Sonia Gandhi follows the footsteps of Rajiv Gandhi

Congress President and UPA Chairperson Sonia Gandhi had recently launched the 'Ahimsa Messenger' Programme -- an initiative by the Centre to address the violence against women. We follow the visionary ideologies and ideas of late Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi, said Sonia Gandhi.

Sonia Gandhi always stressed for the need to put an end to violence against women

Sonia Gandhi, the Congress President and UPA Chairperson believed that just making laws would not prevent crimes. "We know that making laws and policies is not enough; but we also have to implement them at the grass-root levels. The most fundamental issue is that the mindset and old thoughts of our society have to be changed. In this modern society, we must be ready to ensure equal rights for women; it is our responsibility and a challenge. What we want now is a social revolution to demolish all the walls of discrimination amongst women," said Sonia Gandhi.

Sonia Gandhi recalls Rajiv Gandhi at the launch of Ahimsa Messenger in New Delhi

Congress President and UPA Chairperson Sonia Gandhi launched the 'Ahimsa Messenger' Programme -- an initiative by the Centre to address the violence against women - on Saturday. She also recalled the contribution of Late Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi and said that Rajiv Ji always believed that empowering women is necessary for development.

Nation remembers Rajiv Gandhi on 69th birth anniversary

New Delhi: India on Tuesday remembered former Prime Minister and legendary Congress leader Rajiv Gandhi on his 69th birth anniversary. President Pranab Mukherjee, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Rajiv Gandhi’s wife and Congress President Sonia Gandhi paid floral tributes to the departed leader.

Apart from Sonia Gandhi, her son and Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi, daughter Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, her husband Robert Vadra and Priyanka Gandhi’s daughter Sonia Gandhi's grand daughter Miraya also laid flowers at the samadhi.

Devotional music played throughout the programme. Scores of National Students Union of India (NSUI), the student wing of Congress, members were also present on the occasion. A group of Congress workers, mostly from Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka and Tamil Nadu, who were part of the Sadbhavna Yatra to spread the message of national harmony and integration against terrorism, were also present at Vir Bhumi.

Rajiv Gandhi, who heralded the information and communication technology revolution in the country, was born on August 20, 1944 and served as the sixth Prime Minister of India from 1984-1989. He was assassinated on May 21, 1991 at Sriperumbudur in Tamil Nadu while addressing an election campaign.

Rajiv Gandhi remembered on his 69th birth anniversary

Today is the 69th birth anniversary of former Prime Minister Bharat Ratna Rajiv Gandhi. The nation paid its tribute to the great visionary with a series of programmes planned throughout the nation to commemorate the day. Early morning ,Congress President Sonia Gandhi along with her son and Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi , Priyanka Gandhi Vadra and Robert Vadra reached Veer bhoomi , the memorial of Late Rajiv Gandhi and paid their tributes. Several other leaders including Prime Minister Manmohan Singh were also present at Veer bhoomi to remember Rajiv Gandhi and pay their tributes.

Remembering legendary Rajiv Gandhi on his 69th birth anniversary

August 20 is the birth anniversary of Sh. Rajiv Gandhi, former Prime Minister and a legendary Congress leader who is known as the creator of 'modern India'. He was one of the most visionary leaders of post-independence India. His insights and initiatives into liberalization of Indian economy, technological advancement and most importantly bringing the computer revolution in India, made him a futuristic leader of his times. India went through a lot of changes under Rajiv Gandhi's leadership.

Remembering Rajiv Gandhi on his 69th birth anniversary

August 20 is the birth anniversary of Sh. Rajiv Gandhi, former Prime Minister and a legendary Congress leader who is known as the creator of 'modern India'. He was one of the most visionary leaders of post-independence India. His insights and initiatives into liberalization of Indian economy, technological advancement and most importantly bringing the computer revolution in India, made him a futuristic leader of his times. India went through a lot of changes under Rajiv Gandhi's leadership.

