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Rahul Gandhi

Rahul Gandhi is the Congress leader and has been representing the Wayanad Lok Sabha constituency since 2019. In the 2019 Lok Sabha Election, Rahul Gandhi won the Wayanad seat by defeating Communist Party of India (CPI) candidate PP Suneer with a margin of 4,31,770 votes. However, Gandhi was defeated by Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Smriti Zubin Irani from his family's stronghold Amethi with a margin of 55,120 votes in the 2019 polls. Rahul Gandhi won three consecutive elections from Amethi in 2004, 2009 and 2014. He defeated Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) candidates Chandra Parkash Mishra Matiyari and Asheesh Shukla in the 2004 and 2009 polls respectively from Amethi. Rahul Gandhi again won the Amethi constituency in 2014 by defeating Smriti Zubin Irani with a margin of 1,07,903 votes. Gandhi was the president of the Congress party from 2017 to 2019.

Rahul Gandhi

Congress-tweeted list of Sahara entries also has Sheila Dikshit's name
National | Dec 24, 2016, 08:37 AM IST
Days after Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi accused Prime Minister Narendra Modi of taking Rs 40 crore in kickbacks from Sahara as the CM of Gujarat, his party on Friday inadvertently also showed its Uttar Pradesh chief ministerial candidate Shei
Demonetisation is economic looting, Rahul Gandhi blasts PM Modi
National | Dec 23, 2016, 06:32 PM IST
Continuing his tirade against Prime Minister Narendra Modi over the demonetisation drive, Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi today said that ‘banning of notes is an economic dacoity of the government’.
Mock me all you want, but answer my question: Rahul Gandhi to PM Modi
National | Dec 22, 2016, 06:21 PM IST
Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi on Thursday targeted Narendra Modi again, saying that the Prime Minister can mock him as much as he wants but needs to explain if he indulged in corruption or not.

Good that he has spoken, no chance of an earthquake now: PM Modi taunts Rahul Gandhi
National | Dec 22, 2016, 01:47 PM IST
Prime Minister Narendra Modi today taunted Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi using his ‘earthquake’ remark and said that he is ‘happy that the leader has learnt how to deliver speeches’.
Corruption bomb: SC termed documents cited by Rahul Gandhi as ‘zero, fictitious’
National | Dec 22, 2016, 11:50 AM IST
The documents referred to by Rahul Gandhi to make bribery charges against Prime Minister Narendra Modi has been termed ‘fictitious’ by the Supreme Court.
Rahul Gandhi’s charge against PM Modi: Corruption bomb or damp squib?
National | Dec 21, 2016, 11:28 PM IST
Rahul Gandhi today alleged that Narendra Modi as Gujarat Chief Minister had taken money from Sahara and Birla groups and demanded an independent inquiry into it.

Rahul Gandhi tries to troll PM Modi on demonetisation with this picture, gets trolled instead
National | Dec 21, 2016, 07:29 PM IST
Amid growing resentment on the handling of demonetisation, Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi today tried to troll the Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led government over the scrapping of Rs 500 and Rs 1000 notes with a
Baseless allegations against our ‘Ganga-like pure PM’, BJP reacts to Rahul Gandhi’s charge
National | Dec 21, 2016, 06:36 PM IST
BJP today defended the Prime Minister after Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi alleged that Narendra Modi as Gujarat Chief Minister had taken money from Sahara and Birla groups.
PM Modi snatching money from poor to waive off loans of rich: Rahul Gandhi
National | Dec 21, 2016, 04:48 PM IST
Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday targeted Prime Minister Narendra Modi over the demonetisation of Rs 500 and Rs 1000 notes saying that the move was aimed to waive off loans of rich people by taking money from the poor.

‘Modiji, everyone in Opposition is not Rahul Gandhi’, tweets Arvind Kejriwal
National | Dec 21, 2016, 12:32 PM IST
Arvind Kejriwal on Tuesday targeted Prime Minister Narendra Modi for misusing the Central Bureau of Investigation, saying not all could be cowed down as easily as Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi.
Rahul Gandhi more aggrieved by ‘demonetisation’ than common man, says BJP
National | Dec 21, 2016, 12:22 PM IST
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) today said that Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi is more aggrieved by the ‘demonetisation’ than a common man.
After Congress’ drubbing in Chandigarh civic polls, a meeting between Rahul Gandhi and Sidhu
National | Dec 20, 2016, 09:17 PM IST
Former Bhartiya Janata Party MP Navjot Singh Sidhu today met Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi amid speculation that the cricketer-turned politician would join the party sooner than later.

Rahul Gandhi attacks PM Modi for his own political sustenance: Smriti Irani
National | Dec 20, 2016, 05:54 PM IST
BJP leader Smriti Irani on Tuesday said attacking Prime Minister Narendra Modi was a way of political sustenance for Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi.
‘Changing rules like PM changes his clothes’: Rahul Gandhi mocks RBI on fresh curbs on deposits
National | Dec 20, 2016, 04:31 PM IST
Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday questioned the new RBI cap on deposits of demonetised currency and said the central bank is changing rules like the PM changes his clothes.
No 'murdabad' slogans against PM Modi at Congress meetings, our fight is political: Rahul Gandhi
National | Dec 19, 2016, 10:14 PM IST
At a rally in Jaunpur in Eastern UP, Gandhi stopped people from hurling invective against Modi, saying he is the Prime Minister and we must not say murdabad for anyone.

Congress leaders quitting post Rahul's Goa visit: CM
National | Dec 18, 2016, 10:15 PM IST
An exodus of leaders from the Congress party took place after vice president Rahul Gandhi’s visit to Goa, Chief Minister Laxmikant Parsekar quipped today. "Rahul Gandhi came to Goa to strengthen the Congress and when
Rahul Gandhi would have ‘exposed’ Modi in Parliament, says Ghulam Nabi Azad; ‘waiting for earthquake’, mocks BJP
National | Dec 18, 2016, 11:52 AM IST
Senior Congress leader Ghulam Nabi Azad on Saturday said that if party vice-president Rahul Gandhi would have been allowed to speak in Parliament, the Prime Minister would have been exposed.
Rahul Gandhi terms note ban a Modi-made disaster
National | Dec 18, 2016, 06:49 AM IST
Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi on Saturday accused the Narendra Modi-led NDA government of aiding the rich at the cost of the poor through demonetisation and termed the note ban move a Modi-made disaster for the country.
Rahul’s promise of action against corrupt in 2 minutes a joke: BJP
National | Dec 17, 2016, 08:08 PM IST
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) today dubbed Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi's promise to take action against corrupt party leaders within "two minutes" as "joke of the day". Gandhi vowed to act against the corrupt
PM Modi can't run away from accountability on ‘demonetisation’, says Rahul Gandhi
National | Dec 17, 2016, 06:51 PM IST
Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi today said that the Prime Minister Narendra Modi cannot run away from his accountability on ‘demonetisation’ and asserted that the Congress would "extract an answer" from him.