Manju Singh, mother of late Captain Anshuman Singh, met the Congress MP in Raebareli. She slammed the Agnipath scheme, saying that facilities must be equal for all soldiers.
After Rahul announced that he would resign as Wayanad MP and will keep Raebareli constituency, Mallikarjun Kharge announced Priyanka Gandhi's candidature from Wayanad.
In a 6-minute video, mother and son talk about the family's long history with the two Uttar Pradesh constituencies, going back to a visit by Jawaharlal Nehru to Rae Bareli in 1921.
Congress leader Sonia Gandhi adopted Urwa gram panchayat in UP pocket borough Raebareli in 2014. Since then, she has neither set foot here nor made any major changes.
Ex-world chess champion Kasparov says hopes his joke about Congress's Rahul Gandhi contesting from Rae Bareli 'does not pass for advocacy or expertise in Indian politics.'
Congress MP adopted village in 2014, while Union minister did in 2019. Roads have come up & so have other amenities, but much remains to be done, especially in interior areas.
Rahul is also contesting from Wayanad in Lok Sabha. Congress names KL Sharma as its candidate from Amethi, the seat Rahul lost in 2019 general elections to BJP's Smriti Irani.
For local residents of these two constituencies, the fact that Rahul & Sonia seem to have taken them for granted is more hurtful than BJP’s political rhetoric suggests.
Disenfranchisement by institutional fiat is profoundly undemocratic. The effect of the ECI's new documentary process in Bihar will tilt the scales in favour of the BJP.
Mini deal will likely see no cut in 10% baseline tariff on Indian exports announced by Trump on 2 April, it is learnt, but additional 26% tariffs are set to be reduced.
India-Russia JV is also racing to deliver 7,000 more AK-203 assault rifles by 15 Aug. These are currently being made with 50% indigenisation and this will surge to 100% by 31 December.
Public, loud, upfront, filled with impropriety and high praise sometimes laced with insults. This is what we call Trumplomacy. But the larger objective is the same: American supremacy.
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