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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Rahul Gandhi accused him of being a 'bhagidar' (collaborator) in corruption and not a 'chowkidar' and saying people were victims of his 'jumla' strikes.
The minister said the India-France agreement to buy the fighter jets was signed in 2008 by the then defence minister A K Antony and it had the confidentiality clause.
"Let them deny it if they want. He(French President) said that before me.I was there, Anand Sharma and Dr.Manmohan Singh were also there," Rahul Gandhi said while reacting to French govt's reaction.
"Even I did not like it. There is a decorum (that we attach) to the Prime Minister's post. Inside the House, sitting in that seat, he is not Narendra Modi but the Prime Minister of India," she said.
Rahul Gandhi was the talk of the town as he ended his explosive speech in the Lok Sabha on Friday by hugging Narendra Modi.
While Rahul Gandhi impressed everyone with his No Confidence speech, what he did next was amusing for some and shocking for others. Twitter came up with the best bunch of jokes and memes.
While Harsimrat Kaur Badal of Shiromani Akali Dal (an alliance of BJP) termed the entire episode as funny and said, “Rahul Gandhi’s statements have resulted into an earthquake of laughter.”
“You can abuse me, you can call me Pappu, but I don’t have a speck of hatred against you. I will take out this hatred out of you and turn it into love,” Rahul said as he rushed to hug the prime minister.
The Narendra Modi govt on Friday comfortably won the no-confidence motion moved by TDP and other opposition parties in the Lok Sabha.
Modi, who is expected to comfortably sail through the trust vote, also hoped for a constructive and disruption free debate.
The Bharatiya Janata Party's move to pass 'The Right to Information (Amendment) Bill, 2018' "must be opposed by every Indian," Rahul said.
A day after he broke his silence over 'Muslim party' row asserting that he stands with 'exploited, marginalised and the persecuted', Rahul Gandhi posted a 'pop quiz' which apparently targeted PM Modi.
Gandhi, in his letter, expressed solidarity against Jammu and Kashmir government's decision to initiate inquiry for expressing his opinion on the rising incidents of rapes in India.
The first meeting of the new CWC will be held on July 22. This the first CWC formed by the Congress chief after assuming charge of the party.
"The government would like to understand fully the reasons why the bill was not taken up for three years by the UPA government in the Lok Sabha and allowed to lapse," the letter read.
He said when Gandhi says that Congress is the party of the Muslims, it is a breach of trust of the "last person in the last queue with whom Rahul Gandhi claims to be standing with".
BJP leaders believe that a political narrative imbued with its Hindutva agenda will suit the party as it battles anti-incumbency in poll-bound states of Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh and gears up for the next Lok Sabha elections 2019.
An Urdu daily had quoted Rahul Gandhi as saying that Congress is a party of Muslims.
A war of words had erupted over an Urdu daily's report that Rahul, during an interaction with Muslim intellectual last week, had told them that Congress was a party for Muslims.
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