#INDIA: Yoga Guru Says Failure To Do Yoga Cost Opposition Leader Gandhi's Party Election

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A national yoga guru has attributed the Opposition National Congress Party's drubbing in the recent legislative elections to party president Rahul Gandhi failing to practising yoga.

Yoga guru Baba Ramdev is preparing to celebrate International Yoga Day on June 21.

Ramdev praised Prime Minister Narenda Modi for his daily yoga practice. But Modi didn't join in the attacks, instead wishing Gandhi a happy birthday in a gracious tweet, that read, "Best wishes to Shri @RahulGandhi on his birthday. May he be blessed with good health and a long life."

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#INDIA: Congress Party Pres. Rahul Gandhi Says He'd Have Junked Rollout Of Demonetization; Rips Modi's Policies

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On a trip to Malaysia, Congress Party President Rahul Gandhi criticized PM Narenda Modi's policy of demonetization, which removed high-value banknotes from circulation. Asked how he would have rolled out the policy differently, he said, "If I was the Prime Minister and somebody had given me a file with 'demonetization' written on it, I would thrown it in the dustbin," he continued to say he would have "rolled it out through door and into the junkyard." Congress Party blames the policy for an economic slowdown.

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#INDIA: Sonia Gandhi Hands Over Congress Party To Her Son, Rahul

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Rahul Gandhi has taken over as the president of the Congress Party from his mother Sonia Gandhi. He used the occasion of the long-awaited hand-over to launch a frontal attack on Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his ruling BJP, calling on Congress Party workers, especially the youth, to stand up to the challenge "the BJP rule is posing to the country and the party."

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#INDIA: Congress Party Meeting May Discuss VP Rahul Gandhi Taking Over From His Mother, Sonia

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The Indian National Congress Party will hold a meeting of its highest body, the Congress Working Committee (CWC) January 11th, at which the elevation of party Vice Pres. Rahul Gandhi to the party's presidency may be discussed. His mother, Sonia Gandhi, is currently the party's leader. The meeting will also likely discuss how to sharpen attacks on the ruling BJP party's controversial policy of demonetization, in which large bills have been declared invalid.

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#INDIA: Oppo. VP Rahul Gandhi Calls For Bribery Investigation Of PM Modi

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Opposition Congress Party Vice-President Rahul Gandhi has demanded an investigation into allegations that two Indian conglomerates paid millions of rupees in bribes to the prime minister Narendra Modi when he was chief minister of Gujarat. Gandhi said the allegations dating between 2013-14 were found in diary notes and computer records of the Sahara Group and the Birla Group and were in the possession of income tax authorities.

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#INDIA: Congress Pty VP Rahul Gandhi Takes Heat After Return From 57-Day "Sabbatical"

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Congress Party Vice President Rahul Gandhi, the presumptive future party leader - his mother Sonia is the current president - has returned from an unexplained and mysterious 57-day "sabbatical." The return promoted a firestorm of ridicule on twitter and other social media.