Smriti Irani  

Swamy made a sensational claim that Gandhi held four different passports and that his MPhil degree, not just showed that he had failed in one of the electives in the course, but also had the name of Raul Vinci. Swamy was obviously referring to the alleged Italian connections of the Congress scion.

Congress has chosen Kerala’s Wayanad seat for its president sensing several factors that are going against him in the Gandhi family bastion

Here is why choosing Wayanad as Plan B might just boomerang for Rahul Gandhi, who is likely to lose Amethi too, considering the drop in vote share over the years. 

Prime Minister Narendra Modi's dream project of opening a second NIFT campus in Varanasi has been blocked by the Uttar Pradesh government. The second campus will serve to promote Banarasi sarees and other handicrafts from eastern Uttar Pradesh globally

In her campaign in Kolar, Union minister for textiles Smriti Irani mocked the Kumaraswamy government for siding with corrupt contractors, staging a public protest and blaming the Central government

AICC president Rahul Gandhi will now contest from Amethi and Wayanad, confirmed the party. With the margin of victory against Smriti Irani in 2014 far less substantial than before, it looks like Amethi will be too close to call this time around

The Congress on Wednesday exposed its desperation again just days ahead of the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, when chief Rahul Gandhi and a host of other leaders could not digest the success of Mission Shakti that has put India in the super elite club of space powers

Haji Haroon Rasheed, son of Haji Sultan Khan who was the proposer in the nominations of Rajiv Gandhi and Sonia Gandhi, could part with a large number of Muslim votes, making Smriti Irani’s challenge to Rahul Gandhi Herculean.
 

After all the parties contesting in the 2019 elections have released their list of candidates, there are a few where the battle assumes more substantial importance. The sheer fact that the stakes are higher, the anticipation makes some battles more consequential than the others.

While there is no surprise in repeating Prime Minister Narendra Modi from Varanasi, Amit Shah replacing LK Advani in Gandhinagar is significant. Several ministers and sitting MPs have been renominated except in Chhattisgarh. Smriti Irani, who had in 2014 remarkably reduced Rahul Gandhi's victory margin when compared to his 2009 figures, if fighting the Congress president again in Amethi. Read on for the rest of the list.

A social media sentiments analysis done by MyNation along with Cybersecurity NGO Root64 foundation analyses trends of leading political leaders Narendra Modi, Rahul Gandhi, Arun Jaitley, Smriti Irani, Akhilesh Yadav, Mayawati and Priyanka Gandhi.

Congress spokesperson Pawan Khera remarks about PM Modi on a TV channel which was mocked by the audience.

Gandhi’s attack came a day after Modi accused Gandhi of "lying" and ignoring the ordnance factory in Amethi, and had a dig at him, saying the rifles manufactured at the unit will be known as "Made in Amethi"

 Smriti Irani said that religious practices should be "respected" and anyone breaching them just to 'make headlines' would do a great disservice to the country's diversity.