Amethi Land

A case has been registered against a local BJP leader for selling a piece of land to police for the construction of the Police Lines for Rs 2 crore with the help of forged documents, while he had already taken a loan of Rs 78 lakh against it.

Union minister Smriti Irani has bought a plot of land in Amethi, Uttar Pradesh, to build a house and said no MP from Amethi has ever made the constituency their home.

A woman and her daughter set themselves on fire on a road in Uttar Pradesh's capital Lucknow that has the state assembly and one of the offices of the Chief Minister facing each other, on Friday evening. The women set themselves on fire allegedly over police inaction in a case in Uttar Pradesh's Amethi district.

A two-seater aircraft at a state-run flying training institute in Uttar Pradesh's Amethi caught fire after an uncontrolled landing on Monday, officials said. The pilot, however, managed to eject safely.

Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, Congress General Secretary (East), spent a night at a Mirzapur UP state guest house as she refused to furnish a bail bond for trying to breach peace in the area. This followed day-long dharna in Mirzapur after she was stopped from visiting the village in Sonbhadra where ten tribals were shot dead two days ago in a land disput...

As Congress chief Rahul Gandhi filed his nomination from Amethi today, Congress General Secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra called her father Rajiv Gandhi's karmabhoomi "sacred land". Rajiv Gandhi had held the Amethi seat for a decade until his death in 1991.

Rahul Gandhi today filed documents to contest the national election from Kerala's Wayanad. He landed there by a helicopter this morning, along with his sister Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, and headed to the district collectorate office in Kalpetta.

Farmers staged a protest and raised slogans against Congress president Rahul Gandhi in his parliamentary constituency Amethi in Uttar Pradesh. The farmers protested in Gauriganj town in Amethi district on Wednesday demanding that either their land that was given to Rajiv Gandhi Foundation should be returned or they are provided employment.

Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi today met farmers from Amethi whose land had been acquired for widening a national highway and assured them of all possible help in resolving their problems, party leaders said.

Union Minister Smriti Irani has challenged Rahul Gandhi to send her to jail, vowing to continue her attacks on the Congress Vice President and his party.

The Congress today rejected as "half-truths and lies" allegations by Union Minister Smriti Irani about 65 acres of land having been taken away from Amethi residents during the 1980s for a cycle factory and transferred to the Rajiv Gandhi Charitable Trust. The party sought apology from the BJP.

A revenue court today ordered the return of the land sold to Rajiv Gandhi Charitable Trust by an industrial house to Uttar Pradesh State Industrial Development Corporation (UPSIDC).

A plot of land in Amethi that is at the centre of a row between BJP and Congress was "illegally" transferred in the name of a bicycle company that had taken it on lease from UP government and later sold to a trust owned by the Gandhi family, a senior official said on Monday.

Congress activists today launched a programme named 'Zameen ki ladai zameen par' (the dispute of land over the ground) in Amethi with a view to awaken people of the village against the alleged anti-social and anti-people policies of state and Central government.

Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi will undertake a two-day visit to his parliamentary constituency Amethi on August 18.

A case has been registered against a local BJP leader for selling a piece of land to police for the construction of the Police Lines for Rs 2 crore with the help of forged documents, while he had already taken a loan of Rs 78 lakh against it.

Union minister Smriti Irani has bought a plot of land in Amethi, Uttar Pradesh, to build a house and said no MP from Amethi has ever made the constituency their home.

A woman and her daughter set themselves on fire on a road in Uttar Pradesh's capital Lucknow that has the state assembly and one of the offices of the Chief Minister facing each other, on Friday evening. The women set themselves on fire allegedly over police inaction in a case in Uttar Pradesh's Amethi district.

A two-seater aircraft at a state-run flying training institute in Uttar Pradesh's Amethi caught fire after an uncontrolled landing on Monday, officials said. The pilot, however, managed to eject safely.

Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, Congress General Secretary (East), spent a night at a Mirzapur UP state guest house as she refused to furnish a bail bond for trying to breach peace in the area. This followed day-long dharna in Mirzapur after she was stopped from visiting the village in Sonbhadra where ten tribals were shot dead two days ago in a land disput...

As Congress chief Rahul Gandhi filed his nomination from Amethi today, Congress General Secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra called her father Rajiv Gandhi's karmabhoomi "sacred land". Rajiv Gandhi had held the Amethi seat for a decade until his death in 1991.

Rahul Gandhi today filed documents to contest the national election from Kerala's Wayanad. He landed there by a helicopter this morning, along with his sister Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, and headed to the district collectorate office in Kalpetta.

Farmers staged a protest and raised slogans against Congress president Rahul Gandhi in his parliamentary constituency Amethi in Uttar Pradesh. The farmers protested in Gauriganj town in Amethi district on Wednesday demanding that either their land that was given to Rajiv Gandhi Foundation should be returned or they are provided employment.

Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi today met farmers from Amethi whose land had been acquired for widening a national highway and assured them of all possible help in resolving their problems, party leaders said.

Union Minister Smriti Irani has challenged Rahul Gandhi to send her to jail, vowing to continue her attacks on the Congress Vice President and his party.

The Congress today rejected as "half-truths and lies" allegations by Union Minister Smriti Irani about 65 acres of land having been taken away from Amethi residents during the 1980s for a cycle factory and transferred to the Rajiv Gandhi Charitable Trust. The party sought apology from the BJP.

A revenue court today ordered the return of the land sold to Rajiv Gandhi Charitable Trust by an industrial house to Uttar Pradesh State Industrial Development Corporation (UPSIDC).

A plot of land in Amethi that is at the centre of a row between BJP and Congress was "illegally" transferred in the name of a bicycle company that had taken it on lease from UP government and later sold to a trust owned by the Gandhi family, a senior official said on Monday.

Congress activists today launched a programme named 'Zameen ki ladai zameen par' (the dispute of land over the ground) in Amethi with a view to awaken people of the village against the alleged anti-social and anti-people policies of state and Central government.

Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi will undertake a two-day visit to his parliamentary constituency Amethi on August 18.