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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

'Which words do you stand by?' RSS taunts Rahul Gandhi; asks him to apologise
National | Aug 26, 2016, 06:06 PM IST
The Rasthriya Swayamsewak Sangh (RSS) today demanded clarification from Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi on his comment about the organisation’s involvement in the murder of Mahatma Gandhi. Taking on the Congress VP on major social
RSS seeks clarification from Rahul over his remark on Mahatma Gandhi’s assassination
National | Aug 26, 2016, 02:28 PM IST
The Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) today questioned Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi over his remark of standing by every word he said about the outfit’s role in the assassination of Mahatma Gandhi.
Stand by every word I said: Rahul Gandhi on blaming RSS for Mahatma Gandhi’s murder
National | Aug 25, 2016, 05:35 PM IST
Rahul Gandhi on Thursday dismissed suggestions that he had made a U-turn on RSS role in killing Mahatma and insisted that he stood by every single word said by him.

RSS didn’t kill the Mahatma, says Rahul Gandhi; Twitter goes crazy on Congress VP’s U-turn
National | Aug 24, 2016, 09:35 PM IST
Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday became the butt of all jokes on Twitter after he told the Supreme Court that he never blamed the RSS as an institution for the assassination of Mahatma Gandhi
Are Dalits and backwards not nationalists, Rahul Gandhi asks PM Modi
National | Aug 24, 2016, 06:01 PM IST
Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi today asked PM Modi to explain if ‘Dalits’ and ‘backwards’ were not nationalists in his eyes.
Never blamed RSS, as an institution, for Mahatma Gandhi’s killing: Rahul Gandhi tells SC
National | Aug 24, 2016, 03:48 PM IST
Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi today told the Supreme Court that he never blamed Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), as an institution, for assasination of Mahatma Gandhi.

What happened when Rahul Gandhi was ‘ragged’ in his high school
National | Aug 22, 2016, 10:53 AM IST
While many of us have experienced ragging in our school or college life, it is hard to believe that even a member of the Gandhi family, India’s most powerful political family, could not escape it.
Congress VP Rahul Gandhi recounts his 'short-lived singing career'
National | Aug 21, 2016, 12:05 AM IST
Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi today revisited his short effort at singing during his high school days and hoped it would be the last time he will sing in public. Gandhi began his speech at
Rahul Gandhi tweets a prayer for PM Modi in response to his ‘BJP faced more adversity’ remark
National | Aug 19, 2016, 05:44 PM IST
Taking a jibe at Prime Minister Narendra Modi for his remark that BJP faced more adversity in independent India compared to what Congress faced during British rule, Congress president Rahul Gandhi today tweeted a prayer for him.

Freedom can never be for the few: Rahul Gandhi
National | Aug 15, 2016, 01:09 PM IST
Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi today said that “freedom can never be for the few” and asked Indians to aspire for a country where ideas are not "crushed violently" by the forces of hate and mediocrity.
Rahul Gandhi takes a dig at PM, says ‘No govt of Modi, by Modi, for Modi’
National | Aug 13, 2016, 04:45 PM IST
Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi today took a dig at Prime Minister Narendra Modi after the Supreme Court pulled up central governmenton the issue of appointment of judges on Friday.
News in Nutshell: Important stories of the day
India | Aug 06, 2016, 08:09 PM IST
News in Nutshell: Important stories of the day

Rahul Gandhi summoned by Assam Court in defamation case filed by RSS
National | Aug 06, 2016, 04:42 PM IST
Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi was today summoned by an Assam court in connection with a defamation case for his alleged remarks against the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS).
Sonia Gandhi stable, recovering well: Ghulam Nabi Azad
National | Aug 03, 2016, 07:49 AM IST
Congress president Sonia Gandhi, who had to cut short her visit to Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Lok Sabha constituency Varanasi after she was taken ill, returned here late yesterday night and was taken to the Army's Research and Referral Hospital.
Sacrificing ‘scapegoat’ Anandiben won’t save BJP: Rahul Gandhi
National | Aug 02, 2016, 12:07 PM IST
Reacting to the resignation offer of Gujarat Chief Minister Anandiben Patel, Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi today said that the BJP was making Anandiben a scapegoat but sacrificing her will not save the party in the state.

‘Akhilesh theek ladka hai’, feels Rahul Gandhi; Samajwadi Party seeks apology
National | Jul 30, 2016, 11:51 AM IST
Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi feels that Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav is a ‘well-meaning’ boy, but he couldn’t deliver much during his chief ministership because of ‘goondagardi’ (hooliganism) in the party. “Akhilesh theek
After ‘Arhar Modi’, Rahul flays PM for Bullet trains, questions its viability
National | Jul 29, 2016, 05:54 PM IST
Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi continued his offensive against Prime Minister Narendra Modi for the second consecutive day questioning the viability of Bullet trains. He was addressing party workers in Lucknow. Criticising the Prime Minister
This is how Twitter reacted to Rahul Gandhi’s #ArharModi speech
National | Jul 28, 2016, 09:29 PM IST
Rahul Gandhi on Thursday cracked up social networking sites after his jibe at Prime Minister Narendra Modi with a new slogan- Arhar Modi- in a reference to rising daal prices in the country.
'Bluster not a substitute of statistics': Jaitley responds to Rahul's 'Arhar Modi'
National | Jul 28, 2016, 11:10 PM IST
Responding to Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi’s 'Arhar Modi' jibe directed at the Prime Minister, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley hit back and slammed UPA's record on inflation. "There was policy paralysis during the UPA regime and
‘Arhar’ Modi: After ‘suit boot’ and ‘fair & lovely’, Rahul Gandhi’s latest jibe at PM
National | Jul 28, 2016, 05:35 PM IST
Taking a jibe at the Narendra Modi-led NDA government at Centre for the soaring prices of pulses, Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi gave a new slogan- ‘Arhar Modi, har har Modi’. “A new slogan is being