Wikileaks Rahul Gandhi

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  Citing WikiLeaks, BJP Says Rahul Gandhi Defamed Hindus, Demands Apology

  Congress chief Rahul Gandhi and his mother Sonia Gandhi should apologise for "defaming Hindus globally", the BJP said a day after five persons, including Swami Aseemanand, a saffron-robed monk, were acquitted in an 11-year-old terror case.

• WikiLeaks: How Sanjay Gandhi positioned himself for India's 'top job'

  A cable sent by US diplomats who recorded how Sanjay Gandhi "abandoned back corridor politics to step into the public limelight" may seem prescient for those who are cynical of the recent anointment of Rahul Gandhi as Vice-President of the Congress at the party's Jaipur conclave this year.

• 1970s US cable also referred to Indira Gandhi's Congress as beehive

  Congress Vice-president Rahul Gandhi's analogy last week to India as a beehive created much buzz. Critics said they were baffled by the comparison, supporters said the 43-year-old had made a deft illustration of a country brimming with energy and activity.

• WikiLeaks cable on Rahul Gandhi

  After the general election in 2009, a cable sent by the US embassy in Delhi offered lavish praise for Congress leader Rahul Gandhi.

• WikiLeaks: First, Rahul was 'empty suit,' then he won lavish praise

  After the general election in 2009, a cable sent by the US embassy in Delhi offered lavish praise for Congress leader Rahul Gandhi. The American assessment said that "Gandhi came off as a practiced politician who knew how to get his message across and was comfortable with the nuts and bolts of party organization and vote counting. He was precis...

• Congress plenary: Focus on right-wing radicalism

  On Day 2 of the Congress plenary, which marks 125 years of the party, the main agenda is an offensive on RSS-terror links. The Congress resolution is expected to ask the government to investigate RSS-terror links, two days after a huge controversy broke out with WikiLeaks revelations that Rahul Gandhi had spoken to US envoy Tim Roemer about Hindu t...

• North-East terror not a priority for Govt: WikiLeaks

  A day after whistle-blowing website WikiLeaks posted secret cables about talks between Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi and US Ambassador Timothy Roemer on terrorism, there are some more uncomfortable revelations.According to a diplomatic cable sent by the US embassy in April 2006, terror in the Northeast was not a priority for the Governmen...

• US diplomats in India just doing their job: State Department

  Denying that Washington was interfering in India's internal affairs as alleged by the CPM, the US has said that American diplomats do in India what Indian diplomats do in the US.While declining to address the substance of India related WikiLeaks cables, State Department spokesman P J Crowley told reporters on Friday, "We are building a strategic pa...

• Rahul Gandhi responds to WikiLeaks controversy on Hindu extremism remarks

  Rahul Gandhi has reacted to the WikiLeaks controversy over his alleged remarks that Hindu extremism is a bigger threat to India than the Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT).As the BJP attacked Gandhi for the comments that US Ambassador Timothy Roemer wrote about in a cable dated August 2009, the Congress issued this statement early this afternoon: "Rahul Gandhi'...

• Furious BJP targets Rahul over WikiLeaks expose

  A WikiLeaks cable on Rahul Gandhi has provoked a fiery political conspiracy.  The cable states that Gandhi told the US Ambassador to India that Hindu extremism is a bigger threat to India than the Lashkar-e-Toiba. The BJP has reacted with anger, accusing Gandhi of weakening India's war against terror with his remarks."He has little understandi...

• WikiLeaks: Controversy over Rahul's Hindu extremism remarks

  A WikiLeaks cable on Rahul Gandhi has provoked a fiery political conspiracy.  The cable states that Gandhi told the US Ambassador to India that Hindu extremism is a bigger threat to India than the Lashkar-e-Taiba. The BJP has reacted with anger, accusing Gandhi of weakening India's war against terror with his remarks.In a cable dated August 20...

• WikiLeaks on Rahul: Congress suspects conspiracy

  Congress today suspected a conspiracy behind the release of WikiLeaks cable which says Rahul Gandhi had told US ambassador Timothy Roemer that growth of "radicalised Hindu groups" could pose a bigger threat to India than activities of groups like Lashkar-e-Taiba."Let us verify the truth. May be there is some conspiracy behind the pattern with which...

• WikiLeaks: Rahul becoming increasingly sure-footed, said US cable in February

  Citing Rahul Gandhi's move to take on Shiv Sena's "xenophobic agenda," a secret memo fromthe US embassy in New Delhi in February 2010 said the young Congress leader appears to be becoming increasingly 'sure-footed' in his political instincts.The secret cable released by WikiLeaks is dated February 22, 2010 and is a diary of the political events in ...

• WikiLeaks: Controversy over Rahul's Hindu extremism remarks

  In the latest WikiLeaks expose, a cable from US Ambassador to India, Tim Roemer, quotes Congress leader Rahul Gandhi as telling him that Hindu extremism is a bigger threat than  Lashkar militants.  It could could spark off a political storm and prompt the BJP to hit out at Rahul. In the cable dated August 3 2009, Roemer quotes Rahul ...