Everything you need to know about Amethi: news, reviews, in-depth analysis, opinion and more
Everything you need to know about Amethi: news, reviews, in-depth analysis, opinion and more
Lucknow, May 15 (ANI): The Uttar Pradesh Government has decided to challenge a Pilibhit court's order that acquited Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Varun Gandhi in two hate speech cases and one vandalism case.
Lucknow, May 8 (IANS) Five people died in Amethi after consuming illicit liquor, police said Wednesday. Three people, including the liquor supplier, were arrested.
Amethi (Uttar Pradesh), May 8 (ANI): At least five people died in Amethi after consuming adulterated liquor.
Lucknow, April 13 (IANS) Pushed on the backfoot after "strong political reactions" from New Delhi, the Uttar Pradesh government Friday restored 24x7 power supply to Rae Bareli and Amethi - parliamentary constituencies of Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi.
Lucknow, April 12 (IANS) Uttar Pradesh has ended 24x7 power supply to Amethi and Rae Bareli, represented in parliament by Rahul Gandhi and Sonia Gandhi, indicating a rift between the Samajwadi Party and the Congress.
Lucknow, April 12 (IANS) In a move suggesting growing differences between the Congress and the Samajwadi Party (SP), the Uttar Pradesh Power Corporation Limited (UPPCL) has withdrawn the 'VIP' status of Raebareli and Amethi with regard to 24x7 power supply.
Amethi, Feb. 8 (ANI): Taking potshots at the Akhilesh Yadav-led Samajwadi Party (SP) Government for the lack of development, Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi on Friday said the farmers and youth were unhappy as they were not getting the benefits of central schemes.
Amethi, Feb. 7 (ANI): Rahul Gandhi, who made his first public appearance in his parliamentary constituency Amethi today after becoming the vice-president of the Congress Party, said that the youth of the country need to be employed properly.
Amethi, Feb. 7 (ANI): Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi will undertake a two-day tour of his parliamentary constituency Amethi beginning today.
Lucknow/New Delhi, Feb 5 (IANS) With the rainy weather showing no signs of abating, Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) president Rajnath Singh postponed their trips to Uttar Pradesh Tuesday, party leaders said.
Amethi, Feb. 5 (ANI): Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi, who was scheduled to undertake a two-day tour of his parliamentary constituency Amethi today, postponed his visit due to bad weather conditions.
Amethi, Feb. 5 (ANI): Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi, who was scheduled to undertake a two-day tour of his parliamentary constituency Amethi today, postponed his visit due to bad weather conditions.
Lucknow, Feb 5 (IANS) Incessant rain brought back the winter chill in most parts of Uttar Pradesh Tuesday. The weather department predicted more showers in the next two days.
Lucknow, Feb 2 (IANS) Rahul Gandhi will visit Amethi Feb 5, his first trip to his constituency after being elevated as Congress vice president, an official said Saturday.
Lucknow, Dec 7 (IANS) Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi Friday said he shared an emotional bond with the people of his parliamentary constituency as he asked party workers to begin work for the 2014 Lok Sabha polls and propagate the UPA's good work and people-friendly schemes.
New Delhi, Nov. 25 (ANI): India Against Corruption (IAC) turned Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) on Sunday took a jibe at Congress general secretary Digvijay Singh over his remarks against activist turned politician Arvind Kejriwal.
New Delhi, Nov 17 (IANS) Acting on Janata Party chief Subramanian Swamy's complaint, the Election Commission has asked Amethi's returning officer to probe allegations that Congress leader Rahul Gandhi gave wrong information about his assets while filing nomination papers in the 2009 polls.
Lucknow, Nov 16 (IANS) Known for his wrestling moves during his days in home village Saifai, Samajwadi Party (SP) chief Mulayam Singh Yadav pulled a similar one, albeit politically, on the Congress Friday as the party released its list of 55 candidates for the 2014 Lok Sabha elections.
Lucknow, Nov 16 (IANS) Known for his wrestling moves during his days in home village Saifai, Samajwadi Party (SP) chief Mulayam Singh Yadav pulled a similar one, albeit politically, on the Congress Friday as the party released its list of 55 candidates for the 2014 Lok Sabha elections.
Amethi, Nov 8 (IANS) Congress General Secretary Rahul Gandhi Thursday urged the people of Amethi, his parliamentary constituency, to "forget the past and move on".
