When a person in the crowd at a rally in Rae Bareli asked Rahul Gandhi about his marriage plans and his sister Priyanka Gandhi Vadra prodded him to respond, the Congress Rae Bareli candidate said with a smile, "Jaldi hi karni padegi." (I will have to get married soon.)
"I challenge them (Priyanka Gandhi Vadra and Rahul Gandhi) to pick any channel, anchor, place, time and issue to debate with the BJP. Dono bhai-behen ek taraf aur BJP ka ek pravakta ek taraf, doodh ka doodh, paani ka paani ho jaayega...From our party, Sudhanshu Trivedi is enough. They will g
Amethi and Rae Bareli -- two constituencies considered old turfs of the Gandhi family has again become the point of focus as Congress leader Rahul Gandhi has entered the fray in Rae Bareli and family's close aide Kishori Lal Sharma has been fielded against Smriti Irani in Amethi.
"He (Rahul Gandhi) did not go for another seat before the voting in Wayanad took place. As soon as the voting took place and input came that the winning probability was low, you went for another seat," Vallabh said.
Hitting out at Congress leader Rahul Gandhi over his candidature from Raebareli for the Lok Sabha elections, BJP MLA Balmukundacharya on Saturday said the former would be better suited to contest from his "maternal home" in Italy.
"He has contested from South (referring to Rahul Gandhi contesting from Wayanad in Kerala). Now he is contesting from North (Rahul Gandhi is also in the race from Rae Bareli in Uttar Pradesh). He undertook a Bharat Yatra and therefore have the right to contest from any part of the Country,"
Amid the ongoing talks in the political spectrum over Rahul Gandhi's candidature from Rae Bareli, Former Congress leader Pramod Krishnam on Saturday made a startling claim and said that there is a big conspiracy going on in the party against Priyanka Gandhi.
The series of attacks by BJP and Congress has still not stopped after Congress fielded KL Sharma from Amethi. The BJP candidate from Raebareli, Dinesh Pratap Singh, took a dig at Rahul Gandhi and said that the Congress leader has sent his peon to contes6t from Amethi against BJP's Smriti Ira
A day after the Congress fielded Rahul Gandhi from Raebareli and KL Sharma from Amethi, Congress MP Imran Pratapgarhi said on Saturday that Raebareli and Amethi are equal for the party and the Gandhi family, and that the love and respect for both constituencies are the same.
Union Minister Anurag Thakur mocked Congress leader Rahul Gandhi for running from Wayanad to Rae Bareli and said that the latter will face defeat in both the Lok Sabha constituencies.
This comes in reference to Congress leader Jairam Ramesh's post where he called Rahul Gandhi "an experienced player of politics and chess" following his announcement as the party's candidate for the seat.
"Rahul Gandhi fled from Amethi, Rae Bareli and stuck in Kerala (Wayanad). Now, he is coming back here from Kerala out of fear. But the parties which became friends (alliance) during this, none of those two parties (Congress and Samajwadi Party) have the courage to visit Lord Krishna in Mathu