“Even children know that trees are critical to our survival and difficult to replace. Stand with the Congress and together let's fight this madness,” Gandhi said.

The Accidental Prime Minister: Arjun Mathur and Aahana Kumra are playing the roles of Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi respectively in the upcoming Anupam Kher film.

The ministry specified that as Prime Minister Modi is the most valuable target in the run-up to the 2019 general elections, there has been an ‘all-time high’ threat to him.

He also said that "dynastic" Congress under Gandhi was not good for democracy.

Taking a sharp dig at PM Modi's fitness video that he released a few days ago, Rahul Gandhi said that while the PM is busy in maintaining his health, safety of women continues to be a cause of worry.

In a statement, Congress spokesperson Randeep Singh Surjewala said Amit Shah had no business to lecture the Congress on nationalism and that the BJP would never be able to realise the hard work which the UPA did to usher peace in Jammu and Kashmir.

The Congress President was referring to the unique protest campaign started by the 30-year old idol maker Muktikanta Biswal.

 The veteran Congress leader termed Jaitley's remark as 'laughable and absurd' while asserting that his party has always 'stoutly opposed' Maoists and jehadists.

Interestingly Rahul Gandhi who took over as the president of the grand old party in December 2017, is seen by many as the PM candidate against Narendra Modi in the 2019 general elections.

On whether he would support the Congress in its endeavour to bring opposition parties together on one platform to defeat the BJP in the 2019 Lok Sabh polls, Haasan said, "It is to early to decide."

Rahul hit out at the government after Union Minister Arun Jaitley announced that Chief Economic Advisor Arvind Subramanian was leaving the Finance Ministry.

Kamal said that it was a 'formal courtesy meeting'.

Hitting back at the Congress leader for his remarks against BJP, Rijiju today claimed that while Saradar Vallabh Bhai Patel solved problems of all other states, Kashmir fell into trouble after Rahul Gandhi's grandfather Jawahar Lal Nehru took over. 

Rahul Gandhi had tweeted about the incident tagging the video, and blamed the BJP and RSS for rising atrocities against backward classes.

The three-year Jammu and Kashmir government, wracked by bitter political feuds and worsening security challenges, collapsed on Tuesday with the BJP pulling out of its alliance with the PDP setting the stage for yet another round of governor's rule.

Rahul Gandhi has openly attacked PM Modi in the past months particularly during his campaign for state Assembly elections in Gujarat and Karnataka.

While in both Uttrakhand and Madhya Pradesh, the incumbent government is BJP, the main opposition party remains Congress. In this scenario, an announcement to go solo by Samajwadi Party raises doubts about Akhilesh Yadav's intentions to maintain ties with Congress.

Jameel was shot at in Gorakhpur on Sunday night and is now admitted at the King George Medical University trauma centre in Lucknow.

Criticising the government, Rahul Gandhi said that the foreign policy of the country has become one about "photo ops" and "no agenda meetings".

"Did you see the PM's fitness video? It is ridiculous... I mean... It is bizarre... This is bankruptcy," Rahul Gandhi said as he poked fun at the video put out by the prime minister.