Lucknow, Nov 8 (IANS) Congress president Sonia Gandhi, her son party general secretary Rahul Gandhi and daughter Priyanka Vadra were Thursday touring Uttar Pradesh's Amethi-Rae Bareli area, a rare gathering of the Gandhi family in what is seen as their pocket borough.
New Delhi, Oct 1 (IANS) The Supreme Court Monday reserved its order on a plea challenging an Allahabad High Court order imposing a cost of Rs.50 lakh and ordering a CBI probe against a former Samajwadi Party legislator who made an allegation of abduction and rape of a woman by Congress leader Rahul Gandhi.
Lucknow, Sep 21 (IANS) The Lucknow bench of the Allahabad High Court Friday struck down the notification of the then Mayawati government, changing the name of Amethi district to Chattrapati Shahuji Maharaj Nagar.
Lucknow, Sep 13 (IANS) Congress MP Rahul Gandhi faced hostile college girl students on the first day of his two-day visit to his parliamentary constituency Amethi Thursday.
New Delhi, Sep 12 (IANS) Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi will be in his Lok Sabha constituency Amethi in Uttar Pradesh over the next two days, his office informed Wednesday.
New Delhi, July 6 (IANS) Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi Friday urged the Supreme Court to dismiss a plea against an Allahabad High Court order absolving him of allegations that he detained and raped a girl in Uttar Pradesh.
After the major debacle of the Congress in the recently held Uttar Pradesh assembly election, party general secretary Rahul Gandhi visited to Amethi to
Lucknow, Apr 30 (ANI): Congress General Secretary Rahul Gandhi arrived here on Monday to take part in a post- Assembly poll review.
Amethi (Uttar Pradesh), April 30 (IANS) Hoping to 're-motivate' party workers in his parliamentary constituency, Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi arrived here Monday on a three-day visit, his first after the party's defeat in the state assembly elections.
Mumbai/Lucknow, April 26 (IANS) In his first major political engagements outside the national capital after the recent assembly polls, Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi will visit Maharashtra this week and his parliamentary constituency Amethi in Uttar Pradesh later this month.
Lucknow, April 26 (IANS) Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi would be in his Amethi parliamentary constituency in Uttar Pradesh from April 30-May 2. This would be his first visit to the state after the party's drubbing in the assembly polls, party sources said Wednesday.
Amethi, Feb 16 (ANI): Priyanka Gandhi, the star campaigner for the Congress in Uttar Pradesh, on Thursday expressed hope of the party winning all seats from their family bastion, Amethi, in the ongoing state assembly polls.
Allahabad/Amethi, Feb 15 (ANI): Voters, who exercised their rights in the ongoing third phase of the Uttar Pradesh assembly polls on Wednesday appeared to be very excited, and said that they used their right to vote to ensure that a strong and corruption free government is formed in the state.
Varanasi, Feb 12 (ANI): Senior Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Sushma Swaraj on Sunday asked the Prime Minister, Dr. Manmohan Singh, to dismiss Salman Khurshid after the Election Commission complained to President Pratibha Devisingh Patil against the Law Minister for his repeated efforts to woo Muslims with job quotas during the campaign for the ongoing Uttar Pradesh assembly polls.waraj said appropriate step must be taken to rest the controversy.
Varanasi, Feb 12 (ANI): Senior Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Sushma Swaraj on Sunday asked the Prime Minister, Dr. Manmohan Singh, to dismiss Salman Khurshid after the Election Commission complained to President Pratibha Devisingh Patil against the Law Minister for his repeated efforts to woo Muslims with job quotas during the campaign for the ongoing Uttar Pradesh assembly polls.waraj said appropriate step must be taken to rest the controversy.
Rae Bareli (Uttar Pradesh): Robert Vadra, the brother-in-law of Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi, on Monday said he would consider joining active politics if he thought he could make a difference to peoples' lives.
Amethi (Uttar Pradesh), Feb.6 (ANI): Priyanka Gandhi's husband Robert Vadra was stopped by an election observer in the Salon area of Uttar Pradesh's Amethi District for violating the Election Commission's model code of conduct.
Rae Bareli (Uttar Pradesh): Robert Vadra, the brother-in-law of Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi, on Monday said he would consider joining active politics if he thought he could make a difference to peoples' lives.
Amethi (Uttar Pradesh), Feb.6 (ANI): Priyanka Gandhi's husband Robert Vadra was stopped by an election observer in the Salon area of Uttar Pradesh's Amethi District for violating the Election Commission's model code of conduct.
