“You can abuse me, you can call me Pappu, but I don’t have a speck of hatred against you. I will take out this hatred out of you and turn it into love,” Rahul said as he rushed to hug the prime minister.

The Narendra Modi govt on Friday comfortably won the no-confidence motion moved by TDP and other opposition parties in the Lok Sabha.

Modi, who is expected to comfortably sail through the trust vote, also hoped for a constructive and disruption free debate.

The Bharatiya Janata Party's move to pass 'The Right to Information (Amendment) Bill, 2018' "must be opposed by every Indian," Rahul said.  

A day after he broke his silence over 'Muslim party' row asserting that he stands with 'exploited, marginalised and the persecuted', Rahul Gandhi posted a 'pop quiz' which apparently targeted PM Modi.

Gandhi, in his letter, expressed solidarity against Jammu and Kashmir government's decision to initiate inquiry for expressing his opinion on the rising incidents of rapes in India.

The first meeting of the new CWC will be held on July 22. This the first CWC formed by the Congress chief after assuming charge of the party.

"The government would like to understand fully the reasons why the bill was not taken up for three years by the UPA government in the Lok Sabha and allowed to lapse," the letter read.

He said when Gandhi says that Congress is the party of the Muslims, it is a breach of trust of the "last person in the last queue with whom Rahul Gandhi claims to be standing with".

BJP leaders believe that a political narrative imbued with its Hindutva agenda will suit the party as it battles anti-incumbency in poll-bound states of Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh and gears up for the next Lok Sabha elections 2019.

An Urdu daily had quoted Rahul Gandhi as saying that Congress is a party of Muslims.

A war of words had erupted over an Urdu daily's report that Rahul, during an interaction with Muslim intellectual last week, had told them that Congress was a party for Muslims.

Jai Prakash Singh, speaking during an event, had described Rahul Gandhi unfit for PM's chair due to his mother Sonia Gandhi's foreign origin.

The Congress has denied as false and baseless the remark published recently in an Urdu daily while its minority department head Nadeem Javed, who was quoted as saying that its president described the Congress as being a 'Muslim party', also denied having said so and claimed he was being "misquoted".

Meanwhile, a combative BJP questioned Rahul Gandhi's "silence" over his reported remarks that the Congress is "a Muslim party".

"I write to request (for) your support to ensure the passage of the Women's Reservation Bill in the coming monsoon session," Rahul Gandhi said.

The BJP in a strong statement, questioned Rahul Gandhi over why wasn't he responding to the questin by PM Modi on whether his party stood only for Muslim men and not Muslim women.

Just a few months before Madhya Pradesh Assembly polls, Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan on Saturday began his "Jan Ashirwad Yatra" from the holy city of Ujjain.

The web series courted controversy after a Congress worker filed a complaint in Kolkata against the streaming platform, actor Nawazuddin Siddiqui and the producers for using an ‘objectionable word’ to describe late prime minister Rajiv Gandhi.

Lauding UP Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, PM Modi said that he is an able administrator who has made immense contribution to the development of the state.