandhi in Latest Salvo at Centre

News 18  

Scaling up his attacks on the government, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday said that Iraq’s dictator Saddam Hussain and Libya’s Muammar Gaddafi used to win elections as well adding that electoral democracy can be “destroyed” in the 21st century if one can control the social media and institutions. It wasn’t like they weren’t voting but there was no institutional framework to protect that vote,” Gandhi said in an online interaction with Professor Ashutosh Varshney of the Brown University in the US. After two foreign organisations criticised India on freedom and democracy, Rahul Gandhi said the “situation is much worse than they have imagined”. Asked about Sweden’s V-Dem Institute’s democracy report that has downgraded India from the ”world’s largest democracy” to an ”electoral autocracy” and the US government-funded NGO, Freedom House, downgrading the country’s status from ”free” to ”partly free”, he said these foreign institutions have their view, but ”frankly, we do not need a stamp from them”.

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India’s Rahul Gandhi nominated as opposition leader after election gains
6 months, 2 weeks ago

India’s Rahul Gandhi nominated as opposition leader after election gains

Al Jazeera  

Rahul Gandhi, scion of the Nehru-Gandhi family that governed India for decades in the wake of independence, has been nominated to lead India’s opposition in parliament following an election result that pulled his party back from the political wilderness. A meeting of the leadership of Congress – the leading opposition party in the country – on Saturday voted unanimously to …

Rahul Gandhi is leading a mega-alliance against Narendra Modi in the Indian election
8 months ago

Rahul Gandhi is leading a mega-alliance against Narendra Modi in the Indian election

ABC  

Over the last two years, he has walked the length and much of the breadth of India, been convicted for defamation, suspended from parliament, and now, had his party's funds frozen. The mighty BJP machinery, including Prime Minister Narendra Modi, has been largely successful in labelling Rahul Gandhi "Pappu" and "Prince" throughout his political career. "Rahul Gandhi cannot claim to …

Rahul Gandhi exudes confidence in winning upcoming State election
1 year, 4 months ago

Rahul Gandhi exudes confidence in winning upcoming State election

The Hindu  

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi, who arrived in Kargil on his motorbike, on Thursday exuded confidence in winning upcoming elections in the States of Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Chhattisgarh and Telangana. Wearing a biker’s gear, Mr. Gandhi described the Ladakh tour as a continuation of the ‘Bharat Jodo Yatra’, a march he started last year from south to north India. Several local …

Rahul, Congress have no right to talk about democracy: Kishan
1 year, 8 months ago

Rahul, Congress have no right to talk about democracy: Kishan

Deccan Chronicle  

HYDERABAD: Neither Rahul Gandhi, nor his Congress need to lecture the country about democracy and democratic values, Union minister G. Kishan Reddy said on Tuesday, adding that it was the Congress that overthrew around 90 state governments of which the Gandhi family was responsible for 75 events. Speaking to reporters outside the Parliament House in New Delhi, Kishan Reddy said …

Rahul Gandhi does not like backseat driving: Jairam Ramesh
2 years, 1 month ago

Rahul Gandhi does not like backseat driving: Jairam Ramesh

Deccan Chronicle  

Hyderabad: Rahul Gandhi does not like backseat driving or asserting his authority and his greatest value going forward will be to play the role of an “ideological compass” for the Congress, senior leader Jairam Ramesh said on Wednesday. The Bharat Jodo Yatra, Ramesh told PTI, has been a “real booster dose” for the public relationship of the party and its …

Rahul Gandhi the acknowledged leader of Congress: Chidambaram
2 years, 3 months ago

Rahul Gandhi the acknowledged leader of Congress: Chidambaram

The Hindu  

Senior Congress leader P. Chidambaram on Sunday favoured a consensus for the post of the AICC chief and asserted that Rahul Gandhi will always have a "pre-eminent place" in the party irrespective of whether he is president or not as he is the "acknowledged leader" of the rank and file. Lok Sabha members Shashi Tharoor, Manish Tewari, Karti Chidambaram, Pradyut …

BJP leaders criticise Rahul Gandhi over Parliament speech
2 years, 10 months ago

BJP leaders criticise Rahul Gandhi over Parliament speech

Hindustan Times  

NEW DELHI: Bharatiya Janata Party leaders, including Union ministers, criticised Congress leader Rahul Gandhi for his speech in Parliament in which he slammed the government over growing disparities between the rich and the poor while accusing it of destroying the idea of India by ruling a union of states as a “kingdom”. Congress leader Rahul Gandhi speaking in Lok Sabha. …

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