New Delhi, Jan 17 (ANI): Congress leader Abhishek Manu Singhvi on Tuesday said Priyanka Gandhi had every right to campaign for her brother Rahul Gandhi in poll-bound Uttar Pradesh.
Amethi, Jan 17 (ANI): Congress General Secretary Rahul Gandhi's sister Priyanka Gandhi on Tuesday said she will do anything to help her brother in the upcoming assembly elections.
Amethi, Jan 16 (ANI): In an endeavor to reach out to the voters ahead of the upcoming state assembly polls, Priyanka Gandhi today began her tour of Congress strongholds Amethi and Rae Bareli in poll-bound Uttar Pradesh.
Amethi, Jan 16 (ANI): In an endeavor to reach out to the voters ahead of the upcoming state assembly polls, Priyanka Gandhi today began her tour of Congress strongholds Amethi and Rae Bareli in poll-bound Uttar Pradesh.
Amethi (Uttar Pradesh), Dec 21 (ANI): Asserting that every citizen of the country wanted the lawmakers, judiciary and bureaucracy to come under the Lokpal Bill ambit, social activist Medha Patkar on Wednesday urged the Congress-led United Progressive Alliance (UPA) Government at the Centre to bring a strong and effective anti-graft bill to curb the rampant corruption in the country.
New Delhi, Nov. 11 (ANI): Congress General Secretary Digvijay Singh on Friday rubbished spiritual guru Sri Sri Ravi Shankar's claims that his visit to Rahul Gandhi's parliamentary constituency of Amethi was cancelled due to political pressure from Delhi, and said he is free to go anywhere he wishes in the country.
Amethi, Oct 3 (ANI): Supporters of India's anti-corruption crusader Anna Hazare has started a fresh campaign by targeting Congress General Secretary Rahul Gandhi constituencies in Amethi to garner support for the passage of the Jan Lokpal Bill.
Lucknow, June 17 (ANI): Congress Party workers in Uttar Pradesh are celebrating Rahul Gandhi's birthday as Kisan Adhikar Diwas (Farmers' Rights Day). ith Assembly polls in Uttar Pradesh due early next year, Gandhi's 41st birthday is being utilised by the state unit to reach out to farmers.
Amethi, June 18(ANI): The trust of former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi has re-purchased an old cycle manufacturing company in Amethi, Uttar Pradesh, for 116 million rupees.
Jagdishpur, Apr 12 (ANI): At least twelve people were killed and 32 others injured when a vehicle rammed into a tree in Jagdishpur area of Chhatrapati Shahuji Maharaj Nagar, Amethi last night.
Amethi, Feb 10 (ANI): Congress General Secretary Rahul Gandhi has slammed Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati for the deteriorating law and order condition of the state and raised questions about the safety and security of women in Amethi.
Amethi (Uttar Pradesh), Sep 3 (ANI): Congress General Secretary Rahul Gandhi organized a 'Janta Darbar', or people's courtroom here on Friday to address grievances of the locals in the region.
Amethi, Sep 3 (ANI): Congress General Secretary Rahul Gandhi who is on a three-day visit to his Amethi constituency, expressed his anger with the local police for not investigating a murder case properly.
Amethi (Uttar Pradesh), Sep 3 (ANI): Congress General Secretary Rahul Gandhi has launched 3G services in his parliamentary constituency of Amethi.
Amethi (Uttar Pradesh), Sep 2 (ANI): Congress General Secretary Rahul Gandhi launched a mass plantation drive to enhance productivity of his constituency during his three-day visit to Amethi.
Amethi/Lucknow, July 2 (ANI): Congress party lawmakers on Thursday criticized a move by Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati to create a new district out of the Amethi constituency, and renaming it Chhatrapati Shahuji Maharaj Nagar.
New Delhi, June 19 (ANI): Congress General Secretary and Amethi MP Rahul Gandhi turned 40 on Saturday.
Lucknow, Mar.28 (ANI): Following a Lucknow bench of the Allahabad High Court order to the Uttar Pradesh Government to reconsider its earlier decision to carve out a brand new district of Chhatrapati Sahuji Maharaj Nagar out of Rae Bareli and Sultanpur, Chief Minister Mayawati is likely to take her fight against Congress AICC General Secretary Rahul Gandhi to a new level by renaming his parliamentary bastion Amethi.
