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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

Smriti Irani has assets worth Rs 4 cr
National | Apr 16, 2014, 07:40 PM IST
Amethi: Television actor and BJP candidate Smriti Irani contesting against Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi, declared her assets at over Rs four crore in her nominations today.In her affidavit Irani has declared movable property worth
Modiji, stop fooling people, Rahul Gandhi tells Bihar rally
National | Apr 16, 2014, 04:59 PM IST
Kisanganj(Bihar): Modiji, stop “fooling” the people, Rahul Gandhi asserted today in a fresh broadside against Narendra Modi, dubbing his “toffee or balloon” model of development in Gujarat as nothing but “loot of public money”.“Hindustan ko
Rahul Gandhi continues attack on Modi's 'toffee' model in Agra
India | Apr 16, 2014, 09:40 AM IST
Agra: Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi kept up his attack on BJP prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi's 'toffee model' of development that only helped the rich at the cost of the poor.Addressing a public rally

New slogan of Congress 'Main nahin Mom': Arun Jaitley
National | Apr 15, 2014, 11:37 PM IST
New Delhi: BJP leader Arun Jaitley today took a potshot at the Congress over the televised messages of Sonia Gandhi, saying that the party had been forced to change its principal communicator since Rahul Gandhi's
'Balak mann' Rahul still in a world of balloons, toffees: Modi
National | Apr 15, 2014, 11:28 PM IST
Bhagalpur (Bihar): Narendra Modi today used the book authored by Prime Minister's former media adviser to mock at Manmohan Singh and targeted Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi, saying they wielded the real power instead of
Sonia, Rahul, Advani to hit campaign trail in Bengal
National | Apr 15, 2014, 06:42 PM IST
Kolkata: Congress president Sonia Gandhi, party vice president Rahul Gandhi, senior BJP leader L.K. Advani and party president Rajnath Singh will hit the campaign trail for the Lok Sabha polls in West Bengal.According to a

Priyanka slams Varun, says LS poll not a family tea party
National | Apr 15, 2014, 05:57 PM IST
Amethi: Priyanka Gandhi today fired yet another salvo at her cousin Varun Gandhi, saying the Lok Sabha elections is “an ideological war and not a family tea party”. Even as Varun hit back at her
Manmohan Singh only super PM in UPA govt: Priyanka
National | Apr 15, 2014, 05:54 PM IST
Amethi (UP): Priyanka Gandhi today said that only Manmohan Singh was the “super Prime Minister” in UPA government, amid a storm over Sanjaya Baru's tell-all book that raised questions over the political authority of the
Live: Modi hits back at Rahul for 'toffee' comment at Hazaribagh rally
National | Apr 15, 2014, 05:34 PM IST
Hazaribagh: Hitting back at Rahul Gandhi for dubbing Gujarat development model as a ‘toffee model', Narendra Modi today compared the Congress Vice President with children and said the word ‘toffee' has caught his fancy after

Live: Priyanka Gandhi campaigns for Rahul in Amethi
National | Apr 15, 2014, 12:22 PM IST
Amethi: Priyanka Gandhi is on a two day visit to her brother's constituency. She will be campaigning for Rahul Tuesday, who is the sitting MP of Amethi constituency. Priyanka will be holding public meetings, meet
Vajpayee-Advani replaced by Modi-Adani: Rahul
National | Apr 15, 2014, 07:23 PM IST
Hingoli (Rajasthan): Vajpayee-Advani partnership has been replaced by Modi-Adani one, Rahul Gandhi said today, taking a jibe at Gujarat Chief Minister and his alleged favours to the Adani group.Addressing a rally here, he said Modi
Priyanka 'myth' too needs to be exploded: BJP
National | Apr 14, 2014, 07:23 PM IST
New Delhi: BJP today said it wishes Priyanka Gandhi would have contested against Narendra Modi as the country now needs the “myth” around her also to be “exploded” and slammed Congress as just “a crowd

Gujarat development model a 'toffee model': Rahul
National | Apr 14, 2014, 07:09 PM IST
Latur (Mah): In a blistering attack on Narendra Modi, Rahul Gandhi today dubbed the Gujarat model propagated by Narendra Modi as a “toffee model”, saying it has benefited only one industrialist in the state, ignoring
Congress shivering, knows it will have to pay for misdeeds: Modi
National | Apr 14, 2014, 07:10 PM IST
Lacchmangarh (Sikar): Claiming that Congress was “shivering” at the prospect of his taking charge, Narendra Modi today warned its leaders that will have to pay for their “misdeeds” after May 16.The BJP's Prime Ministerial candidate
Live: Who are Sonia and Rahul to teach Indians on culture, says Modi at Rajasthan rally
National | Apr 14, 2014, 05:58 PM IST
Laxmangarh (Rajasthan): Narendra Modi on Monday paid tribute to all the mothers of India who raised their sons for service to the nation. At the same time, he took a jibe a Congress President, for

BJD sacrificing commoners for few businessmen: Rahul
National | Apr 14, 2014, 04:25 PM IST
Bhubaneswar: Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi Monday accused Odisha's ruling Biju Janata Dal (BJD) of benefiting a few industries and sacrificing the interests of the common people.Addressing an election rally in Jagatsinghpur, about 80 km
Rahul insulting Ambedkar by taking credit for laws: Modi
National | Apr 14, 2014, 02:01 PM IST
Ahmedabad: On the 123rd birth anniversary of B R Ambedkar, Narendra Modi today attacked Rahul Gandhi saying he was “insulting” the chief architect of the Constitution by taking credit for enacting laws and giving rights
Gandhis are under siege, says Jaitley
National | Apr 14, 2014, 02:05 PM IST
New Delhi: Senior BJP leader Arun Jaitley Monday attacked the Congress, saying the "Gandhis are under siege" and the party appears to be getting "more and more desperate".Commenting on media reports that Congress vice president
Call and campaign for Kejriwal, Vishwas from anywhere in India
National | Apr 14, 2014, 12:25 PM IST
New Delhi: The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) has begun its Citizens Call Campaign in Varanasi and Amethi Lok Sabha constituencies, enabling its volunteers as well as the common man from across the country to canvass
Talk of empowering people hollow when PM left powerless: BJP
National | Apr 13, 2014, 07:00 PM IST
New Delhi: BJP today ridiculed Rahul Gandhi's comments that he believed in empowering people and fighting graft, saying his claims sound hollow as he and his mother Sonia Gandhi had even “snatched” away the powers