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 MoreJaitley said the Congress has used terrorists to defeat “one man” in the state in past three elections in Guajarat.
Gandhi will hold three rallies in Himachal Pradesh - Sirmour, Chamba and Kangra. The state will witness elections on November 9.
Varaccha is considered a stronghold of the Patel (or Patidar) community and was one of the epicentres of the Patidar quota agitation in 2015.
Gujarat will go to polls next month in two phases -- December 9 and 14. The counting of votes will take place on December 18.
The Gandhi scion is also expected to address a rally in Surat at 7 pm today.
Jignesh Mevani said he is ready to hold talks with Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi to know the party's stand on various demands of the Dalit community.
PM Modi will today visit poll-bound Gujarat to attend the silver jubilee function of the Akshardham temple in Gandhinagar.
A massive explosion ripped a boiler at the state-run power giant NTPC's Unchahar plant in Uttar Pradesh's Raebareli district killing 20 people, injuring 100.
India jumped 30 places on the ‘ease of doing business’ ranking that was released by the World Bank on Tuesday.
A girl in Gujarat’s Bharuch made her way to Rahul Gandhi’s van during his roadshow and managed to get a selfie with the Congress vice president.
Targeting Finance Minister Arun Jaitley, Gandhi said the "entire country will shout to say that there is no ease of doing business in India".
"I do exercise -- running, swimming. I am a black belt in Aikido. I keep doing (sports) but I do not talk about it publicly," Rahul had said.
Congress leader Ahmed Patel said that his election to the Rajya Sabha had become an ‘eyesore’ for the BJP.
Rahul Gandhi today said demonetisation and GST have ruined the ease of doing business.
Rahul Gandhi started his three-day campaign tour to south Gujarat with a public rally in Bharuch.
Sonia Gandhi said the liberal, tolerant Indian ethos that Indira Gandhi embodied is being rejected and repudiated.
PM Modi, Manmohan Singh and Congress VP Rahul Gandhi paid tributes to former PM Indira Gandhi on her death anniversary.
Shiv Sena MP Sanjay Raut said there is a substantial change in Rahul Gandhi since 2014 and people like to listen to him now.
Hardik Patel on Monday gave a new deadline to the Congress, asking it to make its stand clear by Novemeber 7 on how it would ensure reservation for the community.
Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi on Monday described demonetisation as an "out and out disaster".
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