Jais (UP), Mar 28 (ANI): Congress General Secretary Rahul Gandhi stopped at Amethi roadside joint to relish a 'samosa' on Saturday.
Amethi (Uttar Pradesh), Mar 27 (ANI): Congress General Secretary Rahul Gandhi visited his parliamentary constituency Amethi to take stock of ongoing development programmes.
Amethi (Uttar Pradesh), Feb 18 (ANI): An Uttar Pradesh policeman was on Thursday suspended after being caught on camera for thrashing a Dalit woman inside the police station in an attempt to extract a confession from her.
Munshiganj/ Jayas/ Jagdishpur (UP), Dec 24 (ANI): Congress General Secretary Rahul Gandhi had a busy schedule on the second and last day of his visit to his parliamentary constituency Amethi on Wednesday.
Jayas (Uttar Pradesh), Dec 23 (ANI): Congress General Secretary Rahul Gandhi visited a school in the Jayas area of Amethi on Tuesday.
Amethi, Nov 20 (ANI): Congress General Secretary Rahul Gandhi said here on Friday that more women should be associated with self help groups working in rural areas to make them financially strong.
Amethi, Nov 20 (ANI): Congress General Secretary Rahul Gandhi and his sister Priyanka have begun their two - day visit of Amethi constituency.
Jagdishpur (Uttar Pradesh), Aug.17 (ANI): Congress General secretary Rahul Gandhi on Monday blamed the Uttar Pradesh government for creating hurdles in the development of his parliamentary constituency, Amethi.
Amethi, Aug 17 (ANI): Congress General Secretary Rahul Gandhi will arrive here today on a three-day visit.
Amethi, Aug 13 (ANI): Congress General Secretary Rahul Gandhi will visit Amethi from August 17.
Amethi, July 17 (ANI): Congress General Secretary Rahul Gandhi will arrive here today to interact with the people of the constituency who have been suffering from shortage of power supply.
New Delhi, July 16 (ANI): Congress General Secretary Rahul Gandhi will visit Amethi on Friday to interact with the people of the constituency who have been suffering from shortage of power supply.
Lucknow, May 16 (IANS) The dramatic comeback of the Congress in Uttar Pradesh was not foreseen even by its own leadership.
Lucknow, May 16 (IANS) Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi was Saturday leading over his rivals in Amethi constituency in Uttar Pradesh, officials counting votes polled in the Lok Sabha election said.
Rae Bareli, April 28 (IANS) Indians have a habit of complaining instead of striving for a better future, Priyanka Gandhi, the daughter of Congress president Sonia Gandhi, observed Tuesday.
Rae Bareli (Uttar Pradesh), April 25 (IANS) Three days after the voting percentage disappointed the Congress in Amethi, party chief Sonia Gandhi Saturday came to her citadel in Rae Bareli and asked people to turn out in large numbers next week.
Rae Bareli, April 24 (IANS) Priyanka Gandhi Friday said she was shocked by the low voter turn out in Amethi, her brother Rahul Gandhi's constituency in Uttar Pradesh.
Lucknow, April 23 (IANS) The second phase of polling in 17 constituencies of Uttar Pradesh ended Thursday with 44 percent voter turnout, state Election Commission officials said here.
Lucknow, April 23 (IANS) About 26 percent of 25 million-odd eligible voters cast their ballot in 17 constituencies of Uttar Pradesh till 2 p.m., election officials said here Thursday.
Lucknow, April 23 (IANS) About 14.5 percent of the 25 million-odd Uttar Pradesh voters eligible to vote Thursday exercised their franchise in 17 Lok Sabha constituencies till noon, election officials said here.
Amethi (Uttar Pradesh), April 23 (IANS) Uttar Pradesh's most high profile parliamentary constituency Amethi, the pocket borough of Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi, sprung a big surprise by registering a poor turnout of voters in the initial hours of polling Thursday.
Lucknow, April 23 (IANS) Polling for the second of the five-phase Lok Sabha election began in Uttar Pradesh Thursday morning.
Lucknow, April 22 (IANS) Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi's electoral fate will be decided in the second phase of the country's 2009 general elections Thursday.
Allahabad/ Amethi, Apr 22 (ANI): Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi has ridiculed the Bharatiya Janata Party's 'India Shining' campaign during the last election, saying it shone only in the houses of the rich.
Amethi, April 21 (IANS) Congress president Sonia Gandhi's daughter Priyanka Gandhi Tuesday said that India cannot forgive LTTE chief Velupillai Prabhakaran for her father's assassination in 1991, but she personally does not hate him.
