Congress president Rahul Gandhi kicked off his party’s campaign for the Lok Sabha election in Madhya Pradesh with a farmers’ rally in Bhopal on Friday.

This was Rahul Gandhi’s first visit to the state after the Congress formed the government in Madhya Pradesh in December last year after a gap of 15 years.

4:45 pm IST Cong will give poor guaranteed income, not insult with Rs 17: Rahul Congress party has taken a historic decision..... PM Modi says he’ll give Rs 17. Congress party has taken the decision that it will give guaranteed income to the poor. We will not insult you by giving Rs 17: Rahul Gandhi





4:41 pm IST Truth cannot be kept hidden: Rahul Gandhi Truth cannot be kept hidden. Five years ago, PM Modi used to say he’ll eliminate corruption but now he says he’ll eliminate Congress: Rahul Gandhi





4:34 pm IST PM didn’t speak on Rafale even once in his long Parliament speech: Rahul Gandhi Prime Minister Narendra Modi made the Rafale aircraft deal directly with the French government without informing our Defence Ministry: Congress president Rahul Gandhi at public rally in Madhya Pradesh. “Every official in the defence ministry says ‘chowkidaar chor hai’.... Yesterday in the Parliament, PM comes and speaks for 1 hour and 45 minutes. He didn’t speak on Rafale even for a minute”: Rahul Gandhi





4:26 pm IST BJP leaders are clapping for giving Rs 3.5 per person: Rahul Gandhi I’ve understood that you can made Narendra Modi do anything by making him scared: Rahul Gandhi “BJP lawmakers clapped when PM Modi announced Rs 17 for farmers.. On one hand, Modi government wrote off Rs 3.50 lakh crore debt of rich people but gives a paltry Rs 17 per day to farmers. And if you divide it further, it comes down to Rs 3.5 per person’: Rahul Gandhi.





4:21 pm IST You are the master, masters are youth and farmers: Gandhi at MP rally Congress party won the election and everyone said it is Congress government but it is also a government of the youth, women, poor and farmers: Rahul Gandhi You are the master, the masters are youth and farmers: Gandhi at MP rally. Public is the master... our work is to listen to you: Rahul Gandhi. “We are not the kind of people who think I’ve done this, I’ve done that,” says Rahul Gandhi. Your strength has made the Congress win and removed the loans on farmers: Rahul Gandhi





4:16 pm IST Rahul Gandhi is the future Prime Minister of India: Kamal Nath Rahul Gandhi is the future Prime Minister of India: Kamal Nath.





4:15 pm IST Rahul Gandhi asked me to revive the agrarian sector: Kamal Nath Upon becoming the chief minister, Rahul Gandhi asked me to bring alive the agrarian sector. We need to revive it but PM Modi said he’ll give Rs 17 everyday to farmers and their condition will improve....But people of the country and MP have figured out the reality: Kamal Nath





4:09 pm IST Ours is not a government of announcements, advertisements: Kamal Nath Ours is not a government of announcements, advertisements. I’ve decided my picture will not be put out on any newspapers: Kamal Nath on fulfilling promises in election manifesto.





4:04 pm IST Madhya Pradesh’s people have supported the truth: Kamal Nath Madhya Pradesh’s people have not only supported Congress but also supported the truth: MP chief minister Kamal Nath





4:00 pm IST ‘You have sent rupee into the graveyard,’: Scindia ‘You have sent rupee into the graveyard,’ Scindia hits out at Modi government.





3:56 pm IST ‘Cong govt is pro-poor, pro-farmer,’ says Jyotiraditya Scindia “The Congress government doesn’t belong to a certain party but it is a propoor, pro-farmer, pro-women government,” said Jyotiraditya Scindia at Aabhar Sammelan in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh.





3:16 pm IST Rahul Gandhi reaches venue of the farmers’ rally Jamboree maidan Rahul Gandhi has reached Jamboree maidan and is meeting people at the helipad. Madhya Pradesh CM Kamal Nath, Jyotiraditya Scindia, Congress state-incharge Deepak Babaria are among others accompanying him.





2:42 pm IST Rahul Gandhi lands in Bhopal, to address farmers’ rally shortly Rahul Gandhi has landed at state hangar in Bhopal. He is holding meeting with top Congress leaders including CM Kamal Nath and Jyotiraditya Scindia. He will be reaching Jamboori maidan shortly to address farmers’ rally.





11:27 am IST ‘Defence ministry note said PM was carrying out parallel negotiations’: Rahul Gandhi “Modi Ji has stolen Rs 30, 000 crore, defence ministry has clearly said in a report that PM was carrying out parallel negotiations, the truth has come out,” said Rahul Gandhi in a press conference ahead of addressing a rally in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh.



