Rahul Gandhi to visit Amethi on Aug 17August 13th, 2009 AMETHI - Congress General Secretary Rahul Gandhi will visit Amethi from August 17. According to party sources, Rahul is expected to pay surprise visits to some villages in the constituency.
Sonia hears grievances of Rae Bareli people at 'chaupals'August 10th, 2009 RAE BARELI - Congress President Sonia Gandhi today held 'chaupals' in three villages of Rae Bareli and heard the complaints of the people. Soon after her arrival, she first proceeded to Beriaya Ka Tola at Rampur Sudakan village in Bachrawa Assembly segment where she had a one-to-one interaction with mostly Dalit women.
Sonia to visit Rae Bareli on MondayAugust 8th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Congress president Sonia Gandhi will arrive in Rae Bareli on Monday on a three-day visit. During her visit, she will inaugurate the Rajiv Gandhi hostel building at the Feroz Gandhi Engineering Institute.
Rahul Gandhi to visit Amethi todayJuly 17th, 2009 AMETHI - Congress General Secretary Rahul Gandhi will arrive here today on a three-day visit. According to party sources, Rahul is expected to pay surprise visit to some villages in the constituency.
Sonia to visit Rae Bareli todayJune 11th, 2009 RAE BARELI - Congress president Sonia Gandhi will arrive here today on a day-long visit. According to party sources, Gandhi will reach at Fursatganj and later she will proceed to Feroz Gandhi Degree College to interact with the party workers.
Come in large numbers, Sonia tells Rae Bareli votersApril 25th, 2009 RAE BARELI - Three days after the voting percentage disappointed the Congress in Amethi, party chief Sonia Gandhi Saturday came to her citadel in Rae Bareli and asked people to turn out in large numbers next week. In her first visit to her constituency after filing nominations, she told an election rally: 'Our family shares a five-generation relation with Rae Bareli.
Narendra Modi invites Sonia Gandhi to GujaratApril 23rd, 2009 AHMEDABAD - Gujarat Chief Minister and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Narendra Modi on Thursday invited Congress President Sonia Gandhi to Gujarat. "Sonia Gandhi is coming to Gujarat for campaigning.
I'll work to bring back Congress in Uttar Pradesh: Rahul GandhiApril 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.
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.
Sonia Gandhi files nomination for Rae BareliApril 6th, 2009 RAE BARELI - Congress president Sonia Gandhi Monday filed
her nomination papers as a candidate from the Rae Bareli Lok Sabha seat. She was accompanied by her son, party general secretary Rahul Gandhi, and close family friend Satish Sharma.
Rae Bareli to emerge as best district in Uttar Pradesh: Rahul GandhiFebruary 28th, 2009 AMETHI - Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi Friday said that he will not leave any stone unturned to make Rae Bareli the best district in Uttar Pradesh. 'Amethi and Rae Bareli will witness a sea change.
Rae Bareli will be Uttar Pradesh's best district: RahulFebruary 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.
Sonia meets, eats with Dalits in Uttar PradeshJanuary 27th, 2009 RAE BARELI - Congress president Sonia Gandhi visited several Dalit families and ate with one of them in her parliamentary constituency Amethi here Wednesday, the second and last day of her Uttar Pradesh visit. To have the first hand experience of problems and challenges faced by the Dalits, Gandhi visited their huts in various villages in Rae Bareli, a Congress leader said.
Sonia mourns Venkataraman's death, cancels functionsJanuary 27th, 2009 LUCKNOW - Congress party president Sonia Gandhi, who is on a two-day visit to her constituency Rae Bareli, cancelled all public functions Wednesday following the death of former president R. Venkataraman.
Sonia wishes speedy recovery to PMJanuary 26th, 2009 RAE BARELI - Congress chief Sonia Gandhi Tuesday wished Prime Minister Manmohan Singh speedy recovery after a heart surgery. 'As you all know, he underwent a bypass surgery.