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 said when I faced abuse day after day, your (people of Wayanad) unconditional love protected me. You were my refuge, my home and my family. I never felt for even a moment that you doubted me.
NEET-UG exam paper leak: Congress leader said that he wants to speak with 24 lakh students who have suffered due to NEET paper leak. Congress also staged protests across nation over the alleged irregularities and demanded the resignation of Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan.
In a shift from earlier practice, the National Eligibility Test (NET) was conducted in pen-and-paper mode this time on a single day — June 18 — with a record 11 lakh students registering for the exam.
This is the second time when Athawale has wished Rahul Gandhi with a pinch of humour. His remark drew mixed reactions on social media.
On his 54th birthday, the Congress leader along with his sister and Congress General Secretary Priyanka Gandhi visited party headquarters in Delhi.
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi turns 54 on June 19, 2024. Born into a prominent political family, his early education was at The Doon School, followed by studies in Florida and Cambridge. Rahul entered politics in 2004, winning the Amethi seat.
The I.N.D.I.A bloc has described the stock market crash after Lok Sabha election results as "biggest stock market scam" with retail investors losing Rs 30 lakh crore. The stock market had soared after the Exit polls predicted landslide victory for BJP-led NDA but the result turned out differently.
52-year-old Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, whose name did the rounds as the Congress candidate for Amethi, Rae Bareli as well as Varanasi parliamentary seats before the Lok Sabha elections 2024, is finally set to begin her innings in electoral politics from Wayanad in Kerala.
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi criticized Prime Minister Narendra Modi for his silence on the NEET-UG row. He said, will raise the issue in Parliament.
To me, the entire EVM issue is one in which one goes on raising doubts and questions, and telling lies, and the sole objective seems to create doubts in the minds of people. The funny part here is, that Elon Musk raised questions about EVMs being used in a primary election in Puerto Rico, USA.
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi will retain the Rae Bareli Lok Sabha constituency in Uttar Pradesh and vacate his Wayanad seat in Kerala from where his sister Priyanka Gandhi Vadra will make her electoral debut.
Rahul Gandhi had won from Wayanad and Rae Bareli Lok Sabha constituencies and he has to vacate one of the seats within 14 days of the Lok Sabha results, which came out on June 4.
Gandhi's X post marked as the return of EVMs debate in the political circles. The opposition parties have been raising concerns over EVMs for some time now. They had demanded a 100 per cent count of the VVPAT slips which was not allowed.
It was claimed that Rahul Gandhi posed with the CISF constable who allegedly slapped actor-politician Kangana Ranaut. The claim turned out to be false.
Rahul Gandhi won both Rae Bareli and Wayanad by a margin of 3,90,030 and 3,64,422 votes respectively. The Congress leader is yet to decide which seat he will represent as MP.
Fact Check: A video of Congress leader Rahul Gandhi watching PM Modi taking oath as the Indian Prime Minister for the third time is going viral on social media. However, the truth is something else.
After the Congress clinched both the seats of Amethi and Raebareli, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi Vadra held a thanks-giving program in UP's Raebareli. They also credited unity between Samajwadi Party and Congress for the win.
The alliance between Congress and Aam Aadmi Party under the INDIA bloc may break ahead of the upcoming Assembly election in Haryana. Both the parties are also not likely to contest together in Delhi next year.
The Congress party won election from both the Lok Sabha seats including Rae Bareli and Amethi. The two constituencies have remained a stronghold of the Grand Old Party for long, however, in 2019, BJP's Smriti Irani defeated Rahul Gandhi but in this election, Congress reclaimed the seat.
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