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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 Gandhi listens to tribal women party workers in Jharkhand
India | Feb 07, 2014, 12:46 PM IST
Ranchi: Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi today interacted with tribal women party workers here as part of his nationwide tour to hear out people before preparing an election manifesto for the Lok Sabha elections. The Gandhi
Rahul to visit Gujarat
National | Feb 06, 2014, 07:08 PM IST
Ahmedabad: Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi will Saturday visit Gujarat and tour the historic Bardoli region where a 'satyagraha' by farmers was led by Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel in 1928, party leaders said Thursday.Gandhi will also
Stop naming Modi as chaiwallah, Rahul Gandhi tells Congress
National | Feb 06, 2014, 10:50 PM IST
New Delhi: Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi today clearly told party leaders not to portray Narendra Modi as chaiwallah in future. At a meeting with party spokespersons, Rahul Gandhi asked the leaders not to step

Rahul Gandhi would be a misfit as PM: Badal
National | Feb 06, 2014, 06:03 PM IST
New Delhi: Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal today said Rahul Gandhi would be a "complete misfit" as Prime Minister because he was unaware of the basics of agriculture and village life of the majority
Rahul Gandhi promotes young face Hasiba Amin as NSUI secretary
National | Feb 05, 2014, 08:18 AM IST
New Delhi: Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi has promoted the "young face of Congress" Hasiba Amin as the national secretary of National Students Union of India, the students wing of the party. Till now, she was
Rahul Gandhi to hold road show in Jharkhand on Feb 7
National | Feb 03, 2014, 11:43 PM IST
Ranchi: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi would reach out to the people of Jharkhand through road shows on a 75-km stretch between Hazaribagh and Ranchi on February seven."Rahulji will reach Hazaribagh on Friday, from where he

Congress activists protest outside Kejriwal's house
National | Feb 03, 2014, 11:43 PM IST
New Delhi: Protesting against inclusion of Kapil Sibal's name in “corrupt politicians” list released by AAP, scores of Congress activists today held a protest outside Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal's official residence on Tilak Lane.Activists,
Kejriwal told Pak journalists: Congress supported to trap us, now they are themselves trapped
India | Feb 03, 2014, 06:47 AM IST
New Delhi: Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal told a delegation of Pakistani journalists that he has not studied India's relations with Pakistan, and he would prefer the Centre to respond on such issues. Kejriwal went
Rahul Gandhi to hold rallies in Odisha next week
India | Feb 02, 2014, 10:36 PM IST
Bhubaneswar: Ahead of the maiden rally by BJP's Prime Ministerial candidate Narendra Modi here on February 11, Congress has planned a two-day Odisha visit by its vice-president and campaign committee chief Rahul Gandhi. While Gandhi

It is Congress which sows and spews poison, retorts Modi
India | Feb 02, 2014, 06:37 PM IST
Meerut(UP): Narendra Modi today hit back at Sonia Gandhi over her ‘zeher ki kheti' barb saying it is the Congress which spews poison and reaps the harvest out of it with its divisive politics.“Sonia Gandhi
Will strive to take all groups along: Selja
National | Feb 02, 2014, 04:36 PM IST
Hisar (Haryana): With infighting in Haryana Congress often coming to the fore in the past, former Union Minister Kumari Selja, who has been elected to Rajya Sabha, today said she would strive to take along
Odisha Congress plans Rahul's visit ahead of Modi's rally
India | Feb 01, 2014, 01:30 PM IST
Bhubaneswar: Ahead of the maiden rally by BJP's Prime Ministerial candidate Narendra Modi on February 11, the AICC has planned a two-day visit by its vice-president and campaign committee chief Rahul Gandhi.While Gandhi is likely

1984 riots: US based Sikhs group to subpoena Rahul Gandhi in court
India | Jan 30, 2014, 09:52 PM IST
New Delhi: Sikhs for Justice, a Sikhs right group that had file a human rights violation case on Sonia Gandhi has said that it will subpoena Rahul Gandhi in court.The move came after Rahul Gandhi
Cabinet approves hike in LPG cylinder cap from 9 to 12
India | Jan 30, 2014, 05:04 PM IST
New Delhi: The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs raised the quota of subsidized LPG cylinder from 9 to 12 per household annually.With Lok Sabha polls due in 2014, the Congress Vice President, Rahul Gandhi who
Read what Rahul Gandhi exactly said on 1984 riots that has infuriated Sikh community
National | Feb 12, 2014, 06:57 AM IST
New Delhi: Rahul Gandhi's refusal to apologise for the 1984 anti-Sikh riots in Delhi right under the nose of Congress government headed by Rajiv Gandhi has angered the entire Sikh community especially the families of

Rahul's 1984 remarks: Sikhs protest outside AICC office in Delhi
National | Jan 30, 2014, 12:32 PM IST
New Delhi: Sikh organizations today staged a protest outside AICC office against Rahul Gandhi's refusal to apologise for 1984 anti-Sikh riots. In an interview to an English channel, Rahul Gandhi was asked whether he would
Rahul should be more mature in approach: Ramdev
National | Jan 29, 2014, 06:52 PM IST
Jaipur: Holding that 2002 Gujarat riots is no longer a poll issue, Yoga guru Swami Ramdev today said Rahul Gandhi had raised old matters which have no significance in the present and he needs to
Rahul Gandhi's claims of rooting out corruption 'hollow': Vishwas
National | Jan 28, 2014, 11:15 PM IST
Amethi: Aam Aadmi Party leader Kumar Vishwas today said Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi's claims of rooting out corruption was “hollow”.Vishwas, who is likely to contest the upcoming Lok Sabha polls from the Amethi segment, also
Rahul is the Congress 'candidate in purdah', says Jaitley
National | Jan 28, 2014, 04:35 PM IST
New Delhi: Taking a dig at Rahul Gandhi and the Congress poll campaign centered around its “candidate in purdah”, BJP has said advertising can market a marketable product and not otherwise.Questioning the Congress poll campaign
Rahul is a failure while Kejriwal is a turncoat: Ramdev
National | Jan 28, 2014, 05:18 PM IST
Panaji: I would have engineered an AAP-BJP coalition in Delhi had Arvind Kejriwal come to me for advice, yoga guru Baba Ramdev said Tuesday.Ramdev, who was addressing a press conference here, said Modi was the