Priyanka compares Manmohan Singh with Mahatma Gandhi

October 2nd, 2009 RAJKOT - Hundreds of residents participated in a 'Gandhi Vichar Yatra' here today on the occasion of Mahatma Gandhi's 140th birth anniversary. Students from over ten schools of the Mahatma Gandhi Charitable Trust, and colleges, participated in the rally.

October 2nd, 2009 NEW DELHI - Prime Minister Manmohan Singh announced on Friday that the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS) would be renamed as the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS). Addressing a Panchayati Raj conference here, Singh said the dedication of NREGS to Mahatma Gandhi was a fitting tribute to the Father of the Nation.

October 2nd, 2009 NEW DELHI - Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Friday rechristened the government's flagship rural job scheme the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme. "This is a small effort to pay homage to the Mahatma, who always believed in Gram Swaraj.

October 2nd, 2009 NEW DELHI - Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Congress president Sonia Gandhi were amongst the many ministers and parliamentarians who paid tribute to Mahatma Gandhi and former prime minister Lal Bahadur Shastri at Parliament House on the occasion of their birth anniversaries Friday. Amongst the other dignitaries present on the occasion to pay floral tributes to the two leaders were Deputy Speaker of the Lok Sabha, ex-MPs and family members of Lal Bahadur Shastri, said a release issued by the Lok Sabha secretariat here.

April 27th, 2009 SURAT - Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh on Monday attacked the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) over the 2002 post-Godhra communal riots in Gujarat, saying that only the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) could give the politics of division.

April 24th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Priyanka Gandhi, the daughter of Congress president Sonia Gandhi, has given the credit for her proficiency in Hindi to the mother of Bollywood superstar Amitabh Bachchan. 'It is all thanks to Teji Bachchan,' Priyanka Gandhi said in an interview to NDTV broadcast Friday night.

April 20th, 2009 AMETHI - Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, the daughter of Congress President Sonia Gandhi, on Monday defended the Congress' decision to go alone in Uttar Pradesh in ongoing general elections. Priyanka termed the decision of the Congress as an opportunity to strengthen the United Progressive Alliance (UPA).

April 20th, 2009 AMETHI - Priyanka Gandhi Monday said her grandmother and late prime minister Indira Gandhi was her 'idol' and also underlined that staying away from active politics was her own decision. 'She was absolutely my idol at that time,' Priyanka Gandhi, who is often compared with her grandmother, said here when asked what memories she had of Indira Gandhi as a child.

April 14th, 2009 PICHWADA - Days after the Congress was taunted with 'budhiya' (old woman) comments by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), Priyanka Gandhi Tuesday said it is her dream to be remembered by people once she turns old. 'It is my dream that people remember me when I turn 'budhiya',' Priyanka Gandhi, the daughter of Congress chief Sonia Gandhi, said while campaigning in the state.

April 12th, 2009 RAE BARELI - Priyanka Gandhi says her family has been wishing her brother, Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi, gets married soon. Asked about the 38-year-old Congress MP's marriage plans, Priyanka Gandhi said: 'Why don't you ask him? We are after him (to get married) since long.' 'I would not be a matchmaker for him,' she added.

April 12th, 2009 AMETHI - Priyanka Gandhi, daughter of Congress president Sonia Gandhi, Sunday said she was not averse to plunging into politics, but in the same breath added that this was not something she wants to do. Replying to questions from reporters in Amethi, where she is campaigning for her brother Congress MP Rahul Gandhi, Priyanka said: 'As I am growing older I have realised 'never' is a bad thing to say...

April 12th, 2009 AMETHI - Priyanka Gandhi feels her brother Rahul has leadership skills and could be the prime minister of India 'one day' but maintains the present incumbent Manmohan Singh would adorn the post after the Lok Sabha elections. On the campaign trail for Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi in Uttar Pradesh's Amethi constituency, Priyanka said: 'He (Manmohan Singh) is hopefully the next prime minister of the country and Rahul is also a capable and responsible Congress worker.' 'I have full faith in my brother.

April 12th, 2009 AMETHI - Priyanka Gandhi on Sunday gave some indications of possibility of her brother and Congress General Secretary Rahul Gandhi becoming Prime Minister one day. "I have full faith in my brother.

April 12th, 2009 RAIPUR - The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Sunday rapped Congress party's star campaigner Priyanka Gandhi for her age remark. Addressing reporters in Raipur, BJP spokesperson Ravi Shankar Prasad said that the Gandhi family sees any remark on the Congress party as a personal attack and it seems that they only constitute the party.

March 24th, 2009 RAE BARELI - Priyanka Gandhi on Monday slammed her estranged cousin and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Varun Gandhi for his communal speech, saying his remarks were against the traditions and principles of the Gandhi family. "Varun's comments are against the traditions and principles of the Gandhi family, and he has gone against what the Gandhis have lived and died for.