Rahul Gandhi Meets P Chidambaram

Congress leaders Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi Vadra met party colleague and former Finance Minister P Chidambaram in Tihar jail in Delhi this morning, hours before the Supreme Court hears his bail petition in the INX media corruption case.

Former Congress chief Rahul Gandhi and general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra would visit former Finance Minister P Chidambaram in Tihar jail on Wednesday morning, party leaders said.

BJP leader Nirmala Sitharaman's offensive against the Congress for a reported comment by party chief Rahul Gandhi at a meeting with Muslim intellectuals has drawn a strong rebuttal from his party. The Congress says the defence minister had relied on an incorrect news item in a vernacular newspaper to attack the party to polarise the 2019 election.

Faced with internal rebellion from a section of party leaders, TNCC President E V K S Elangovan dismissed the charge that he was not taking party leaders along with him and said he would be meeting the Congress President today.

The brewing dissent against Tamil Nadu Congress Committee (TNCC) president EVKS Elangovan came to the fore today with a delegation of senior party leaders from the state, including former Union finance minister P Chidambaram, meeting Congress president Sonia Gandhi and seeking his replacement.

With a veteran leader quitting the Congress in Tamil Nadu and others criticising the "high command culture", Sonia and Rahul Gandhi met with senior Congressmen from the state this evening including P Chidambaram.

The government will have to rein in spending and cut subsidies to meet its fiscal deficit target, the country's finance minister said today, underlining that an austerity drive will not be blown off course by an election due next year.

Congress leaders Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi Vadra met party colleague and former Finance Minister P Chidambaram in Tihar jail in Delhi this morning, hours before the Supreme Court hears his bail petition in the INX media corruption case.

Former Congress chief Rahul Gandhi and general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra would visit former Finance Minister P Chidambaram in Tihar jail on Wednesday morning, party leaders said.

BJP leader Nirmala Sitharaman's offensive against the Congress for a reported comment by party chief Rahul Gandhi at a meeting with Muslim intellectuals has drawn a strong rebuttal from his party. The Congress says the defence minister had relied on an incorrect news item in a vernacular newspaper to attack the party to polarise the 2019 election.

Faced with internal rebellion from a section of party leaders, TNCC President E V K S Elangovan dismissed the charge that he was not taking party leaders along with him and said he would be meeting the Congress President today.

The brewing dissent against Tamil Nadu Congress Committee (TNCC) president EVKS Elangovan came to the fore today with a delegation of senior party leaders from the state, including former Union finance minister P Chidambaram, meeting Congress president Sonia Gandhi and seeking his replacement.

With a veteran leader quitting the Congress in Tamil Nadu and others criticising the "high command culture", Sonia and Rahul Gandhi met with senior Congressmen from the state this evening including P Chidambaram.

The government will have to rein in spending and cut subsidies to meet its fiscal deficit target, the country's finance minister said today, underlining that an austerity drive will not be blown off course by an election due next year.