Rahul Gandhi might be coming out of the shadow of Sonia Gandhi, but he is surely following in his mother’s footsteps on the issue of declaring a prime ministerial face for 2019.
Asserting that someone will act as a catalyst to form an alternative front, he said leaders such as TMC chief Mamata Banerjee and AAP national convener Arvind Kejriwal are making efforts in that direction.
Speaking at an ‘open house’, former finance minister P Chidambaram said the Congress would be incorporating suggestions from the public in its election manifesto.
He said Jammu and Kashmir was different from other parts of the country and "we need to recognise that".
A total of 18 constituencies of eight Naxal-affected districts in the state will go to the polls in the first phase.
The CPI(M) activists took out a rally demanding a probe into the Rafale deal when a mob attacked them, the police said.
The minister was responding to a question on former chief ministers Omar Abdullah and Mehbooba Mufti staying mum on the death of Sepoy Rajendra Singh, who passed away after sustaining injuries during stone-pelting by a group of youths.
Madan Lal Khurana (82) had suffered a brain haemorrhage about five years ago and was ailing since then. His last rites would be held on Sunday.
Asking the debarred MLAs and other Dhinakaran loyalists who moved away from AIADMK to revert to the parent party, the top leadership asked them to "understand the reality" of the Madras High Court judgement that upheld their disqualification.
The Congress announced the candidates for the first phase polling in two lists on October 18 and 22.
The former finance minister, who heads manifesto committee of the Congress, was speaking at 'an open house' program organised by the Mumbai unit of the party.
The opposition party questioned why CVC Commissioner K V Chowdary had 'abruptly cancelled' his scheduled foreign tour to hold an urgent meet at night on October 23 on the matter and issued an "illegal" order against Alok Verma.
Sambit Patra, who is a party spokesperson, claimed that the land had been allotted to Associated Journals Ltd "helmed by the Gandhi family at a throw-away price" for printing the National Herald newspaper.
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