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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

Sonia, Rahul accept people's verdict in Maharashtra and Haryana
National | Oct 19, 2014, 06:29 PM IST
New Delhi: With Congress losing power in Maharashtra and Haryana, its President Sonia Gandhi and Vice President Rahul Gandhi said the party will now play a "constructive and vigilant role" in the two states where
Amid Congress debacle in two states, Rahul Gandhi visits cyclone affected areas in AP
National | Oct 19, 2014, 03:11 PM IST
Visakhapatnam/Bhubaneswar: Away from the electoral debacle that engulfed the party in Maharashtra and Haryana demoralising cadres, Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi on Sunday visited the Cyclone Hudhud affected areas in Visakhapatnam.He was accompanied by state party
Rahul Gandhi to visit Odisha on Monday
National | Oct 19, 2014, 11:49 AM IST
Bhubaneswar: Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi will visit Odisha Monday. He will undertake an aerial survey of the areas affected by cyclone 'Hudhud' and meet some of the victims.Gandhi will reach Jeypore in Koraput district

Call for 'Priyanka lao, Congress Bachao' gets louder in Congress after poll debacle
National | Oct 19, 2014, 05:38 PM IST
New Delhi: With trends projecting a defeat for Congress in both Maharashtra and Haryana, a group of party workers gathered outside the AICC office here demanding that Priyanka Gandhi join active politics.This is not the
Congress expels MP leader for questioning Sonia and Rahul's credentials to lead a national party
National | Oct 16, 2014, 09:44 AM IST
Bhopal: AICC expelled senior functionary Gufran-e-Azam for indulging in Anti-party activities ever since the Congress met its fall in the 2014 Lok Sabha Elections.What compelled the Congress high command to take this extreme step was
Five months after poll debacle, Congress sticking to old ways
National | Oct 12, 2014, 08:57 PM IST
New Delhi: Five months after its rout in the Lok Sabha polls, the Congress appears not to have made any major course correction with its plans of restructuring said to be still in the works.With

Ramtek will be developed as tourist hub: Rahul Gandhi
National | Oct 12, 2014, 07:25 PM IST
Ramtek (Maharashtra): Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi today promised to develop Ramtek town as a world class tourist centre to attract international tourists. Addressing a mammoth poll rally in the temple town of Nagpur district here,
Rahul Gandhi takes on Modi over ceasefire violations
National | Oct 11, 2014, 08:19 PM IST
Sirsa (Haryana): Slamming Prime Minister Narendra Modi over the ceasefire violations, Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi today said that onslaught started a day after the Prime Minister assured the country that things were back to
Hope Satyarthi-Malala Nobel pushes India, Pak to peace: Manmohan
National | Oct 11, 2014, 09:50 AM IST
New Delhi: Congratulating Nobel Peace Prize winners Kailash Satyarthi and Pakistani teenage activist Malala Yousufzai, former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh yesterday said he hopes that the award will inspire India and Pakistan to work sincerely

Haryana Polls: BJP slams Rahul, says he can't see through 'foreign glasses'
National | Oct 10, 2014, 05:38 PM IST
Hansi (Haryana): BJP today hit back at Rahul Gandhi for questioning NDA government's abilities in handling Pakistan and China, saying the Congress Vice President could not see what the Centre was doing as he was
Maharashtra Polls: Congress cannot be banished from Maha: Rahul
National | Oct 10, 2014, 03:55 PM IST
Dindori (Maha): Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi today attacked Prime Minister Narendra Modi for his call for “Congress-free Maharashtra”, saying it was impossible as his party's ethos and ideology were same as that of the
Maharashtra polls: PM Narendra Modi to address three election rallies today
National | Oct 10, 2014, 08:14 AM IST
New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi is holding series of public meetings in Maharashtra and Haryana ahead of the assembly polls slated for October 15.Today, the Prime Minister will hold election rallies in Brahmapuri in

Haryana polls: Modi is working for big industrialists, alleges Rahul Gandhi
National | Oct 09, 2014, 04:48 PM IST
Jhirka (Haryana): Charging Prime Minister Narendra Modi with working for a few industrialists, Rahul Gandhi today alleged Modi lifted control on drug prices at the behest of some US companies which has led to cancer
Rahul commits blooper, calls Modi "opposition leader"
National | Oct 08, 2014, 07:35 PM IST
Mahad (Maha): Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi today committed a faux pas when he apparently referred to Prime Minister Narendra Modi as “opposition leader”. “An opposition leader says nothing happened in the last 60 years.
Modi has nothing to stop Pak shelling: Rahul Gandhi
National | Oct 08, 2014, 05:20 PM IST
Mahad (Maha): With shelling and firing by Pakistani troops continuing to claim civilian lives in Jammu and Kashmir, Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi today targeted Prime Minister Narendra Modi, saying he has done nothing to

Modi's love with 'Damaad ji'
National | Oct 08, 2014, 08:29 AM IST
Prime Minister Narendra Modi once again brought Robert Vadra in the line of fire on controversial land deals, while campaigning today in Haryana.His love for Vadra's is nothing new; he had raked up his name
Maharashtra court exempts Rahul from appearance in defamation case
National | Oct 07, 2014, 04:47 PM IST
Thane: A magisterial court in Bhiwandi in Maharashtra's Thane district today granted exemption to Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi from personal appearance in a case in which he has been accused of making defamatory references
Maharashtra polls: 'Hidden agenda' behind NCP snapping ties, says Congress
National | Oct 01, 2014, 06:12 PM IST
New Delhi: Congress today suspected a “hidden agenda” behind NCP parting ways with it in Maharashtra, a day after Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan accused his former alliance partner of having a pre-meditated plan to topple
National Herald case: HC to hear plea of Sonia, Rahul Nov 3
National | Oct 01, 2014, 04:01 PM IST
New Delhi: The Delhi High Court Wednesday posted the plea of Congress president Sonia Gandhi, vice-president Rahul Gandhi and other party leaders in a case relating to the acquisition of the National Herald daily for
Sonia Gandhi interacts with Kashmir flood victims
National | Sep 29, 2014, 04:22 PM IST
Srinagar: Congress president Sonia Gandhi Monday visited the flood affected areas in Jammu and Kashmir's Anantnag district and interacted with the people.She arrived here Monday with party vice president Rahul Gandhi, Congress leader Ambika Soni,