Rahul Gandhi: Congress is committed to ensure food security

Rahul Gandhi, who is now the Congress Vice President is a leader, like his father Late Rajiv Gandhi, progressive and energetic. He believes in inclusive growth and insists for more democracy within the party. Rahul Gandhi wants the food security be implemented at the earliest so that no poor in this country will live in hunger.

Rahul Gandhi wants better health care facilities and education for the poor

Rahul Gandhi, who is now the Congress Vice President is a leader, like his father Late Rajiv Gandhi, progressive and energetic. He believes in inclusive growth and insists for more democracy within the party. Rahul Gandhi wants that the youth in the country should be connected to the political system to cleanse it.

Rahul Gandhi -- charismatic Congress Vice President

Rahul Gandhi, who is now the Congress Vice President is a leader, like his father Late Rajiv Gandhi, progressive and energetic. He believes in inclusive growth and insists for more democracy within the party. Rahul Gandhi wants that the youth in the country should be connected to the political system to cleanse it.

For Rahul Gandhi development means upliftment of the poor

Rahul Gandhi, who is now the Congress Vice President is a leader, like his father Late Rajiv Gandhi, progressive and energetic. He believes in inclusive growth and insists for more democracy within the party. Rahul Gandhi wants that the youth in the country should be connected to the political system to cleanse it.

Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi -- progressive leader with modern vision

Rahul Gandhi, who is now the Congress Vice President is a leader, like his father Late Rajiv Gandhi, progressive and energetic. He believes in inclusive growth and insists for more democracy within the party. Rahul Gandhi wants that the youth in the country should be connected to the political system to cleanse it.

Rahul Gandhi -- committed for the welfare of the poor

Rahul Gandhi, who is now the Congress Vice President is a leader, like his father Late Rajiv Gandhi, progressive and energetic. He believes in inclusive growth and insists for more democracy within the party. Rahul Gandhi wants that the youth in the country should be connected to the political system to cleanse it.

Rahul Gandhi --progressive leader with modern vision like Rajiv Gandhi

Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi is a leader who follows the footsteps of his father -- late Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi -- the creator of modern India. Like Rajiv Gandhi Rahul Gandhi also has a modern and progressive vision and believes that one should take all sections of the people in the process of development.

Like Rajiv Gandhi, Rahul Gandhi too a leader with a vision for modern India

The Congress workers across the country are in better spirits after appointing Rahul Gandhi as its Vice President. Rahul Gandhi is a leader who follows the footsteps of his father -- late Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi -- the creator of modern India. Like Rajiv Gandhi Rahul Gandhi also has a modern and progressive vision and believes that one should take all sections of the people in the process of development.

Rahul Gandhi : A true secular Congress leader

Newly appointed Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi always argued that if overall development is to be attained the entire section, especially the poor, should be a part in the process of development. He also wants more and more participation of youth in the politics.

Rahul Gandhi -- a leader who always insists for inclusive growth

Newly appointed Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi always argued that if overall development is to be attained the entire section, especially the poor, should be a part in the process of development. He also wants more and more participation of youth in the politics.

One should remember Rajiv Gandhi in the wake of CAG report

The Parliament has been witnessing stormy scenes in the wake of recent CAG report on coal block allocations. India’s Comptroller and Audit General (CAG) Vinod Rai in his report has noted in his report “The government and auditors are not adversaries but are on the same table since the objective is to upgrade governance and to ensure a totally leakage-free delivery system of government projects, schemes and practices to ensure there are no loopholes and lacunae”. By this what he meant was that the benefit of the schemes and policies meant for the people should reach them without any lapses, transparently.

Here we should recall what our former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi had said. The creator of modern India had said that 85 paise per rupee allocated for development got siphoned off before reaching the intended beneficiaries. On many occasions he expressed his concern that the poor are unable to avail the benefits of the welfare funds sent for them by the government the way it should have been.

