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 MoreRahul Gandhi on Thursday raised the issue of Wayanad farmer suicide in Lok Sabha targetting Modi Government. He asked Modi government to fulfil promises he has made to farmers till date.
On his first visit here after losing the Lok Sabha seat, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi Wednesday attributed his defeat to local leaders staying away from the people and assured he will not abandon the constituency, party functionaries said. "I will not leave Amethi. It is my home and family," former state Youth Congress chief Nadeem Ashraf Jayasi quoted Rahul Gandhi as saying at a meeting.
Months after the bitter lobbying for the Rajasthan chief minister's post between him and state Congress chief Sachin Pilot, Ashok Gehlot said he became the CM because he deserved it.
Rahul Gandhi, who has stepped down as Congress President, has amassed 10 million followers on Twitter and the Congress leader is gearing up to celebrate the "milestone" on Wednesday in Amethi, the Lok Sabha seat he lost to BJP leader Smriti Irani by 55,000 votes.
Rahul will visit Amethi today for the first time since he was defeated in his traditional Lok Sabha seat in Uttar Pradesh and will hold a closed-door meeting with party workers.
Dwivedi, who held the all-important position of AICC general secretary (organisation) for over two decades, said convention and norms should be followed in electing a new party president.
Gandhi arrived in Lok Sabha at noon just before the commencement of Zero Hour. At that time Congress leader Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury tried to raise the Karnataka issue and accused the BJP of "poaching" its MLAs in the state.
A court here issued fresh summons to Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday directing him to appear on August 9 in a criminal defamation suit filed against him by a local BJP leader for allegedly calling Union Home Minister Amit Shah a "murder accused".
Rahul Gandhi, who has stepped down as Congress President, will visit Amethi on Wednesday for the first time since he was defeated in his traditional Lok Sabha seat in Uttar Pradesh.
Congress MP Rahul Gandhi will be visiting Amethi on July 10. This will be his first visit to Amethi after losing in the recent Lok Sabha elections.
Rahul's confidants Jyotiraditya Scindia and Milind Deora are the latest to have resigned from their party posts. The two put in their papers on Sunday as AICC general secretary and Mumbai Regional Congress president respectively.
After attending the hearing at the Patna Civil Court, Rahul Gandhi reached a local restaurant in Maurya Lok situated Basant Vihar. When he suddenly came in people present there were amazed to see him.
Union minister and Amethi MP Smriti Irani on Saturday said people of the constituency elected her as their 'Didi' (elder sister) and not an MP, while underlining her resolve to do the best for the region.
Former Congress President Rahul Gandhi appeared in front of Patna court on Saturday in connection with a defamation suit filed against him by BJP leader and Bihar Deputy CM Sushil Kumar Modi. He accused Modi government of targetting anyone who speaks against the government or the RSS.
Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh said that a young leader with a forward looking approach would "galvanise" rank-and-file of the Congress after its defeat in Lok Sabha election 2019. He added that Rahul Gandhi's decision to resign from the post of Congress president was "unfortunate"
Bihar Deputy Chief Minister Sushil Kumar Modi had filed a defamation case against Rahul Gandhi, in wake of remarks made by Gandhi at an election rally in Karnataka's Kolar district. All thieves had the surname Modi, Rahul Gandhi had said, referring to Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The case was referred by CJM Shashikant Roy to ACJM Kumar Gunjan.
The Anubhav Sinha directorial, which revolves around the investigation of a crime, allegedly based on the 2014 Badaun case, is also doing well at the box office, earning Rs 27.68 crore in five days, as per trade analyst Taran Adarsh.
Rahul Gandhi to appear before Patna court tomorrow in connection with a defamation suit filed against him by Bihar Deputy Chief Minister Sushil Kumar Modi.
A defamation case was filed against Congress president Rahul Gandhi. He appeared in Shivdi Court in Mumbai today. Congress workers gathered at the airport today and raised slogans urging him to take back his resignation.
Priyanka Gandhi lent the much-needed support her brother and embattled Congress president Rahul Gandhi needed. In her tweet on Thursday the All India Congress Committee general secretary said that she had "deepest respect' for Rahul Gandhi's decision to quit from the post of Congress president.
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