Responding to Congress leader Ajay Rai's remark that party MP Rahul Gandhi will contest from Amethi in the ensuing Lok Sabha polls, Union Minister Smriti Irani on Friday said that the people of this parliamentary constituency are "respected" and will not compromise with their self-respect.
After declaring that Rahul Gandhi will contest from Amethi in the 2024 Lok Sabha elections, Uttar Pradesh Congres chief Ajay Rai praised former Congress President and said that “The people of Amethi consider him as their family because he fulfilled the promises.”
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi, who was defeated in the 2019 general election by BJP's Smriti Irani, is all set to contest the 2024 Lok Sabha elections from Amethi in Uttar Pradesh.
Congress party president Mallikarjun Kharge on Thursday appointed Ajay Rai as the president of the Uttar Pradesh Congress Committee with immediate effect.
A special MP-MLA court in Uttar Pradesh's Varanasi awarded life imprisonment to jailed gangster-turned-politician Mukhtar Ansari in the over three decades old murder case of Awadhesh Rai.
"I didn't intend to insult anyone. It's our colloquial language which means that somebody suddenly appears, says something and then disappears," said the Congress leader.
Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Mahila Morcha District President Pushpa Singh on Tuesday filed a complaint against Congress' Ajay Rai for his objectionable remark against Union Minister Smriti Irani in Sonbhadra district of Uttar Pradesh.
After Congress leader Ajay Rai refused to apologise for saying 'latka-jhatka' which is argues that it is a "common phrase", Union Minister Smriti Irani on Tuesday said that using such a bad phrase is not the culture or tradition of Varanasi adding that it might be a mirror of Congress's poli