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 MoreGujarat Chief Minister Vijay Rupani visited the Khodaldham temple immediately after Gandhi’s visit and held talks with Nareshbhai Patel.
The poster congratulates Rahul Gandhi on being elected as the president of the Congress party and claims that he has been blessed by all the gods.
Mani Shanker Aiyar has this knack of making a funny remark at the wrong time. He sought to compare Rahul's ascension with Aurangzeb.
Rahul Gandhi, who has been attacking the prime minister over various issues in "a question a day" series on Twitter, even tweeted a Hindi couplet and demanded answers from him for "unfulfilled promises" made by Modi-led Bharatiya Janata Party.
Congress leaders said that Rahul's ascent to the top will help the party regain the lost glory after a string of electoral reverses.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday slammed Rahul Gandhi’s expected elevation as Congress President, dubbing it as “Aurangzeb Raj”.
Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi on Monday filed his nomination papers for the post of President of the party.
He was accompanied by top Congress leaders including Sonia Gandhi, Manmohan Singh, Ghulam Nabi Azad, A K Antony and Ahmed Patel.
Monday is the last date for filing of nominations and no one else has filed papers till today, according to Mullapally Ramachandran, the chairman of the party's Central Election Authority.
He also equated his treatment at the hands of the Congress to the what he called, the insult of Sardar Patel by the then Congress leadership.
Mocking the Congress over the upcoming election of its president, Prime Minister Narendra Modi today alleged the party had a history of rigging organisational polls.
Manmohan Singh had even said that the NDA government failed to understand the "pains" of his note ban and GST decisions were going to unleash on the people of his own home state.
Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on Saturday said that BJP has always been a pro-Hindutva party, asserting that those parading their newfound Hindu piety were nothing but “clones”.
"Expensive fees are becoming burden on students. How will the dream of New India come true?," Rahul Gandhi asked.
Uttar Pradesh CM Yogi Adityanath lauded the BJP workers who ‘worked to communicate the party agenda of development to all’.
Can a Hawai chappal (slipper) and a BMW car be taxed at the same rate, asked Jaitley
Unfazed by the Somnath temple controversy, Rahul visited Gadhdha Swaminarayan temple where he offered prayers. A row erupted yesterday after Gandhi's name was found written in the entry register meant for non-Hindus at the famous shrine.
The question is: who was responsible for this faux pas during elections? Naturally, neither Rahul nor Ahmed Patel would have committed such an error.
Gandhi, who began his 'one question a day' series on Wednesday with the BJP's promises in the last polls, today focused on Gujarat's debt burden.
The entire controversy arose when Rahul Gandhi on his visit to the famous Gujarat's Somnath temple, allegedly mentioned himself as a 'non-Hindu' on the temple register.
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