Rahul Gandhi to visit Himachal Pradesh Oct 13October 9th, 2009 SHIMLA - Congress general secretary and MP Rahul Gandhi will visit Himachal Pradesh Oct 13 to mobilise the youth for the party, state party chief Kaul Singh Thakur said Friday. "Rahul Gandhi will visit Shimla and Dharamsala Oct 13.
Sonia Gandhi, Priyanka holidaying in ShimlaJune 15th, 2009 SHIMLA - Almost a month after the Congress returned to power with increased strength in the Lok Sabha polls this year, party president Sonia Gandhi is in a holiday mood. She has taken a few days off and is holidaying here with her daughter Priyanka Vadra, who aggressively campaigned for her brother Rahul Gandhi in his constituency Amethi in Uttar Pradesh, and her grandchildren.
Sonia Gandhi gets rousing welcome in Rae BareliJune 11th, 2009 LUCKNOW - Congress president and United Progressive Alliance (UPA) chairperson Sonia Gandhi arrived in Rae Bareli Thursday with her daughter Priyanka to a rousing welcome by supporters. This is Sonia's first visit to her parliamentary constituency after last month's Lok Sabha elections.
My fluency in Hindi due to Teji Bachchan: Priyanka GandhiApril 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.
Priyanka admires Sonia for becoming confident leaderApril 15th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Priyanka Gandhi, daughter of Congress president Sonia Gandhi, said that she 'really admires' her mother's evolution into a confident leader and felt that her brother Rahul Gandhi has a 'great vision for the country'. On the campaign trail in Sonia Gandhi's constituency of Rae Bareli in Uttar Pradesh Wednesday, Priyanka Gandhi told the CNN-IBN television channel that her mother was 'doing a wonderful job'.
Priyanka admires Sonia's evolution into confident leaderApril 15th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Priyanka Gandhi, the daughter of Congress president Sonia Gandhi, says that she 'really admires' her mother's evolution from a shy person to a confident leader. On the campaign trail in Sonia Gandhi's constituency of Rae bareli in Uttar pradesh, Priyanka Gandhi told the CNN-IBN television channel that her mother was 'doing a wonderful job'.
Priyanka compares Manmohan Singh with Mahatma GandhiApril 14th, 2009 PICHWADA - Coming out in support of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, Priyanka Gandhi Tuesday called him a 'strong and determined' leader and said even Mahatma Gandhi looked gentle. 'You cannot judge a person's strength from his external personality.
Modi, Advani have misconceptions about their age: PriyankaApril 13th, 2009 AMETHI - Countering Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi's comment that the Congress party was a 'budhiya' (old lady), Congress chief Sonia Gandhi's daughter Priyanka Gandhi said Modi and Bharatiya Janata Party's (BJP) prime ministerial candidate L.K. Advani have misconceptions about their age.
Rahul will be PM 'one day': PriyankaApril 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.
Priyanka Gandhi not averse to joining politicsApril 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...
We are after Rahul to get him married: PriyankaApril 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.
Rahul is PM material, says sister PriyankaApril 12th, 2009 AMETHI - Priyanka Gandhi says her brother Rahul Gandhi, a Congress general secretary, has requisite leadership skills to be the prime minister of India in future. 'My brother is a capable and responsible representative of Congress and has every qualification of becoming the prime minister.
Do I look old, asks PriyankaApril 11th, 2009 AMETHI - 'Do I look old,' Priyanka Gandhi, campaigning for her brother, Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi, asked people, as she took on Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) for terming the Congress party a 'budhia' (old woman). 'Kya mein budhi dikhti hoon? (Do I look old),' she asked people of Khalispur village, raising a collective guffaw from the crowd milling around.
Priyanka Gandhi to visit Rae Bareli MondayMarch 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.
Priyanka on a two-day Rae Bareli tour from MondayMarch 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.
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