Rahul Gandhi

Gandhi to Gramsci: How Congress Lost Its Indian Roots

Unless Congress returns to Gandhi-Vinoba-Radhakrishnan, it will keep strengthening Hindutva forces with its own hands. Rahul Gandhi’s speech at the ‘Chhatron Ki Goonj’ programme in Pune was not merely a speech, but an ideological manifesto. He stated: “70 crore women...
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Kid’s memorable Rahul treasure

Mumbai: For kids, politics can wait. At a party training camp, Congress Leader of Opposition Rahul Gandhi was chatting animatedly with Jalna district chief Kalyan Dale and his family. Just then, Dale’s 9-year old grandson Swaraj Nilesh Dale came into...
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Congress Shakes Off Its Lethargy

Rahul Gandhi’s student outreach is giving the Congress a boost in western Maharashtra but converting street energy into electoral momentum will be the harder task. Pune: For a party that has spent much of the past dozen years looking politically...
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Patriarchy Politics

Rahul Gandhi’s latest clarion call to “smash patriarchy” is less a revolutionary manifesto than yet another of the Congress scion’s revealing exercises in political condescension. It presumes that Indian women need to be told what their liberation should look like...
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Rahul Gandhi to girls: ‘Smash Patriarchy’

Says, girls are being relegated to remain caged, but boys get full freedom to do whatever they want Pune : In an all-out attack on the ancient ‘Manusmriti’ social code, Congress Leader of Opposition in Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi issued...
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Rahul’s ‘Ladies Special’

Mumbai: They came carrying more than placards and flags, but with hope and faith writ on their faces. Thousands of young women from Pune city, the district and adjoining regions converged on Saturday evening to hear Congress Leader of Opposition...
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Pune set for Rahul’s women-centric outreach

Mumbai: The Maharashtra Congress is gearing up for its massive students-GenZ outreach programme in Pune on August 22, the fourth edition of its ‘Chhatron Ki Goonj’ series, which will be held as an all-women initiative for the first time and...
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Democratic Paralysis

The Parliament has just concluded one of its more dispiriting Monsoon Sessions, and the spectacle should worry anyone who still believes that parliamentary democracy is about argument rather than obstruction. As India approaches her 80th year of Independence, the Opposition...
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The Economic Engine Behind India@2047

The Goods and Services Tax (GST) has moved beyond tax reform to become the economic engine of India’s ambition to become a developed nation. AI generated image Nine years ago, the GST replaced a maze of taxes, cesses and state-level...
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MVA protests for third day:

Mumbai: The Maharashtra Vikas Aghadi (MVA) allies continued their agitation for the third day in different parts of Maharashtra with an aggressive state Congress hitting the streets today to protest the detention of Leader of Opposition in Lok Sabha Rahul...
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Gatecrash Politics

Rahul Gandhi’s decision to stage a protest outside the Prime Minister’s official residence was a spectacle that exposed a troubling decline in political responsibility. A Leader of the Opposition has every right to question the government, mobilise public opinion and...
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LDF battles voter discontent driven by anti-incumbency

Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi with party leaders during a public meeting ahead of the Kerala assembly elections in Kallachi, Kerala on Tuesday. | Pic: PTI Kerala: Kerala's assembly elections face surging anti-incumbency against LDF after...
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