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 MoreCongress president Rahul Gandhi also accused him of playing in the hands of select industrialists.
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.
"The streets are flooded, citizens stranded, bridges collapsing...Civic governance has collapsed. My thoughts are with the citizens of Mumbai. Stay safe!" Gandhi tweeted.
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: 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.
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.
The minor was abducted while she was waiting for her father outside her school on Tuesday (June 26).
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”.
“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.
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.
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.
He also said that "dynastic" Congress under Gandhi was not good for democracy.
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.
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 campaign started by the 30-year old idol maker Muktikanta Biswal.
The veteran Congress leader termed Jaitley's remark as 'laughable and absurd' while asserting that his party has always 'stoutly opposed' Maoists and jehadists.
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.
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 hit out at the government after Union Minister Arun Jaitley announced that Chief Economic Advisor Arvind Subramanian was leaving the Finance Ministry.
Kamal said that it was a 'formal courtesy meeting'.
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