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TopicPriyanka Gandhi Vadra

Topic: Priyanka Gandhi Vadra

Priyanka was Congress’s star player in Winter Session. But too early to draw parallels with Rahul

Congress MPs started coming to Parliament earlier than usual to meet Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, it is learnt. Praise for her maiden speech cut across party lines or coalitions.

BJP calls Priyanka’s Palestine handbag ‘communal virtue signaling’. She terms it ‘typical patriarchy’

Speaking in Lok Sabha, Congress MP Priyanka remembered her grandmother and former PM Indira Gandhi as ‘great martyr who led India to victory in the 1971 War against Pakistan’.

Medical infra woes & animal attacks. In left-behind Wayanad, residents wonder if Gandhis are answer

With no full-fledged medical college, emergency cases must be rushed to Kozhikode, about 70 km away. Priyanka Gandhi promises action, but people worry about focus on national issues.

Manipur CM Biren Singh is brazening it out. He must be replaced

ThePrint view on the most important issues.

Why Congress can’t afford Rahul Gandhi to sit out Amethi contest

For Congress to send out the message that it is fighting to win in 2024, Rahul Gandhi must show that he has it in him to take on the challenge in Amethi.

‘Attacked’ outside Congress HQ, Bigg Boss ex-contestant Archana Gautam & father blame Priyanka’s secy

Gautam contested last year's UP polls on Congress ticket from Hastinapur reserved constituency. She was suspended from primary membership of the party in June.

After UP exit, Priyanka is taking over as Congress star campaigner— ‘people see her, they see Indira’

Priyanka has been hot on the campaign trail in every poll-bound state, from Himachal to Karnataka to MP, ever since she resigned as UP general secretary in-charge.

Priyanka launches Congress campaign in MP, promises ‘Old Pension Scheme, 100 units of free power’

Before her rally, Priyanka Gandhi Vadra performed puja at Gwarighat on the banks of river Narmada, giving a clear sign of the shape Congress campaign for MP is likely to take. 

Priyanka Gandhi resigned as Congress’s UP general secretary in October, no replacement yet

Priyanka tendered her resignation to interim president Sonia Gandhi after new team was appointed for UP Congress. She is looking for role in poll-bound states, it is learnt.

Priyanka Gandhi meets protesting wrestlers at Jantar Mantar, calls for WFI chief Brij Bhushan’s ouster

'I don't have any expectations from the PM, because if he had been concerned about these wrestlers, then he would have at least called them and spoken with them,' says Gandhi.

On Camera

US has misread India. New Delhi will hedge, push back, and assert

India’s foreign policy today is driven less by Western alignment or global liberalism and more by domestic political imperatives — economic, ideological, and electoral.

Smartphones, gems, pharma: Which Indian exports will be worst hit by Trump tariffs, which will be spared

Electronics—specifically smartphones—& energy & pharma products make up 30% of Indian exports to US. 25% tariff on India came into effect Thursday, extra 25% to kick in by August-end.

Pakistan army chief Asim Munir to attend CENTCOM chief’s farewell, second visit to US in two months

Munir was earlier in America in June when he had a two-hour luncheon meeting with the US president at the White House.

Pakistan, Dhaka have played Washington well. Back home, Modi ecosystem has an inner conflict

To protect ourselves from Trumpian diplomacy, first we must introspect the bipolarity within our establishment discourse.