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Tuesday, May 14, 2024
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Topic: Rahul Gandhi

BJP needs Rahul Gandhi as Congress president as much as his own party

Rahul Gandhi is one ‘Pappu-Shehzada-Aurangzeb’ story that the BJP actually sees benefit in keeping alive.

Shehzad Poonawalla: The TV talking head challenging Rahul Gandhi’s elevation in Congress

Shehzad and Tehseen’s access to the top leadership of the Congress is a matter of envy for many party functionaries.

‘Rahul will be the last Gandhi to be Congress president’

Former foreign minister Natwar Singh says there’s a distinct change in Rahul Gandhi since his ‘Pappu’ days, but taking over the Congress will be a huge challenge.

Congress knows BJP’S weaknesses in Gujarat, but isn’t able to exploit them

While Rahul Gandhi has punctured holes in the BJP’s development narrative, the Congress doesn’t seem to have a fresh, promising narrative to sell.

Rahul Gandhi is making his father’s Shah Bano-Ayodhya mistakes and fighting the war on BJP’s terms

Rahul Gandhi is playing to the BJP’s Hindutva strengths. It’s a blunder his dad committed too, and the party’s never recovered.

Rahul Gandhi is truly a cosmo-religious man

Raising religion as an issue in the emerging campaign shows that the BJP is losing its development plank and is re-polarising the electorate.

Rahul Gandhi should know that wearing religion on his sleeve comes at a cost

Rahul Gandhi has realised that the negation of religion as a political strategy had proved to be a disaster in Gujarat and he has also realised that wearing religion on his sleeves will help.

Rahul Gandhi should stick to Pidi’s coochie coo identity. It is safe and abstract.

To claim Indianness, Rahul Gandhi must be a Hindu. And being Hindu is more than religious construct, it is a barometer of Indian-ness.

If Rahul was smarter, he would have called himself a Ram Bhakt during UP elections

Clearly, his political strategists have told him that it would pay to swipe the ‘Hindu card’ in this election.

BJP claims Rahul signed Somnath visitors’ book for non-Hindus, fabricated says Congress

BJP calls Rahul Gandhi’s visits to multiple temples in Gujarat a sham, Congress insists its vice-president is a sacred thread-wearing Hindu.

On Camera

India has a workplace creche problem. See how Karnataka, Assam, Odisha are taking action

Based on the NSSO's data, a man spent an average of 74 minutes a day on childcare whereas a female spent a disproportionate length of 134 minutes a day on the same.

Brokerages & hedge funds make a killing as India’s inexperienced youth flocks to the equity market

Indians aged 20-30 are trading in options market in droves, but know nothing about it & so keep losing money. If losses mount, it could undo gains India saw in investment culture, analysts fear.

Pensionless Maha Vir Chakra awardee who trained Mukti Bahini continues to fight for rights

Chiman Singh, injured in 1971 India-Pakistan war, was discharged as non-pensioner in 1972. In his petition, he states denial of pension is contrary to settled law.

What’s common between Netflix Chamkila and Trudeau’s trouble-infested Canada? They don’t get Punjab

Even in the weeks leading up to Chamkila’s assassination there were massacres every other day. To airbrush all of this is sheer intellectual cowardice if not a crime.