Amethi (Uttar Pradesh), Apr.21 (ANI): Priyanka Vadra, the daughter of UPA chairperson and Congress president Sonia Gandhi, has said that the Left needs to have a rethink on some of its regressive and anti-development policies if it is desirous of taking Indian forward in the new millenium.
Amethi, Apr 20 (ANI): Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, the daughter of Congress President Sonia Gandhi, on Monday defended the Congress' decision to go alone in Uttar Pradesh in ongoing general elections.
Amethi (Uttar Pradesh), April 20 (IANS) Working up the crowds, addressing half a dozen public meetings, Priyanka Gandhi Monday campaigned here for her brother and Congress candidate Rahul Gandhi, but said she herself was keeping off active politics of her own volition.
Amethi, Apr 18 (ANI): Congress General Secretary Rahul Gandhi on Saturday criticized Mayawati-led Uttar Pradesh Government for drifting Amethi and Rae Bareilly away from development.
Amethi (Uttar Pradesh), April 18 (IANS) Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi Saturday accused the Mayawati government in Uttar Pradesh of 'pushing back' development in the party strongholds of Amethi and Rae Bareli and said he would concentrate his efforts to bring the Congress back to power in the state.
Amethi (Uttar Pradesh), April 18 (IANS) Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi Saturday accused the Mayawati government in Uttar Pradesh of 'pushing back' development in the constituencies he and his mother Congress president Sonia Gandhi represented in parliament.
Lucknow, April 17 (IANS) Congress general secretary and sitting MP from Amethi Rahul Gandhi will visit his constituency in Uttar Pradesh Saturday for election campaign, a party official said Friday.
Lucknow, April 16 (IANS) Ranjan Choudhary left a plush office and well-paying corporate job in Australia to plunge into the heat and dust of the Indian political arena. The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) candidate from Uttar Pradesh's Mohanlalganj now wants other educated youths to do the same -- to 'change the political system'.
Barnala (Punjab), April 15 (IANS) He is a Gandhian, wants to be prime minister and has been taking on India's most politically powerful family for the last three decades with a wish to end dynastic rule. And now Mitt Singh Sehajara, 67, is back to doing what he loves - contesting against the Nehru-Gandhi clan.
New Delhi, April 14 (IANS) The National Democratic Alliance's (NDA) prime ministerial candidate L.K. Advani Tuesday lashed out at the Congress party, saying it had not done justice to Dalit icon B.R. Ambedkar. The Congress termed the accusation 'ridiculous'.
Lucknow, April 14 (IANS) Remarks by Akhilesh Das, Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) candidate from Lucknow for the Lok Sabha elections, against his Samajwadi Party rival Nafisa Ali have drawn flak from all quarters, including Priyanka Gandhi.
Amethi, April 14 (IANS) Over a dozen public meetings, a run of nearly 100 km in a BMW SUV, with only a common request to the voters of Amethi - 'Please vote for my brother'. That was how Priyanka Gandhi spent Tuesday as she criss-crossed the Uttar Pradesh constituency canvassing for votes for her brother, Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi.
Amethi, Apr 14 (ANI): Priyanka Gandhi on Tuesday exhorted people to vote for her brother Rahul Gandhi for the continuous growth of the area.
Baharampur, (West Bengal), April 13 (IANS) External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee Monday welcomed Priyanka Gandhi's comments that she was not averse to joining politics.
Amethi (Uttar Pradesh), April 13 (IANS) Countering Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi's comment that the Congress party was a 'budhiya' (old lady), Congress chief Sonia Gandhi's daughter Priyanka Gandhi said Modi and Bharatiya Janata Party's (BJP) prime ministerial candidate L.K. Advani have misconceptions about their age.
Amethi (Uttar Pradesh), April 12 (IANS) Priyanka Gandhi feels her brother Rahul has leadership skills and could be the prime minister of India 'one day' but maintains the present incumbent Manmohan Singh would adorn the post after the Lok Sabha elections.
Amethi (Uttar Pradesh), April 12 (IANS) Priyanka Gandhi says her brother Rahul Gandhi, a Congress general secretary, has requisite leadership skills to be the prime minister of India in future.
Amethi, Apr 12 (ANI): Priyanka Gandhi on Sunday gave some indications of possibility of her brother and Congress General Secretary Rahul Gandhi becoming Prime Minister one day.
