Wikileaks On Rahul Gandhi

• The man who would be PM set to become India's new president

  Sonia's son, Rahul, is a leading contender to become prime minister in any new Congress-led coalition.

• 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.

• 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...

• 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'...

• 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 ...