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 MoreHitting back at the Congress leader for his remarks against BJP, Rijiju today claimed that while Saradar Vallabh Bhai Patel solved problems of all other states, Kashmir fell into trouble after Rahul Gandhi's grandfather Jawahar Lal Nehru took over.
Rahul Gandhi had tweeted about the incident tagging the video, and blamed the BJP and RSS for rising atrocities against backward classes.
The three-year Jammu and Kashmir government, wracked by bitter political feuds and worsening security challenges, collapsed on Tuesday with the BJP pulling out of its alliance with the PDP setting the stage for yet another round of governor's rule.
Rahul Gandhi has openly attacked PM Modi in the past months particularly during his campaign for state Assembly elections in Gujarat and Karnataka.
While in both Uttrakhand and Madhya Pradesh, the incumbent government is BJP, the main opposition party remains Congress. In this scenario, an announcement to go solo by Samajwadi Party raises doubts about Akhilesh Yadav's intentions to maintain ties with Congress.
Jameel was shot at in Gorakhpur on Sunday night and is now admitted at the King George Medical University trauma centre in Lucknow.
Criticising the government, Rahul Gandhi said that the foreign policy of the country has become one about "photo ops" and "no agenda meetings".
"Did you see the PM's fitness video? It is ridiculous... I mean... It is bizarre... This is bankruptcy," Rahul Gandhi said as he poked fun at the video put out by the prime minister.
Taking to Facebook in a post titled, "Is Congress Becoming Ideologyless? Is Anti-Modism its only ideology?", Jaitley slammed the nearly 120-year-old party, saying that it has become 'ideologyless'.
Mukherjee, whose acceptance of the RSS invite became a matter of big controversy, greeted those present at the function as he moved among the guests.
This is the first Iftar party being organised by Rahul Gandhi as Congress President.
Rahul Gandhi also alleged that present Narendra Modi government is working for the rich of the country.
"If Rahul Gandhi is seriously interested in the upliftment of OBC community then he must answer that whether he is ready to give them constitutional status or not?" asked BJP MP Ram Kripal.
Referring to senior BJP leaders Atal Bihari Vajpayee, LK Advani and Jaswant Singh, the Gandhi scion tweeted a video, taking a dig at the prime minister.
Targeting Modi, Rahul alleged that the prime minister has not treated his "guru" Advani well after becoming the prime minister of the country.
Targeting Modi, Rahul alleged that the prime minister did not treat his "guru" Advani well after becoming the prime minister of the country.
A Bhiwandi court on Tuesday framed charges against Rahul Gandhi in a defamation case filed against him by a RSS worker in 2014.
Gandhi, who appeared before a court in Bhiwandi town here in connection with a defamation case filed against him by a Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) worker.
Case was filed following Gandhi's utterances at a rally in Thane in March 2014 in which he had accused the RSS of killing Mahatma Gandhi, the Father of the Nation.
The case was filed following Rahul Gandhi's utterances at a rally in Thane in March 2014 in which he had accused the RSS of killing Mahatma Gandhi, the Father of the Nation.
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