His son and Congress General Secretary Rahul Gandhi also has been quoting his father’s statement that when centre sanctions one rupee for the poor only 15 paisa reaches them. The young Congress MP from Amethi also has his own idea to ensure transparency in administration and he wants further upliftment of the downtrodden. Rahul Gandhi is having the opinion that Aadhar UID card will ensure more transparency in the safe passage of the central funds to the poor without any hindrance. "Every citizen of this country will have an identity card as a proof of their existence by the Aadhar scheme. Further the card will include the Bank account number along with the Aadhar Card Number so as to ensure connectivity and transparency and with this the Central funds will directly reach the account holder," argues Rahul Gandhi.

The recent CAG findings clearly underline the need for ensuring transparency in public administration. If the government sends any amount of money for the welfare of the poor, it is also necessary that it makes sure that the entire funds reach the beneficiaries. The development of our nation will be possible only if we ensure this fact.. That is what Rajiv Gandhi wanted, Rahul Gandhi argues for and the people have been eagerly waiting for.

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Rajiv Gandhi put India on the top of the fast moving countries

Today India has a strong standing in the field of Information Technology throughout the globe and the credit goes to Rajiv Gandhi.

Rajiv Gandhi had said “We need to ensure that newest of technology is utilized and used at the rural level. We need to befriend Science and technology to jump to higher notches.”

“He raised the confidence of the nation. He emphasized on the role of technology, Information Technology in particular. I think he showed to the world that he had a dream, he ‘too had a dream’ as he said. We all got enthused by seeing a young, idealistic and dynamic person. Rajiv Gandhi was one of the two people whose death invoked great sentiments in me because he was Young, dynamic and he had a vision for India for the future. He was an extraordinary leader and I think we all are going to miss him. I wish he had lived longer, says Narayan Moorti, founder , Infosys.

Decades before, Rajiv Gandhi had imagined the world of today. During his tenure he initiated a lot of programmes for the progress of technology. He laid stress on the development of fields like Space research , Nuclear research , Genetic Engineering , Genetic Biology and Computer software development.

Rajiv Gandhi had the conviction to change his dreams into reality. He wanted to development initiatives to be treated like a mission and so all his targets were his missions rather.

Rajiv Gandhi’s emphasis on Panchayti Raj explains the fact that he believed that in a country like India or for that matter any country the real power ,be it political or administrative, cannot be fully tapped and democratized without women. Rajiv Gandhi was not only interested in the technological development of the country but he had equal interest in maintaining the national culture. He wanted the structure of development to be uniform and in sync with the national culture.

Today on his Martyrdom day, Nation salutes the visionary.

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Nation pays homage to Rajiv Gandhi

New Delhi: The nation paid homage on Monday to former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi on his 21st death anniversary.
President Pratibha Patil, Vice-President Hamid Ansari, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Congress President Sonia Gandhi were among the first to pay floral tribute to the late leader at “Veer Bhumi”, the memorial of Rajiv Gandhi.
Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi Vadra also paid floral tributes to their father who was assassinated on May 21, 1991 at Sriperumbudur in Tamil Nadu during an election campaign. Priyanka Gandhi’s husband Robert Vadra was also present. May 21st will be observed as Anti-Terrorism day to commemorate the death anniversary of former Prime Minister Mr. Rajiv Gandhi. On his way to address an election meeting he was garlanded by many school children and party well wishers. Assassin Dhanu got an opportunity to mix with the crowd and execute her merciless, treacherous plan. Rajiv Gandhi’s murder had left the whole nation in shock and emotional outburst.
Since then, the day is celebrated as Anti-terrorism day in the honor of our former Prime Minister. Terrorism is the most brutal form of crime that human beings can ever commit; it has also become a fear factor for Indians and the world. The purpose of celebrating this day every year is to keep our youth away from indulging in such wrong activities risking their lives along with risking lives of several other innocent people.
The responsibility of driving this fear out of our society solely lies on our shoulders. On the day, people are made aware of heinous terrorist activities and their after effects on the society.