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Rahul Gandhi

Rahul Gandhi

Height: 1.71 m DOB: 19 June 1970

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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'Bullet train' like a 'magic train' which may not materialise: Rahul takes a jibe at PM Modi's dream project

Politics | Jul 04, 2018, 07:45 PM IST

Congress president Rahul Gandhi also accused him of playing in the hands of select industrialists.

Rahul Gandhi, Amethi

'Narendra Modi siding with elite, while farmers, traders suffer,' says Rahul Gandhi in Amethi

Politics | Jul 04, 2018, 04:54 PM IST

Gandhi also alleged that the RSS saw people through the prism of religion and caste. The Congress party considers everyone as human being, he clarified.

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'Civic governance has collapsed in Mumbai': Rahul Gandhi on Andheri road overbridge collapse

India | Jul 03, 2018, 07:52 PM IST

"The streets are flooded, citizens stranded, bridges collapsing...Civic governance has collapsed. My thoughts are with the citizens of Mumbai. Stay safe!" Gandhi tweeted.

Rahul Gandhi and Amit Shah wil kick off election campaign

Mission 2019: Amit Shah, Rahul Gandhi to kick off campaign blitzkrieg in Uttar Pradesh from July 4

India | Jul 03, 2018, 10:08 AM IST

  While Congress president Rahul Gandhi will be on a two-day visit to his parliamentary constituency Amethi from July 4, during which he is likely to meet party workers and attend several programmes, BJP president Amit Shah will be in Varanasi, Mirzapur and Agra on the same dates.  

Lok Sabha elections 2019

Lok Sabha elections 2019: BJP, Congress presidents target UP

Jul 02, 2018, 06:55 PM IST

Lok Sabha elections 2019: From July 4, Congress president Rahul Gandhi will be on a two-day visit to his parliamentary constituency Amethi. During the same time, BJP president Amit Shah will be in Varanasi, Mirzapur and Agra.   

Arun Jaitley

Rahul Gandhi's single slab GST idea flawed: Arun Jaitley

India | Jul 01, 2018, 11:20 PM IST

Jaitley added while there would be scope to merge some of the mid-category tax slabs depending on the collections going up, but a single-slab system will not work for India.

Rahul Gandhi

Mandsaur rape: Brutality that an 8-yr-old was subjected to sickens me, says Rahul Gandhi

India | Jun 30, 2018, 02:09 PM IST

The minor was abducted while she was waiting for her father outside her school on Tuesday (June 26).

Rahul Gandhi- File photo

Rahul Gandhi mocks PM Modi over ‘black money’ after 50% rise in Swiss bank deposits by Indians

India | Jun 29, 2018, 05:25 PM IST

Rahul Gandhi reminded PM Modi that he had promised to bring back all illegal money stashed abroad and “deposit Rs 15 lakh in each Indian bank account”.

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'Even children know importance of trees:' Rahul hits out at BJP, AAP over redevelopment project in Delhi

India | Jun 28, 2018, 04:46 PM IST

“Even children know that trees are critical to our survival and difficult to replace. Stand with the Congress and together let's fight this madness,” Gandhi said.

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The Accidental Prime Minister: Introducing reel life Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi

Bollywood | Jun 28, 2018, 06:25 AM IST

The Accidental Prime Minister: Arjun Mathur and Aahana Kumra are playing the roles of Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi respectively in the upcoming Anupam Kher film.

Rahul Gandhi

Security threat: Congress president Rahul Gandhi advised to do less number of roadshows

India | Jun 27, 2018, 07:40 AM IST

The ministry specified that as Prime Minister Modi is the most valuable target in the run-up to the 2019 general elections, there has been an ‘all-time high’ threat to him.

Kumar said the people should not forget the

Union Minister Ananth Kumar slams Rahul Gandhi, says parliament business getting affected due to his 'inexperience'

India | Jun 26, 2018, 09:48 PM IST

He also said that "dynastic" Congress under Gandhi was not good for democracy.

Rahul took to Twitter to highlight that India's has been

While PM tiptoes around garden, India leads Afghanistan, Syria in violence against women: Rahul Gandhi

India | Jun 26, 2018, 05:56 PM IST

Taking a sharp dig at PM Modi's fitness video that he released a few days ago, Rahul Gandhi said that while the PM is busy in maintaining his health, safety of women continues to be a cause of worry.

 
The Congress added that instead of doing

Congress hits back at Amit Shah over his remark on Rahul Gandhi, accuse him of 'shedding crocodile tears'

India | Jun 23, 2018, 10:43 PM IST

In a statement, Congress spokesperson Randeep Singh Surjewala said Amit Shah had no business to lecture the Congress on nationalism and that the BJP would never be able to realise the hard work which the UPA did to usher peace in Jammu and Kashmir.

The Congress President was referring to the unique protest

Rahul Gandhi lashes out at PM Modi over his 'April's Fool prank' of construction of hospital in Odisha

India | Jun 23, 2018, 09:09 PM IST

The Congress President was referring to the unique protest campaign started by the 30-year old idol maker Muktikanta Biswal.

Former Finance Minister P Chidambaram

Chidambaram slams Jaitley for labelling Rahul Gandhi 'Maoist sympathiser' in his blog

India | Jun 23, 2018, 03:06 PM IST

 The veteran Congress leader termed Jaitley's remark as 'laughable and absurd' while asserting that his party has always 'stoutly opposed' Maoists and jehadists.

Rahul Gandhi

BJP MP Saroj Pandey calls Congress president Rahul Gandhi 'mand-buddhi': Here's why

India | Jun 22, 2018, 11:25 AM IST

Interestingly Rahul Gandhi who took over as the president of the grand old party in December 2017, is seen by many as the PM candidate against Narendra Modi in the 2019 general elections.

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Haasan meets Sonia Gandhi, says 'too early to decide' on support to Congress in 2019 Lok Sabha polls

Politics | Jun 21, 2018, 04:08 PM IST

On whether he would support the Congress in its endeavour to bring opposition parties together on one platform to defeat the BJP in the 2019 Lok Sabh polls, Haasan said, "It is to early to decide."

Rahul Gandhi

Brightest fleeing ‘sinking ship’ as ‘invisible hand’ of RSS steering it into rocks: Rahul Gandhi

India | Jun 20, 2018, 09:29 PM IST

Rahul hit out at the government after Union Minister Arun Jaitley announced that Chief Economic Advisor Arvind Subramanian was leaving the Finance Ministry.

The two leaders also spoke about about the current

Kamal Haasan, Rahul Gandhi meet in New Delhi, discuss political situation in Tamil Nadu

India | Jun 20, 2018, 06:15 PM IST

Kamal said that it was a 'formal courtesy meeting'.

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