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.
Read More"This is simply vindictive and vendetta politics. There is no acceptable reason to remove the SPG (Special Protection Group) protection from Congress President Sonia Gandhi, Lok Sabha member Rahul Gandhi and party General Secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra," Tripura Pradesh Congress ad-hoc committee Chairman Pijush Kanti Biswas said
Slamming news reports of Government revoking SPG security for Gandhi Family, Congress party today reminded that the country paid the price when Rajiv Gandhi's security was withdrawn. "When Rajiv Gandhi's security was withdrawn by the VP Singh government, the country paid a price," said KC Venugopal during a press conference.
It will be after 28 years that Gandhis will be without a SPG (Special Protection Group) cover. Sonia Gandhi, Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi Vadra will no more be protected by the elite SPG commandos.
Only Prime Minister Narendra Modi will get SPG security now on. Gandhis have been stripped off the Special Protection Group security. Sonia Gandhi, Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi Vadra will no more enjoy SPG protection. They will be now be guarded by CRPF Z+ security cover.
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday took a jibe at Prime Minister Narendra Modi over "unemployment rate."
Shukla, who also holds the portfolio of rural development, said posters of former Congress president and party general secretary adorn walls of that country.
Former Congress President Rahul Gandhi has once again gone abroad, with a source saying he is travelling to Indonesia.
The boy fell into the borewell at about 5.30 p.m on Friday in Tamil Nadu's Tiruchirappalli district. He got stuck at 30 feet. Later, he went further down and got stuck at about 100 feet.
In Haryana, Congress did an impressive performance, forcing the Bharatiya Janata Party to see a hung Assembly while in Maharashtra, the Congress improved its performance.
Former Congress chief Rahul Gandhi here on Wednesday took a swipe over the proposed merger of loss-making BSNL and MTNL saying it was a government ploy to first merge and then sell it cheaply to the crony capitalist.
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Sunday hit out at Union minister Piyush Goyal for his remarks that Nobel laureate Abhijit Banerjee is "Left-leaning", saying "these bigots are blinded by hatred" and have no idea what a professional is.
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi's chopper made an emergency landing in Rewari's KLP College due to bad weather. He was on his way to Delhi from Mahendragarh after addressing an election rally.
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi alleged on Friday that the government is "clueless" about the economy and said Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman should "steal" ideas from his party's Lok Sabha poll manifesto to tackle the "mess".
Rahul Gandhi has had the internet obsessing over him -- yet again.
He said that Prime Minister Narendra Modi ridiculed his predecessor Manmohan Singh, mocked the Congress everywhere and even alleged that India achieved nothing in 70 years.
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Sunday raked up the Rafale deal issue to target the BJP government, days after Defence Minister Rajnath Singh received the first fighter jet from France.
Addressing a poll rally in Umarkhed, Adityanath said Prime Minister Narendra Modi was committed to elimination of terrorism. Praising Modi and Union Home Minister Amit Shah for the abrogation of Article 370 in Jammu and Kashmir, he said the duo has established the concept of 'Ek Bharat, Shreshtha Bharat' (One India, Superior India) through the move.
Attacking the BJP government in the centre and state over "massive unemployment", Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Sunday said the "Made in China" policy is killing jobs of Indian youth.
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Friday pleaded not guilty in a criminal defamation suit filed against him for calling Union Home Minister Amit Shah a "murder accused".
Mumbai Congress chief Eknath Gaikwad said Gandhi will address a rally at Dharavi here on Sunday evening
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