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Sonia Gandhi elected unopposed to RS from Rajasthan

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Congress leader Sonia Gandhi. | Photo Credit: ANI Congress leader Sonia Gandhi was elected unopposed to Rajya Sabha from Rajasthan on February 20, officials said. Bharatiya Janata Party’s Chunnilal Garasiya and Madan Rathore were also elected unopposed to the Upper House from the State, Assembly Secretary Mahaveer Prasad Sharma said. February 20 was the last day for withdrawing nominations. As no other candidates were contesting, the three leaders were elected to Rajya Sabha unopposed, the officer said. The tenure of Rajya Sabha members Manmohan Singh (Congress) and Bhupendra Yadav (BJP) is ending on April 3. The third seat fell vacant after the BJP MP Kirodi Lal Meena resigned from the House in December after being elected MLA. The BJP has 115 members and the Congress 70 in the 200-member assembly. There are 10 Rajya Sabha seats in Rajasthan. After the results, Congress has six members and the BJP four. Source link

What Next For Raebareli After Sonia Gandhi? Rahul Gandhi Or Priyanka Gandhi?

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Sonia Gandhi files her Rajya Sabha papers with Priyanka and Rahul Gandhi looking on. New Delhi: Congress leader Sonia Gandhi‘s Lok Sabha-to-Rajya Sabha shift this year – from representing Raebareli in Uttar Pradesh to the state of Rajasthan – was supposed to signal a change in the leadership structure of a party many see as struggling for relevance – the November Telangana win aside – before the general election. Ms Gandhi – a 25-year veteran of the Lower House and the face of the Congress, in parliament and outside – this week said she would not seek re-election from Raebareli, a Congress stronghold previously held by Feroze Gandhi and former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi. The 77-year-old Ms Gandhi this morning said “health and increasing age” meant she would not contest the Lok Sabha election, and she called on the people of Raebareli to “be with my family”. That the Congress will field, so long as is possible, a member of the Nehru-Gandhi family from Raebareli (particularly after the 2019 loss of its other UP stronghold, …

Sonia Gandhi Shifts To Rajya Sabha. End Of Era, Big Change For Congress

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Sonia Gandhi was Congress President from 1998 to 2017 and from 2019 to 2022 (File). New Delhi: Congress matriarch Sonia Gandhi will stand down from the Lok Sabha this year – 25 years after her first term – leaving behind an impeccable electoral record that is all the more remarkable given her non-Indian origin and the circumstances of her entry to the country’s volatile political landscape. Ms Gandhi, 77, will not, however, withdraw from public life just yet; this is not a retirement but a repositioning, of sorts. She will move to the Rajya Sabha. She filed her nomination papers from Jaipur in Rajasthan today and will take over – the Congress has the numbers to guarantee her election – the seat now held by former Prime Minister and party stalwart Manmohan Singh, who may retire after a celebrated five-decade career. Sonia Gandhi contested her first election from the party stronghold of Amethi in Uttar Pradesh and from Karnataka’s Bellary. She won both. That was in 1999, eight years after her husband and former Prime …

Sonia Gandhi likely to file nomination for Rajya Sabha from Rajasthan today | Latest News India

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Former Congress president Sonia Gandhi is likely to file her nomination for the Rajya Sabha election from Rajasthan on Wednesday. News agency ANI reported that Sonia left her residence early in the morning as she will be travelling to Rajasthan today. The Rajya Sabha election is to be held on February 27. On Monday, after a high-level meeting of the party leaders attended by Mallikarjun Kharge, Mukul Wasnik, Ajay Maken, Salman Khurshid, KC Venugopal, it was indicated that Sonia Gandhi may shift to the upper house leaving the poll fray for the first time. Sonia Gandhi is likely to file her Rajya Sabha nomination from Rajasthan today(PTI) Sonia Gandhi, who was Congress president for almost 22 years between 1998 and 2022, is a five-time Lok Sabha MP. Discover the thrill of cricket like never before, exclusively on HT. Explore now! Sonai Gandhi was elected from Uttar Pradesh’s Amethi and Karnataka’s Bellary in 1999 and she retained Amethi among the two. In 2004, Sonia Gandhi contested from Rae Bareli vacating Amethi for Rahul Gandhi. According to …

The Hindu Morning Digest, February 14, 2024

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Police use tear gas to disperse farmers gathered at the Punjab-Haryana Shambhu border during their ‘Delhi Chalo’ march. | Photo Credit: PTI Centre rules out MSP law; talks with farmers may resume As the protests by farmers belonging to the Samyukt Kisan Morcha – Non-Political (SKM-NP), a splinter group of the Samyukt Kisan Morcha (SKM), and the Kisan Mazdoor Morcha (KMM) escalated into a full-blown conflict with the security forces at various points on the Haryana-Punjab border on Tuesday, the Centre yet again made it clear that announcing a guaranteed minimum support price (MSP), the key demand of the farmers, will not be possible. The government, however, offered a third round of talks with the leaders of the groups. Sonia Gandhi to file nomination for Rajya Sabha polls from Rajasthan: sources Chairperson of Congress Parliamentary Party and former party president Sonia Gandhi, will be filing nomination for the Rajya Sabha from Rajasthan on February 14, according to sources. Ms. Gandhi is currently serving her fifth term in Lok Sabha and it will be her first stint in the upper …

Would have abjudicated my oath had I not reacted on UPA chairperson’s remark: Rajya Sabha Chairman Jagdeep Dhankhar

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With Opposition Congress seeking removal of chair’s comments on UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi’s “delegitimise judiciary” remark, Rajya Sabha Chairman Jagdeep Dhankhar on Friday said he would have abjudicated his oath and failed in his constitutional obligation had he not reacted. Dhankar said he suffered an “allegation that he was part of a system to delegitimise judiciary” and the Chair cannot be allowed to be dragged on partition stance. The Rajya Sabha Chairman also said he made a subdued response to Ms. Gandhi’s remark in the Upper House after “massive homework” and it could not have been more “moderated and reflective of the highest level”. He said his response in the House was “the lowest level of reaction” and he could not have averted it. Also read | Parliament Winter Session updates, December 23 After the papers were laid in the House, senior Congress leader Pramod Tiwari raised a point of order on the issue, and his senior colleague and Leader of Opposition Mallikarjun Kharge said, “If a Lok Sabha Member (Sonia Gandhi) talks outside, it …