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 MoreRahul escaped unhurt after some unidentified persons threw a stone at the car in which he was travelling, breaking the glass pane of the rear window of the vehicle.
On Friday, Rahul had faced hostile black-flag waving crowds shouting slogans in favour of Prime Minister Narendra Modi during his tour of flood hit Dhanera town in Gujarat's Banaskantha district, forcing him to beat a retreat.
“Attack on me was carried out by the BJP, RSS people. This is their, and PM Modi’s, way of politics,” Rahul Gandhi said.
Gujarat Chief Minister Vijay Rupani hit out at Rahul Gandhi saying ‘people know the tricks of the Congress rather too well’.
Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi's car was also pelted with stones, shattering some windows.
During the visit, Gandhi is scheduled to take a tour of Banaskantha and Patan districts, which are the worst affected regions in the recent floods in the state in 70 years.
Rahul Gandhi also accused Prime Minister Narendra Modi of overlooking the corruption of the BJP Chief Ministers.
After talking to the former deputy Prime Minister for nearly five minutes, Rahul was also seen talking to Union minister Ramdas Athawale. Then the Congress leader went upto his mother Congress president Sonia Gandhi and talked to her for a while.
Rahul said that Kumar has betrayed the Congress Bihar’s interest. The Congress scion even charged Kumar of not keeping him in loop before taking the decision.
According to media reports, Nitish nudged Rahul to take on corruption charges against Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) chief Lalu Prasad Yadav and his family, particularly his son Tejashwi Yadav
Smriti Irani hit back at Rahul for drawing a parallel between the PM and Adolf Hitler, saying there were "no prizes for guessing" who was inspired by the dictator and imposed the Emergency.
Kumar's meeting with Rahul comes days after Sonia spoke to the Bihar CM and Lalu Prasad in an effort to prevent a collapse of the ruling coalition.
Nitish Kumar is set to meet Rahul Gandhi at 4 p.m. to discuss the present political situation in Bihar.
Attacking Modi on demonetisation and for not listening to the farmers, Gandhi said, "The emperor is completely naked, but nobody around him has the courage to tell it to him."
Hitting out at Gandhi, Union minister Ravi Shankar Prasad said many problems of Jammu and Kashmir are the legacy of the Congress and its role in creating complications in the state is "too well known".
“I have been saying it for a long time that wrong policies of Narendra Modi and NDA have burnt Kashmir,” Rahul Gandhi said.
Rahul Gandhi today claimed that the GST was rolled out in a hurry to "impress" the world, ignoring the interests of small businessmen in the country.
Congress leaders today deliberated on a strategy for the Monsoon session of Parliament during which the party is likely to raise a host of issues.
Gandhi has stepped up his attack on the BJP and has been vociferously criticising the Modi government's policies.
Rahul remarked that the government is looking for a math tutor and those interested should apply to the PMO at the earliest.
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