(Bloomberg) — India’s main opposition leader Rahul Gandhi accused Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his party of spreading violence and hate in a fiery standoff between the two rivals in the parliament Monday. Most Read from Bloomberg Gandhi, who became the parliament’s first leader of the opposition in a decade after his party almost doubled […]
The News Rahul Gandhi will assume office this week as leader of the opposition in India’s Parliament, the Lok Sabha, filling a post that has lain vacant for the entirety of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s decade-long tenure. As leader of the opposition, Gandhi will get various perks including a government bungalow and an increased salary, […]
(Bloomberg) — India’s opposition is gearing up to play a bigger role in the parliament, naming Rahul Gandhi into a key position and fielding its own candidate for speaker of the house in a rare contest for the post. Most Read from Bloomberg Gandhi was selected leader of the opposition in the Lok Sabha, the […]
Prime Minister Narendra Modi‘s chief rival Rahul Gandhi was appointed Tuesday to lead India’s opposition in parliament, a key post that has been vacant for a decade. Congress party general secretary K. C. Venugopal said Gandhi would be “a bold voice for the common people of India” and ensure the government “is held firmly accountable at […]
How absurd of India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi to claim publicly that Mahatma Gandhi’s legacy was rediscovered by the Richard Attenborough biopic of the 1980s. The truth is far from being so simple. Has Modi forgotten that Gandhi was assassinated by an activist of the very same paramilitary RSS (Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh), which remains tightly […]
The leader of India’s main opposition party Rahul Gandhi brandished a copy of the Indian constitution at an election rally — not the Chinese constitution, as members of the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) falsely suggested. They shared a picture taken at a rally during India’s national elections but a clearer photo from the event […]
(Bloomberg) — Sign up for the India Edition newsletter by Menaka Doshi – an insider’s guide to the emerging economic powerhouse, and the billionaires and businesses behind its rise, delivered weekly. Most Read from Bloomberg India’s main opposition party selected Rahul Gandhi as its candidate to contest a key seat in Uttar Pradesh state previously […]
NEW DELHI (Reuters) – India’s Election Commission said on Thursday it has sought responses from the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the opposition Congress on alleged violations of poll rules by Prime Minister Narendra Modi and opposition leader Rahul Gandhi. India is holding the world’s largest election over seven phases, with votes due to […]
As India geared up for elections that the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is expected to dominate, an edited video of opposition leader Rahul Gandhi surfaced in social media posts mocking him for apparently failing to correctly add together two numbers. The video omits the politician saying “eight” so it appears he is giving the […]