Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday paid tributes to Congress leader Rajiv Gandhi on his death anniversary. India’s Prime Minister between 1984 and 1989, Mr. Gandhi was assassinated by LTTE cadres at Sriperumbudur in Tamil Nadu in 1991 during an election campaign. Mr. Modi tweeted, “I pay tributes to former PM Shri Rajiv Gandhi Ji … Read more
Nearly half a century ago, in an academic assessment of the evolution of political parties, the Congress had rightly been described as an “election-winning machine”. The party was found to be intrinsically adaptive, not innovative. Unlike the pre-independence era, it had come to shun mobilisation of supporters and rather preferred the easy recourse of aggregation … Read more
Remembering former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi on his 31st death anniversary, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Saturday said his father was a visionary leader whose policies helped shape modern India. Taking to Twitter, the Wayanad MP said, “My father was a visionary leader whose policies helped shape modern India. He was a compassionate and kind … Read more
New Delhi: As a leadership crisis grips the Congress, experts having chronicled the country’s oldest political party said on Monday that it may be theoretically possible for the party to have a president outside the Nehru-Gandhi family, but not practically. The party’s history shows that it has had at least 13 presidents from outside the … Read more
NEW DELHI: Chief minister Ashok Gehlot on Wednesday alleged that the Centre has become the main conspirator in the attempt to topple his government violating the spirit of the people’s mandate and the anti-defection law. In a letter to PM Modi, Gehlot alleged Modi’s ministerial colleague Gajendra Singh Shekhawat and many other ministers were involved … Read more