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Bharat Jodo Yatra was massive booster dose for Congress, says Jairam Ramesh

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Congress leader Rahul Gandhi with his sister and party General Secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra waves to the supporters while leading the party’s Bharat Jodo Yatra as it enters Uttar Pradesh, in Ghaziabad. File | Photo Credit: ANI Congress leader Jairam Ramesh on Saturday (September 7, 2024) said the Rahul Gandhi-led Bharat Jodo Yatra from Kanyakumari to Kashmir was a “massive booster dose” for the party and heralded a change in the country’s politics. “Today is the 2nd anniversary of the start of the truly transformational Kanyakumari to Kashmir Bharat Jodo Yatra. Over 200 Bharat Yatris led by Rahul Gandhi completed the 4000 km long yatra, overwhelmingly on foot, over a period of 145 days and covering 12 states and 2 UTs,” Ramesh said. “This yatra led to unprecedented connectivity and collectivity and was a massive booster dose for the Indian National Congress. It heralded a change in the politics of our country as well,” he said. It provided the impetus for the Manipur to Mumbai Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra during Jan-March 2024, Mr. Ramesh added. …

Delhi Confidential: UP And About | Delhi Confidential News

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The Congress Wednesday announced four more candidates for Uttar Pradesh, taking the total to 13, but there is still no word on whether Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi Vadra would contest from Amethi and Raebareli, respectively. The party is contesting from 17 seats in UP. It has fielded Pharenda MLA Virendra Chaudhary from Maharajganj. Chaudhary is one of the two MLAs the party has in UP. In 2019, the party’s social and digital media head Supriya Shrinate was the Congress candidate from Maharajganj. Shrinate triggered a row earlier this week after an objectionable remark about the BJP’s Mandi LS candidate Kangana Ranaut was posted on her Instagram handle. Retirement Rule There has been much buzz since 2014 about the BJP retiring politicians after 75, but that has not been followed in many cases. In 2022, Satyanarayan Jatiya said there was no hard-and-fast rule. The latest is the candidature of 78-year-old Ranjit Singh Chautala, who joined the BJP recently, from Hisar. The age-bar is not cast in stone, it seems. Rallying Point The TMC did not …

Day after Rahul Gandhi’s ‘weeping leader’ jibe at him, Ashok Chavan reacts | Latest News India

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Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MP Ashok Chavan, who quit the Congress last month, dismissed Congress leader Rahul Gandhi’s claims of him ‘weeping’ before Sonia Gandhi. Chavan said he did not meet Sonia Gandhi before leaving the party. Reacting to Rahul Gandhi’s comments on ‘a Maharashtra leader’ crying in front of his mother, Chavan said, “If he is saying that about me, then it is illogical and baseless. The truth is that till I resigned from the Congress, I was working at the party headquarters. I resigned from the post of MLA and a few moments later resigned from the party also.” BJP leader Ashok Chavan as seen during an interview with HT. “Till then, no one knew that I had resigned,” the former state chief minister said. “I never met Sonia Gandhi. It is baseless (to say) that I met Sonia Gandhi and expressed my emotions. It is a political statement from the election point of view,” Chavan added. Hindustan Times – your fastest source for breaking news! Read now. Chavan resigned from the Congress …

Rahul Gandhi On “Senior Leader” Who Quit

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Mumbai: Congress’s Rahul Gandhi concluded the Bharat Jodo Nyaya Yatra in Mumbai today with some barbs at foes and former friends. While the heavy artillery was reserved for the BJP, a senior leader, thought to be Ashok Chavan, who recently crossed over to the BJP, got some special attention. Without naming the former Maharashtra Chief Minister and MP, Mr Gandhi hinted that he had crossed over to evade the Central investigation agencies. “We are fighting with a power. Now the question is, what is that power. The soul of a king lies in the EVMs, ED (Enforcement Directorate), CBI, Income tax,” Mr Gandhi said, addressing a mammoth crowd in Mumbai. “I don’t want to name names, but a senior leader from this state, left the Congress. Weeping, he told my mother, ‘Sonia-ji, I’m ashamed to say, I do not have the power to fight this people, this force. I do not want to go to jail’,” he added. The Congress has levelled the “washing machine” allegation against the BJP again after Mr Chavan switched sides …

‘Ab ki baar, BJP tadipar’: Who said what at INDIA bloc’s Mumbai rally | Latest News India

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The leaders of Indian National Developmental Inclusive Alliance (INDIA) on Sunday gathered at Mumbai’s Shivaji Park on the culminating event of Congress leader Rahul Gandhi’s ‘Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra’ in a show of strength ahead of the Lok Sabha elections, which will be held in seven phases starting April 19. Leaders of the opposition alliance, from left to right, Farooq Abdullah of Jammu & Kashmir National Conference, Uddhav Thackeray of Shivsena (Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray), Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu M. K. Stalin of Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam, Rahul Gandhi and Mallikarjun Kharge of Indian National Congress, and Sharad Pawar of Nationalist Congress Party (Sharad Pawar) raise their arms in a show of unity at the conclusion of Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra in Mumbai.(AP) The event was attended by senior Congress leaders Sonia Gandhi, Mallikarjun Kharge, Priyanka Gandhi, NCP (SP) president Sharad Pawar, Shiv Sena (UBT) president Uddhav Thackeray, and RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav. Hindustan Times – your fastest source for breaking news! Read now. The ‘Nyay Yatra’, which began in strife-torn Manipur on January 14, concluded …

