Rahul Gandhi

Celebrations by Delhi Congress workers and members of the Youth Congress marked the 43rd birthday celebrations of party vice president Rahul Gandhi, who wanted it to be a low key affair, party sources said Wednesday.

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Monday expressed his readiness to make way for Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi and hoped he would be the leader of the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) in the future.

A day after the Congress touted its most youthful team of office bearers with an average age of 52 years, the UPA-II Monday inducted eight new ministers, most of them in the 65-plus age group.

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Monday inducted eight veterans into the union council of ministers, evidently with an eye to state assembly elections this year-end, but the exercise was seen as lacklustre with no new or young faces and a preponderance of senior citizens.

The Congress Sunday effected a major organisational reshuffle that seemingly had party vice chief Rahul Gandhi's stamp, naming former ministers like Ambika Soni, Ajay Maken, C.P. Joshi and Gurudas Kamat as general secretaries and several younger leaders as secretaries.

The stamp of Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi was evident in the Congress organizational reshuffle announced Sunday, as important posts went to relatively younger MPs.

The stamp of Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi was evident in the All India Congress Committee reshuffle announced Sunday, as important posts went to relatively younger MPs.

The Congress Sunday effected a major organisational reshuffle geared towards the 2014 Lok Sabha polls, inducting former union ministers including Ambika Soni, Ajay Maken, C.P. Joshi and Gurudas Kamat as general secretaries and appointing several young leaders as secretaries.

Badgam (Jammu and Kashmir), June 15 (IANS) Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi said Saturday that the elevation of Narendra Modi as the election campaign chief of the BJP did not concern him.

Badgam (Jammu and Kashmir), June 15 (IANS) Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi said Saturday that India should address the Kashmir problem as an internal issue instead of bothering who rules Pakistan.