Rahul Gandhi questions Narendra Modi’s silence on Arunachal boy ‘abduction’ Cong. says team must visit border The Hindu · Jan 20, 2022
Minority community leaders sidelined in Congress: Kodiyeri ‘Is it part of new policy announced by Rahul Gandhi in Jaipur’ The Hindu · Jan 18, 2022
PM's Davos address | Rahul Gandhi takes 'teleprompter' jibe at Modi, BJP leaders cite 'technical glitch' Fact-checking website Alt News co-founder Pratik Sinha said it is unlikely that the Prime Minister had a teleprompter gaffe The Hindu · Jan 18, 2022
NGOs linked to Congress receive FCRA nod MHA denies information on panel probing violations by two trusts The Hindu · Jan 17, 2022
Ravi Shankar Prasad questions Arnab Goswami's arrest Senior BJP leader Ravi Shankar Prasad also questioned the silence of the Congress leadership when its government in Maharashtra was "blatantly suppressing freedom of press." The Economic Times · Nov 4, 2020
How the Hindu man’s crisis of masculinity fuels Hindutva As I browse my Twitter timeline, surfing through replies by people clearly identifying themselves as staunch Hindus and, more importantly, as Narendra Modi’s supporters, a common theme emerges: among other religious and political iconography, they use as their display pictures the image of an angry Hanuman’s face, bathed in half… Newslaundry · Jan 14, 2020
Chandrababu Naidu’s saga of political flip-flops Nara Chandrababu Naidu, supremo of the Telugu Desam Party (TDP) and Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh, has done it again. His political heel is flexible enough that it can rotate 360 degrees. His political ideology is malleable and ductile. It takes the shape of the container, at his will. Newslaundry · May 30, 2018
Kumaraswamy swearing-in and battle of the Telugu biddas The Telugu Desam Party (TDP) leadership has reason to be chuffed after making its presence felt at HD Kumaraswamy’s swearing-in ceremony in Bengaluru on Wednesday. Newslaundry · May 24, 2018
Lesson from #KarnatakaVerdict: Congress should shake hands with BSP Exactly 15 years ago, in the summer of 2003, LK Advani and Atal Bihari Vajpayee tried to persuade Mayawati of the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) to join a national pre-poll alliance with the BJP in return for support to her in a hung UP Assembly. Newslaundry · May 21, 2018
Social media wars: Will resurgent Congress trump complacent BJP in 2019? A lot has changed between 2014 and 2018 in how India’s two major parties—the Congress and the BJP—work their social media ‘capabilities and handling’. Newslaundry · May 20, 2018
#KarnatakaFloorTest: DK Shivkumar, the man behind the manoeuvres Within hours after BS Yeddyurappa resigned, a beaming Rahul Gandhi emerged in what was his first press conference since the party’s embarrassing performance in the Karnataka Assembly elections. The optics of the press conference is not lost on anyone — the Congress president had practically gone underground since the day… Newslaundry · May 20, 2018
Revealed: How the Congress-JDS deal was cracked It was sometime late on Sunday that contact was first established between New Delhi and Malleswaram. This neighbourhood in the north-western part of Bengaluru is where the Janata Dal (Secular) patriarch, HD Deve Gowda, lives. The Congress had reached out to him because by then, a day after voting on… Newslaundry · May 16, 2018
Six ways Rahul Gandhi can get Congress ready for 2019 In an electric 24 hours, the newly-minted Congress President Rahul Gandhi can go from being a Pappu to Sheru, or plunge the depths again, depending on the results of the Assembly election in Karnataka—an electoral battle that has significant ramifications in the run-up to the general election in 2019. Newslaundry · May 14, 2018
#KarnatakaElections: How will the state’s mutts influence voters? It is not news when Prime Minister Narendra Modi or Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) president Amit Shah visits a temple or seeks benediction from the head of a mutt. But when Congress leaders do so, it raises eyebrows. According to a Congress leader, party president Rahul Gandhi and chief minister… Newslaundry · May 9, 2018
Newslaundry · May 7, 2018 India is not Rahul Gandhi’s upset wife In a recent piece on Newslaundry titled “Is Rahul Gandhi the Kalidasa of Indian politics?” the author Abid Shah used the following line:
Newslaundry · Apr 15, 2018 #UnnaoCase: Thank god for the Allahabad High Court The judicial intervention in the Unnao case has once again exposed the political-criminal nexus in Uttar Pradesh. Under pressure from the Allahabad High Court, the Prime Minister’s Office cleared the Yogi Adityanath government’s recommendation for the case to be handed to the Central Bureau of Investigation in record time on…
Newslaundry · Mar 14, 2014 Candidates 2014: Let The Gossip Stop So here it is as promised, the piece that will transparently and clearly narrate what went wrong (or right, depending on your point of view) with Candidates 2014. We will also share what we did and what we learnt.
Newslaundry · Jan 31, 2014 Why Pappu Can’t Sing “Congress Party ko desh se nikalo” (Make the Congress Party leave India) – are the words Rahul Gandhi is heard saying in a video spoofing his All India Congress Committee speech on January 17, 2014. Rohit Iyengar, a young film student in the United States of Americacreated the spoof video…