A Message Of Opposition Unity As Rahul Gandhi’s Yatra Ends In Mumbai Today

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Rahul Gandhi’s Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra ends in Mumbai today. Mumbai: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi’s Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra will end today in Mumbai with his key allies in attendance, two months after he began the 6,700-km foot march from Manipur. Tamil Nadu Chief Minister MK Stalin, Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav, and RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav will attend the event at Shivaji Park that marks the end of the yatra, a Congress leader said. Besides, Uddhav Thackeray and his son Aaditya, Sharad Pawar, and Jharkhand Chief Minister Champai Soren are also expected to join the event in a message of opposition unity ahead of the Lok Sabha elections. Former Congress chief and Mr Gandhi’s mother Sonia Gandhi will also be present at the event, said sources, adding she would also meet the Maharashtra alliance leaders earlier in the day. Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, who reached Mumbai yesterday and joined the yatra, will also attend the event. “Today ‘Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra’ is coming to an end. We both are very happy to …

Rahul’s Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra concludes: Opp show of strength at Shivaji Park today as INDIA bloc kicks off poll campaign | Mumbai News

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A day after the announcement of the schedule for the general elections, the opposition INDIA bloc will kickstart its poll campaign from Mumbai’s iconic Shivaji Park on Saturday. The rally at the end of Congress leader Rahul Gandhi’s Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra will be a show of strength for the INDIA bloc, with Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M K Stalin, Jharkhand Chief Minister Champai Soren, former Bihar Deputy Chief Minister Tejashwi Yadav, former Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray, NCP (SP) president Sharad Pawar, AAP leader Saurabh Bhardwaj, CPI general secretary Dipankar Bhattarchaya, National Conference leader Farooq Abdullah and former Jharkhand Chief Minister Hemant Soren’s wife Kalpana Soren, among others, are scheduled to take part. AICC president Mallikarjun Kharge too will attend the rally. Congress leader Jairam Ramesh said an invitation has also been extended to Vanchit Bahujan Aghadi (VBA) leader Prakash Ambedkar. Rahul, whose Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra concluded at Chaityabhoomi, the memorial of Dr B R Ambedkar in Dadar, on Saturday evening, will undertake a ‘Nyay Sankalp Padyatra’ from …

Congress concludes Nyay Yatra, announces ‘Paanch Nyay, Pachees Guarantees’ | Latest News India

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As Rahul Gandhi’s Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra ends in Maharashtra on Saturday, Congress general secretary Jairam Ramesh has said that the party has given 25 guarantees in five ‘nyay’ in the last 63 days and these reflect the party’s election strategy. Congress leader Rahul Gandhi and party general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra during the ‘Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra’ at Kurla in Mumbai on Saturday.(ANI) He accused the BJP of using the tactics of “polarization”. Hindustan Times – your fastest source for breaking news! Read now. “The electoral bond scam is also a big scam, this is extortion. ED has become the Extortion Directorate…We want there should be an unbiased investigation into this (electoral bond) by the Supreme Court,” the Congress leader said. In a post on X, Jairam Ramesh said the ‘Paanch Nyay – Pachees Guarantees’ will lay the path for a prosperous, just, and harmonious future for the people of India. “Today, as the Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra arrives at its concluding destination at Dr. Ambedkar Smarak, Chaityabhoomi in Mumbai after a 6,600 kilometers …

Rahul Gandhi, Sharad Pawar shares stage during farmers’ meet in Maha’s Nashik | Latest News India

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National Congress Party (NCP) chief Sharad Pawar and other Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) leaders, including Shiv Sena (UBT) leader Sanjay Raut, joined Rahul Gandhi at a farmers’ meeting at Krushi Utpanna Bazar Samiti in Maharashtra’s Nashik on Thursday. Later, Rahul Gandhi will lead a roadshow in the district as part of the Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra’s Maharashtra leg. Congress leader Rahul Gandhi was joined by NCP’s Sharad Pawar and Shiv Sena (UBT)’s Sanjay Raut for a farmers’ meet in Maharashtra’s Nashik as part of the Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra.(X/INC) Rahul Gandhi is also set to visit Nashik’s Trimbakeshwar temple as part of the yatra, which arrived in Malegaon from Dhule on Wednesday. Hindustan Times – your fastest source for breaking news! Read now. On Thursday morning, the Yatra is set to pass through Pimpalgaon Baswant and Ozar in Nashik. Rahul Gandhi will lead a roadshow from Dwarka Circle and deliver a public speech at Shalimar, where he will also unveil the statue of Indira Gandhi. Rahul Gandhi addressed a crowd from his open jeep in …

BJP supporters chant ‘Modi-Modi’ during Rahul’s yatra. Here’s how he responded | Latest News India

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Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday halted his procession while passing through Shajapur city of Madhya Pradesh and interacted with BJP supporters in a surprise encounter. Shajapur: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi interacts with supporters during the Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra, in Shajapur, Madhya Pradesh, Tuesday, March 5, 2024. (PTI) Rahul Gandhi was leading the Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra in Shajapur when some BJP supporters greeted the convoy with ‘Modi-Modi’ chants. Hindustan Times – your fastest source for breaking news! Read now. Gandhi stopped the procession to engage with the BJP supporters – led by corporator Mukesh Dubey – and distributed toffees among them, reported PTI. He exchanged greetings and handshakes as the BJP workers cheered “Jai Shri Ram”. Following the brief exchange, Gandhi returned to his vehicle, waving and blowing a kiss before continuing the journey. BJP corporator Dubey later told PTI that he welcomed Gandhi and even presented potatoes to the Congress leader. “I told Gandhi that you are welcome,” he said. Also Read: Congress preparing foolproof plan to make recruitment process transparent: Rahul …