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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.

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
Nobody will believe Rahul Gandhi is against dynasty concept: Arun Jaitley
National | Jan 28, 2014, 02:13 PM IST
New Delhi: Senior BJP leader Arun Jaitley today lashed out at Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi for his assertion that he was against the concept of dynasty in politics. Writing in his blog, Jaitley said: "The
Not my job to punish ministers: Rahul Gandhi
National | Jan 28, 2014, 11:33 AM IST
New Delhi: Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi Monday said that it is not his job to ensure that cases are lodged against the party ministers accused of corruption.In an interview to Times Now, Gandhi acknowledged

Jains accorded minority status by Centre
India | Jan 27, 2014, 10:54 PM IST
New Delhi: The Jain community today became the sixth religious group accorded with the minority status following a notification issued by the Centre.The government had decided in a Cabinet meeting on January 20 to give
Congress will defeat BJP in LS polls: Rahul Gandhi
National | Jan 27, 2014, 10:49 PM IST
New Delhi: Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi thinks his party will defeat the BJP in the 2014 Lok Sabha elections.In an interview to Times Now news channel, Rahul Gandhi said: "I think we will defeat
Rahul veiled PM candidate of Congress: Jaitley
National | Jan 27, 2014, 08:15 PM IST
New Delhi: BJP leader Arun Jaitley Monday called Rahul Gandhi Congress' prime ministerial candidate in "purdah" (veil), questioning why the party's campaign centres around him even when he is not the official candidate for the
Rahul Gandhi meets kin of Uttarakhand tragedy victims
India | Jan 27, 2014, 10:17 AM IST
New Delhi: Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi yesterday met the family members of the victims of last year's Uttarakhand flash flood tragedy here. The youth Congress, engaged in relief and rehabilitation work in the region,
'Mein Nahin Hum' slogan used by our councillor in 2010: Congress
National | Jan 25, 2014, 10:58 PM IST
New Delhi: Hitting back at the BJP over its allegation that the ruling party “copied” Narendra Modi's ad blitz at a BJP convention in 2011, Congress today came out with a video clip claiming that