The youth wing of the ruling African National Congress party has been calling nationalisation for months.
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Senior Congress party leader and former federal minister Vidya Charan Shukla was among 32 injured.
The dead also included state Congress party chief Nand Kumar Patel and his son.
The attackers then fired at the Congress party leaders and their supporters before fleeing.
As a crucial ally of the ruling Congress party, she is in a strong position.
Besides, having the JD(U)'s backing could help the Congress party-led coalition in the national election.
India's ruling Congress party, to which Mr Gandhi belonged, has rejected the Wikileaks revelations.
"There may be presidential rule, " says Gagan Thapa from the opposition Nepali Congress Party.
The Congress party is regarded by voters as secular and pro-poor but wary of business.
Jairam Ramesh, of India's ruling Congress party, blames the difference on the Indian bourgeoisie.
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Since she took over as president of the Congress party in the late 1990s, Mrs.
In 1938, she joined the National Congress party and became active in India's independence movement.
It is to be inaugurated by Congress party president Sonia Gandhi on June 30.
The ruling Congress party will have a tough fight in parliamentary elections scheduled for April.
Congress Party leader Sonia Gandhi promised the woman's death would not be "in vain".
The promotion and the much-talked-about speech came at a difficult time for the Congress party.
Nobody expected the Congress party to come out on top and that goes for Congress's own leadership.
Rahul Gandhi, a Congress Party scion, campaigns among all the state's castes, including dalits.
First, the state government then controlled by the Congress Party foisted the Dabhol power project on them.
Besides Communists, many in the Congress party itself harbour an instinctive antipathy towards the superpower.
Nehru's Congress party, they point out, had no interest in bringing Bose back from exile.
The defence minister, A.K. Antony of the Congress Party, usually a shrinking violet, refused.
Varanasi is witnessing a three-cornered contest between the BJP, the main Opposition Congress party, and the regional Samajwadi Party.
The leaders of the Congress party, including Jawaharlal Nehru, were insensitive to these fears.
Then the opposition Nepali Congress Party expects to move into government to oversee elections.
The coalition won power in 1995, dislodging the Congress Party, which had long ruled Maharashtra.
The government lost another important ally - the Trinamool Congress party of West Bengal - last September.
The Congress party, which rules Maharashtra and heads the national coalition government, is loth to upset him.
The ruling coalition, led by the Congress party, has the votes to push its presidential candidate through.
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