Kanhaiya Kumar had contested Lok Sabha elections in 2019 on a CPI ticket from Bihar's Begusarai. He, however, lost to BJP's firebrand leader Giriraj Singh.

Rahul Gandhi, who is on a two-day visit to Jammu, said he belongs to a family of Kashmiri Pandits, adding that he would help the community.

The education minister's response came a day after the former Congress president called for the postponement of the NEET examination as many other exams are scheduled around September 12.

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi will pay obeisance at Mata Vaishno Devi temple in Jammu on Thursday.

Rahul Gandhi's tweet comes a day after the Supreme Court had turned down a petition to defer the NEET exam, which is scheduled for September 12.

The resolution was passed unanimously on the final day of the two-day national executive meeting of IYC in Goa, the Congress youth wing said in a statement.  

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi said it was a journey where he would go and listen and then go and look around to find instruments that could transform the voice of this nation that he was hearing.

Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday had attacked the government on inflation.

Punjab Congress chief Navjot Singh Sindhu on Thursday returned to his home state after he was denied an appointment by the party leadership for a meeting.

Hitting out at the Centre, Rahul Gandhi said, "Farmers, labourers, small and medium businesses, MSMEs, salaried class, government employees and honest industrialists are being demonetised. Who is being monetised? 4-5 friends of Narendra Modi ji - economic transfer is being done."

The Congress party has been attacking the govt over the rise in petrol, diesel and LPG prices and has been demanding reduction in them by removing some of the taxes imposed by the central govt.

Hitting out at Gandhi, BJP general secretary Tarun Chugh said the Congress leader should explain as to what his party did for the famous memorial, which commemorates the sacrifice of hundreds of unarmed civilians killed by the British forces in 1919, during its rule for decades.

Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday took a dig at the Centre as he slammed the renovation of Jallianwala Bagh Smarak.

Earlier on Friday, Rawat met Congress interim president Sonia Gandhi and reportedly sought to be relieved as the party's in-charge of Punjab.

Rahul Gandhi's attack came after the government came out with the national asset monetisation pipeline to garner Rs 6 lakh crore in the coming years.

Bhupesh Baghel said he has invited Rahul Gandhi to Chhattisgarh. He (Rahul Gandhi) will first visit Bastar, and inspect the various projects and works there, Baghel added.

Sources said that Baghel has been called to Delhi by Venugopal for further talks to resolve the crisis in the Chhattisgarh Congress.

The Congress leadership has again summoned Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel for discussions a day after he returned to Raipur after a marathon session with Rahul Gandhi on the power tussle with Health Minister TS Singh Deo.

The development has come amid the Congress' infighting between Amarinder Singh and Navjot Singh Sidhu and seems to be far from over.

Rahul Gandhi took a dig at the Centre over the rise in coronavirus cases in the country, and said people should take care of themselves as the government is "busy in sales".