Rae Bareli to emerge as best district in Uttar Pradesh: Rahul Gandhi

September 24th, 2009 LUCKNOW - Congress General Secretary Rahul Gandhi breached his security on Wednesday evening during a surprise visit to Uttar Pradesh. Gandhi left the Uttar Pradesh Government furious by his step.

August 18th, 2009 AMETHI - Congress general secretary and Amethi MP Rahul Gandhi Tuesday said he would do everything possible for the development of Uttar Pradesh if people opted for the Congress in the state. Rahul, who is on a three-day visit to his constituency, told a huge gathering of villagers after inaugurating a village school: "The state needs the Congress to ensure allround development of Uttar Pradesh." "We are trying our best but the state government is not eager to help the central government for the implementation of developmental schemes", he added.

July 15th, 2009 LUCKNOW - Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi will visit his parliamentary constituency Amethi in Uttar Pradesh Friday to meet party workers and others injured in a baton charge during a protest over power shortage Monday night, a party spokesperson said Wednesday. "He (Rahul Gandhi) will be visiting Amethi Friday for a thanksgiving meeting with the party workers, Akhilesh Pratap Singh, spokesperson of Uttar Pradesh Congress, told IANS.

May 16th, 2009 LUCKNOW - With several key leaders in the electoral race, counting began in each of the 80 Lok Sabha constituencies of Uttar Pradesh Saturday morning. According to an Election Commission spokesperson: 'Counting for each of the 80 seats in UP commenced at 71 district headquarters across the state commenced at 8 a.m.

April 24th, 2009 RAE BARELI - Priyanka Gandhi Friday said she was shocked by the low voter turn out in Amethi, her brother Rahul Gandhi's constituency in Uttar Pradesh. 'I lost my sleep after seeing such a low turn out,' Priyanka said at a public meeting in Rae Bareli, from where her mother and Congress president Sonia is contesting the Lok Sabha elections.

April 18th, 2009 AMETHI - Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi Saturday accused the Mayawati government in Uttar Pradesh of 'pushing back' development in the constituencies he and his mother Congress president Sonia Gandhi represented in parliament. Addressing a poll rally in Tilohi block in his constituency of Amethi, Rahul Gandhi also said he would make all his efforts to bring the Congress party back to in power in Uttar Pradesh.

April 18th, 2009 AMETHI - Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi Saturday accused the Mayawati government in Uttar Pradesh of 'pushing back' development in the party strongholds of Amethi and Rae Bareli and said he would concentrate his efforts to bring the Congress back to power in the state. Addressing a poll rally in his constituency of Amethi, Rahul Gandhi also said that he shared a family-like bond with the people here and not a political one.

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 10th, 2009 HYDERABAD - Congress General Secretary Rahul Gandhi is scheduled to address various rallies across the Andhra Pradesh on Friday and Saturday. Andhra Pradesh is getting ready for the first phase of polling on April 16.

April 4th, 2009 LUCKNOW - The Ulema Council Saturday announced two more candidates in Uttar Pradesh for the Lok Sabha polls and indicated it may not name a party nominee against Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi in the Amethi seat. The Ulema Council had earlier announced that it will field candidates against Congress president Sonia Gandhi and her son Rahul.

March 23rd, 2009 LUCKNOW - Congress president Sonia Gandhi's daughter Priyanka Gandhi will visit her mother's Rae Bareli parliamentary constituency in Uttar Pradesh later Monday, a party official said. 'Priyankaji will be reaching the Bachrawaan tehsil shortly to attend the first meeting with our party workers ahead of the Lok Sabha polls,' district head of the party Yogendra Sharma told IANS on phone from Rae Bareli.

March 21st, 2009 LUCKNOW - Congress president Sonia Gandhi's daughter Priyanka Gandhi will be on a two-day tour of her mother's Rae Bareli parliamentary constituency in Uttar Pradesh from Monday, a party official said Saturday. 'Priyankaji is coming here to encourage our party workers ahead of the Lok Sabha polls,' Shiv Ganesh, a member of the state assembly, told IANS over the telephone from Rae Bareli.

February 28th, 2009 AMETHI - Saying he felt like a 'family member' among the people here, Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi Friday said he would leave no stone unturned to make Rae Bareli - which houses his and his mother Sonia Gandhi's constituencies - the state's best district. 'Amethi and Rae Bareli will witness a sea change.

January 26th, 2009 RAE BARELI - Railways Minister Lalu Prasad Tuesday accused the previous National Democratic Alliance (NDA) government of 'plotting' to privatise the railways. Lalu Prasad was in Uttar Pradesh's Rae Bareli town along with United Progressive Alliance (UPA) chairperson Sonia Gandhi and Amethi MP Rahul Gandhi to inaugurate a rail coach factory.

January 26th, 2009 RAE BARELI - Four people were arrested Tuesday for trying to enter a high security zone in Rae Bareli town of Uttar Pradesh before the arrival of Railways Minister Lalu Prasad, Congress president Sonia Gandhi and party MP Rahul Gandhi for the launch of a rail coach factory, police said. 'All the four were inside a black colour car without any number plate,' said a police official.