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.
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Though he was defeated on home turf Amethi to BJP's Smriti Irani, Congress President Rahul Gandhi will again contest from the seat in the 2024 Lok Sabha elections, a party leader said.
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The reality of Lok Sabha election result 2019 is yet to sink in for the Congress party and its president Rahul Gandhi. Rahul Gandhi's loss in family bastion Amethi has come as final knock for him.
Out of total 80 seats in Uttar Pradesh, Congress managed to bag only the Rae Bareli parliamentary seat of Sonia Gandhi.
Top Congress leaders will deliberate on party losses at a meeting of the working committee slated on Saturday where party chief is speculated to make this move.
Top party leaders, including UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi and former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, are expected to attend the meeting.
Vadra, brother-in-law of Congress President Rahul Gandhi, was granted anticipatory bail by a trial court here on April 1.
According to the Election Commission website, Irani polled 4,68,514 votes while Gandhi secured 4,13,394 votes in Amethi.
PM Modi on Thursday led the BJP to a stunning victory in the Lok Sabha battle, with the ruling party itself set to win over 300 seats in a marked improvement over its 2014 showing that left the opposition dazed and demoralised.
This is a difficult hour for thousands of Congress party workers as PM Modi-led BJP has stormed to power decimating the Grand old Party in almost majority of India in elections 2019. Modi’s style, charisma and development pitch just uprooted all caste arithmetic as many Congress and Opposition leaders faced humiliating defeat. Rahul Gandhi’s defeat in Amethi is nothing but the last nail in an already bleeding party. For the party to regroup and rise, it needs to realise and accept the mistakes. Brand Modi has literally shattered all caste arithmetic and dynasty blocs.
With counting of votes reaching its last round in Kerala, the Congress and its United Democratic Front (UDF) were poised to grab 19 of the 20 seats, leaving only one seat to the ruling Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M).
Even as the counting was underway in all the seven seats till late evening, the BJP had secured more than 56 per cent of votes, more than the combined vote share of the Congress (22.4 per cent) and the AAP (18.4 per cent).
Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder on Thursday trashed criticism of the Congress president after the party's Lok Sabha defeat, saying he has worked closely with Rahul Gandhi and found him to be a "fine leader".
All the political prowess they inherited seems to have been rendered ineffective as sons of famous politician fathers headed towards a debacle in the 17th Lok Sabha elections.
There is a long list of upsets in the Lok Sabha election 2019 sojourn, where prolific leaders have not lived up to their names. Off the top of our head is Congress chief Rahul Gandhi.
Union Minister Smriti Irani is leading in Amethi constituency against Congress President Rahul Gandhi.
Congress chief Rahul Gandhi, staring at the face of defeat in his family bastion Amethi and in India, has humbly accepted defeat. In a televised press conference on Thursday evening, he said he did not want to discuss the possible reasons of the defeat because "the people of India have already decided".
Rajasthan's chief minister Ashok Gehlot has acknowledged defeat in the Lok Sabha polls.
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