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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

Congressmen to take special pledge to uphold Nehruvian principles today
National | Nov 14, 2014, 08:39 AM IST
New Delhi: Congress will hold a three-day nationwide rally of party activists to pay “a befitting tribute” to the country's first Prime Minister, Jawaharlal Nehru, on his 125th birth anniversary.Congress president Sonia Gandhi and her
Punjab Congress launches 'Save Punjab' campaign to combat drug menace today
National | Nov 14, 2014, 07:19 AM IST
Chandigarh: The Punjab Congress will today launch massive 'Save Punjab' anti-drug awareness campaign in the state to combat this perilous problem that is spreading swiftly and affecting the youth.The Congress state party Chief Partap Singh
J&K Polls: Sonia, Rahul to campaign in the state next week
National | Nov 13, 2014, 05:55 PM IST
Jammu: Congress President Sonia Gandhi and Vice President Rahul Gandhi will campaign next week in favour of the party candidates for the upcoming state elections in Jammu and Kashmir.“AICC President Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi

Rahul Gandhi's whole life has been a photo opportunity: BJP
National | Nov 13, 2014, 07:05 PM IST
New Delhi: In a scathing attack on Rahul Gandhi, the BJP Thursday said the Congress vice president's whole life had been a photo opportunity, and raised questions on his performance in parliament.Reacting to Gandhi's accusation
Those who have launched 'Swachh Bharat Abhiyan' are spreading poison in society: Rahul Gandhi
National | Nov 13, 2014, 04:14 PM IST
New Delhi: The Congress accused Prime Minister Narendra Modi of spreading the “poison” of communalism and asked party men to fight those out to demolish Jawaharlal Nehru's “liberal India”, intensifying the battle over his legacy.While
Bhardwaj pitches for bigger role for Priyanka in Congress
National | Nov 11, 2014, 10:13 PM IST
New Delhi: Congress leader H R Bhardwaj, a known Gandhi family loyalist, today pitched for leadership role for Priyanka Gandhi and said Rahul Gandhi is not capable of attracting crowds.A former Law Minister who recently

Congress stays away from swearing-in ceremony
National | Nov 09, 2014, 08:33 PM IST
New Delhi: Congress on Sunday kept away from the oath-taking ceremony of 21 new Ministers in Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Council of Ministers.“Both Sonia Gandhi and Manmohan Singh were invited to the ceremony,” Power Minister
Sonia Gandhi, Rahul meet Manmohan Singh, hail award by Japan
National | Nov 08, 2014, 11:19 PM IST
New Delhi: Congress president Sonia Gandhi and party vice-president Rahul Gandhi visited former prime minister Manmohan Singh on Saturday to congratulate him for being conferred with one of the highest civilian honours of Japan.Singh was
National Herald Case: Delhi HC allows more time to Sonia-Rahul lawyers to conclude argument
National | Nov 04, 2014, 12:53 PM IST
New Delhi: In a major relief Sonia and Rahul Gandhi in the National Herald case, the Delhi High Court has extended its stay on the trial court summons served on Sonia Gandhi, Rahul Gandhi and

Rahul Gandhi holds another round of consultations on party's future
National | Nov 03, 2014, 09:11 PM IST
New Delhi: On a day Congress suffered a split in Tamil Nadu, Rahul Gandhi today held confabulations with some senior party leaders, including Kerala Chief Minister Oomen Chandy, on the future course in the wake
Modi a man with vision, but still not impressed: Dikshit
National | Nov 02, 2014, 05:51 PM IST
New Delhi: Days after reports quoted her as having lavished praises on Prime Minister Narendra Modi, former Delhi Chief Minister and Congress leader Sheila Dikshit has now said that she was not impressed by him.
Rahul Gandhi should take charge of Congress: Digvijay Singh
National | Nov 01, 2014, 10:30 AM IST
New Delhi: Congress general secretary Digvijay Singh has stunned everyone by calling for a leadership change in the party. He said that party vice-president Rahul Gandhi should take the charge of the Congress from his

Leaders pay tributes to Indira Gandhi on death anniversary
National | Oct 31, 2014, 09:38 AM IST
New Delhi: The nation today remembered former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi on her 30th death anniversary with President Pranab Mukherjee, Vice President Hamid Ansari and other leaders paying tributes to her. Mukherjee, Congress President Sonia
Rahul directs elimination of bogus members in Congress polls
National | Oct 28, 2014, 11:29 PM IST
New Delhi: Rahul Gandhi today directed weeding out of bogus members in the organisational elections to make Congress fighting fit in the wake of the debacle in Lok Sabha and Assembly polls.The Congress Vice President
Organisational polls should reinvigorate, rejuvenate the party: Rahul Gandhi
National | Oct 28, 2014, 06:20 PM IST
New Delhi: Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday said the organisational elections should be utilised to "reinvigorate and rejuvenate" the party following the debacle in the Lok Sabha and Assembly polls.In his first formal

Sonia, Rahul in black money list, claims Subramanian Swamy
National | Oct 28, 2014, 12:14 PM IST
New Delhi: Senior Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Subramanian Swamy has claimed that Congress president Sonia Gandhi and her son Rahul Gandhi are in the list of people who have stashed black money in foreign
Vasan thrashes Chidambaram's non-Gandhi chief pitch
National | Oct 27, 2014, 04:28 PM IST
Chennai: Endorsing the leadership of Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi, former Union Shipping Minister and senior Congress leader G K Vasan today said here that party workers were not in favour of a non-Gandhi party
Sonia Gandhi, Rahul Gandhi should 'speak more': P Chidambaram
National | Oct 25, 2014, 07:26 AM IST
New Delhi: Senior Congress leader P Chidambaram on Friday said that Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi should “speak more” and put in action a timetable that would enable the party to play the role of
Rahul Gandhi to visit Hudhud-hit Koraput today
National | Oct 20, 2014, 06:57 AM IST
Koraput (Odisha): Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi is scheduled to visit Maoist-affected Koraput district of Odisha today to take stock of areas affected by cyclone Hudhud.Security has been tightened ahead of his visit."As the area is
Congress wins 3 of 6 Haryana seats where Sonia, Rahul campaigned
National | Oct 19, 2014, 11:37 PM IST
Chandigarh: Congress, which was eyeing a record third term in Haryana on development plank, could win only three of six assembly seats where party president Sonia Gandhi and vice president Rahul Gandhi held election rallies