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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

Rahul will lose heavily in Amethi, says AAP leader Kumar Vishwas
National | Mar 18, 2014, 06:30 AM IST
Amethi (Uttar Pradesh): Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi will lose "by a big margin" in the Lok Sabha polls here, AAP leader and candidate Kumar Vishwas says.The Arvind Kejriwal associate also said in an interview
Rahul cut off from reality, Congress a sinking ship: Jaitley
National | Mar 18, 2014, 06:31 AM IST
New Delhi: BJP leader Arun Jaitley Monday termed the Congress "a sinking ship" and took a dig at Rahul Gandhi, contending the Congress vice president was "completely cut off from reality".In an article on the
Congress a sinking ship, even senior leaders deserting it: Jaitley
National | Mar 17, 2014, 07:26 PM IST
New Delhi: Terming Congress a “sinking ship”, senior BJP leader Arun Jaitley today said even its senior leaders have decided to desert the party while some are refusing to contest the Lok Sabha elections. “Faced

Rahul invoking Gujarat riots issue for Muslim votes: BJP
National | Mar 17, 2014, 11:38 AM IST
Ahmedabad: Gujarat BJP today sharply reacted over Rahul Gandhi's remark about Narendra Modi's role in 2002 riots saying it was an attempt by the Congress to garner Muslim votes.“Instead of giving answers about their failures
Rahul says, Modi must be held legally accountable for 2002 Gujarat riots
National | Mar 17, 2014, 07:37 AM IST
New Delhi: Hitting out at Narendra Modi, Rahul Gandhi today demanded "legal accountability" for the "clear and inexcusable failure" of governance during the 2002 Gujarat riots and dismissed talk of clean chit to him as
Congress not underdog: Rahul
National | Mar 16, 2014, 05:14 PM IST
New Delhi: An upbeat Rahul Gandhi today rejected the view that the Congress party was an “underdog” or that it faced an “uphill” task in the Lok Sabha polls, affirming that there would be a

Rahul Gandhi to hold rally in Arunachal
National | Mar 16, 2014, 02:14 PM IST
Itanagar: Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi will arrive in Arunachal Pradesh on March 18 to kick start the party's poll campaign for April 9 simultaneous Parliament and Assembly elections in the state. The Congress leader
Congress an 'underdog' in LS polls: Chidambaram
National | Mar 16, 2014, 11:26 AM IST
Chennai: Finance Minister P Chidambaram today admitted that Congress was the “underdog” in the upcoming Lok Sabha elections but averred that in a multi-cornered contest, an underdog too could win several seats. “I know it
Rahul Gandhi promises to address problems of street vendors
National | Mar 16, 2014, 08:59 AM IST
New Delhi: Rahul Gandhi yesterday promised to a group of street vendors that grievances of the community will be addressed and Union Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde will meet them “directly” to listen and settle

Varun Gandhi not to campaign in cousin Rahul's constituency
National | Mar 15, 2014, 10:40 PM IST
Sultanpur (UP): Proving that blood is indeed thicker than water, BJP leader Varun Gandhi today said he would not campaign for his party candidate in cousin Rahul Gandhi's Lok Sabha constituency Amethi.“In every sphere of
Amethi: Kumar Vishwas's cavalcade attacked
National | Mar 15, 2014, 11:02 AM IST
Lucknow: The motorcade of AAP leader Kumar Amethi was attacked late Friday in Uttar Pradesh's Amethi, police said. AAP has blamed the Congress for the attack.Vishwas, a poet-turned-politician, alleged that many Aam Aadmi Party (AAP)
Live updates: Rahul Gandhi says, Congress getting 100 seats is a joke, asks workers not to trust opinion polls
National | Mar 15, 2014, 03:02 PM IST
New Delhi: Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi speaking to Youth Congress workers across the country via Google Hangout today appealed to them not to trust opinion polls. When a Youth Congress workers from Assam asked what

Modi's life dominates publishing space
National | Mar 14, 2014, 02:39 PM IST
New Delhi: BJP prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi's controversial political journey and secretive personal life has provided literary fodder to many authors to write on his "charismatic" personality and "controversial" past and books on him
From tea-stalls to drawing rooms, politics reigns supreme
National | Mar 14, 2014, 10:58 AM IST
New Delhi: Be it a Metro train or a tea stall, drawing rooms to restaurants, market gossip to office banter, politics has undoubtedly become the main topic of social conversation in a politically conscious India.With
Varun not to campaign against cousin Rahul Gandhi
National | Mar 14, 2014, 10:39 AM IST
Lucknow: BJP general secretary Varun Gandhi has ruled out campaigning against his estranged cousin and Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi in Uttar Pradesh's Amethi constituency.The 34-year-old leader, likely to contest on a Bharatiya Janata Party

Rahul to hold video conference with UP leaders
National | Mar 13, 2014, 04:59 PM IST
Lucknow: Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi will interact with party leaders in Uttar Pradesh through video conferencing March 15, a Congress spokesman said Thursday.The Gandhi scion, hard pressed for time owing to his election campaigns
Advani attacks Congress for 'slanderous campaign' against Sangh
National | Mar 13, 2014, 01:04 PM IST
New Delhi: BJP leader L K Advani today quoted Mahatma Gandhi's grandson Rajmohan Gandhi to claim that RSS was not linked to the assassination of Mahatma Gandhi and attacked Congress for mounting a “slanderous campaign”
Hitler's steps inspired Indira's Emergency: Jaitley
National | Mar 13, 2014, 10:55 AM IST
New Delhi: BJP leader Arun Jaitley Wednesday sought to rubbish Rahul Gandhi's comparison of Narendra Modi to Adolf Hitler and alleged that the steps taken by the Nazi leader inspired Indira Gandhi during the Emergency.In
BJP poll committee may decide seats for Modi, Rajnath
National | Mar 13, 2014, 10:38 AM IST
New Delhi: The BJP's central election committee will meet here Thursday amid speculation that the party could take a decision on Lok Sabha seats for prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi and party president Rajnath Singh.While
Uttarakhand CM Rawat compares Sonia, Rahul with gods
India | Mar 13, 2014, 08:34 AM IST
Haridwar: Uttarakhand chief minister Harish Rawat on Wednesday compared Congress president Sonia Gandhi and her son Rahul Gandhi to gods inside a temple. "They are just like gods inside a temple. The priests may change,