However, the Congress President lost from his family pocket borough of Amethi to his rival BJP's Smriti Irani by a margin of 55,000 votes.

Karnataka Chief Minister and Janata Dal-S leader H.D. Kumaraswamy on Thursday met Congress President Rahul Gandhi and requested him not to give up his party post following the Congress party's rout in the Lok Sabha elections.

Siddaramaiah and Dinesh Rao said, Karnataka Congress was with Gandhi and trusts his leadership. In Karnataka, the Congress and JDS, running the coalition government, could win only one seat each with the BJP sweeping 25 seats.

PM Modi Swearing in ceremony: Narendra Modi has been sworn in as the Prime Minister of India. With him, his Council of Ministers have also taken their oaths. President Ram Nath Kovind administered the oath of office and secrecy to Modi and his Council of Ministers.

Several high profile guests are expected to grace the swearing in ceremony. From BIMSTEC leaders to prominent opposition leaders, a range of dignitaries will be witness to Prime Minister Narendra Modi's oath-taking ceremony.

United Progressive Alliance chairperson and senior Congress leader Sonia Gandhi will attend Prime Minister Narendra Modi's swearing-in ceremony on Thursday. Congress leader Anand Sharma will accompany Sonia Gandhi at the oath-taking.

Rahul Gandhi's dog Pidi gained fame on Twitter in 2017 after Gandhi posted a video of his pet, which was meant to be a sarcastic hit back at detractors who suggested that someone else was tweeting for the Congress vice president.  

A mood of despair prevails in the Congress headquarters at 24 Akbar Road. More than anything else, it is Rahul Gandhi's inner circle, an elite coterie of outsiders, which is being silently opposed by the rank and file of the party.

The Rajasthan Pradesh Congress Committee will meet today at party headquarters. The meeting will be presided by Sachin Pilot in which AICC general secretary Avinash Pandey and Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot will also be present.

With the popularity of Prime Minister Modi and the Bharatiya Janata Party skyrocketing, and Congress party not doing their cause any good by adding only 8 seats to their lowest ever tally in 2014, One can be forgiven to question the Congress top leadership.

Party sources say Rahul Gandhi was instrumental in making Pilot as the state Congress chief in 2014. After the Assembly polls late last year, Pilot was made Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot's deputy. With Congress chief himself mulling over his resignation, Pilot's future hangs in the balance, sources said. 

Congress President Rahul Gandhi is learnt to have told leaders at the Congress Working Committee meeting on Saturday that he was ready to carry the ideological battle against the BJP-RSS but does not want to be bogged down by routine matters and they should chose a new party chief from outside the Nehru-Gandhi family.

Led by Rahul's sister Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, a host of party leaders met the angry and sulking Congress President at his residence through the day, amid reports that he had conveyed to them that he could at best lead the party in Parliament as the chief of Congress Parliamentary Party (CPP).

A court here has asked Congress chief Rahul Gandhi to appear before it in connection with criminal defamation suits filed against him by the Ahmedabad District Cooperative Bank and its chairman Ajay Patel.  

Ekta Kapoor and her newborn Ravie Kapoor joined Smriti Irani on her barefoot walk to Siddhi Vinayak Temple in Mumbai. 

In his view, the Gandhi-Nehru family will continue to command "great clout and respect" within the party, on the basis of the tremendous contributions it has made in shaping and guiding the party since Independence.

Randeep Singh Surjewala also met Rahul Gandhi at the latter's residence. Gehlot arrived after Pilot had left. Details of their discussions were not immediately known.

Taking responsibility for the defeat, Gandhi on Saturday offered to resign as party president at a meeting of the Congress Working Committee (CWC), the highest decision-making body of the party, but it was "unanimously rejected".

After expressing his anger over party leaders giving preference to their families instead of the party, Congress President Rahul Gandhi on Monday refused to meet Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot here.

After election rout, the Congress party is heading towards massive restructuring and organisational overhaul to bring about radical changes. Congress President Rahul Gandhi has been authorised to ensure that this future course of action falls into place.