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Rahul Gandhi

Rahul Gandhi

Height: 1.71 m DOB: 19 June 1970

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.

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Please consider your track record: FM on 'Fair & Lovely' jibe

Politics | Mar 09, 2016, 07:25 AM IST

New Delhi: Finance Minister Arun Jaitley today led a strong counter in the Rajya Sabha against the Congress' jibes on the black money window announced as part of the budget, saying it was not an

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'My pressure worked': Rahul seeks credit for EPF tax rollback

Politics | Mar 08, 2016, 06:54 PM IST

New Delhi: Congress Vice-President Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday sought credit for the government's rollback of proposed move to tax EPF withdrawals. In a series of tweets, Gandhi said the government was “forced” to listen to

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Modi government muzzling voice of poor: Rahul Gandhi

Politics | Mar 07, 2016, 08:48 PM IST

New Delhi: Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi today accused the Narendra Modi government of muzzling the voice of the poor, tribals and the underprivileged."Tribals from Bastar and other areas of Chhattisgarh came to see me.

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It's only 'champagne liberals' who talk about intolerance: Anupam Kher

Hollywood | Mar 08, 2016, 08:05 PM IST

Kolkata: Only the rich and the famous are talking of intolerance, there is no debate on the issue, actor Anupam Kher on Saturday claimed."This is no debate. The rich and the famous are talking of intolerance.

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Arun Jaitley attacks Rahul for sympathising with those who want to "break India"

Politics | Mar 06, 2016, 04:25 PM IST

Vrindavan: Finance Minister Arun Jaitley today launched a stinging attack on Rahul Gandhi for voicing "sympathies" for "those who raised slogans for breaking up India" and said it was the Congress vice president's "ideological hollowness"

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Opposition marketing tolerance as they lack issues: Anupam Kher

Politics | Mar 07, 2016, 09:57 AM IST

Kolkata: Bollywood actor Anupam Kher has accused the opposition of ‘marketing' the tolerance-intolerance debate as they lacked issues and were unable to stomach their defeat in the Lok Sabha polls."This is a no debate. The

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Rahul claims to be youth leader but is close to 50: Smirti Irani

Politics | Mar 06, 2016, 07:24 AM IST

Vrindavan: Without naming Rahul Gandhi, HRD Minister Smriti Irani on saturday attacked him saying he goes around claiming to be a youth leader while being close to 50 years of age.  "There is a leader

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BJP can't be allowed to play with JNU students' future: Rahul Gandhi

Politics | Mar 05, 2016, 09:27 PM IST

Borghat (Assam): Congress Vice-president Rahul Gandhi today said BJP cannot be allowed to play with the future of 8000 students of JNU and his party is with them.  "There are eight thousand students in JNU

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Narendra Modi works for industrialists, taxes salaried class: Rahul Gandhi

Politics | Mar 05, 2016, 05:44 PM IST

Borghat (Assam): Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi today accused Prime Minister Narendra Modi of promoting the interest of a few select industrialists and "those with black money", while imposing tax on life-long savings of the

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Congress should be ashamed of Rahul's JNU visit: Amit Shah

Politics | Mar 06, 2016, 10:17 AM IST

Mathura: BJP president Amit Shah today launched a scathing attack on Congress and its vice President Rahul Gandhi over JNU row and said that the party should be ashamed its vice-president's visit to the university.Shah asked

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BJP's marketing is better than Congress: Rahul Gandhi

Politics | Mar 05, 2016, 07:21 AM IST

Guwahati: Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi on Friday accused Prime Minister Narendra Modi of launching personal attacks at him in his speech in the Lok Sabha and said people of Assam will send BJP packing

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'Achhe din' will come only after 2019, says Rahul Gandhi

Politics | Mar 04, 2016, 04:32 PM IST

Silchar: Slamming the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) government at the Centre, Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi today said "achhe din" will come only after 2019 and that the Congress is already working for it."Now,

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'Fair and Lovely' remark: BJP to move notice against Rahul Gandhi

Politics | Mar 04, 2016, 11:48 AM IST

New Delhi: Bharatiya Janata Party will move a notice against Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi for using 'racist' fair and lovely remark in his speech in the Lok Sabha."Rahul Gandhi mocked the disclosure scheme of

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Did Rahul copy 'Fair & Lovely' jibe from Ram Jethmalani?

Politics | Mar 03, 2016, 05:30 PM IST

New Delhi: Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi had yesterday led an aggressive charge over the ruling government over a host of issues. However, the one comment that garnered utmost public attention was his ‘Fair &

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Rahul Gandhi demands rollback of proposed tax on EPF withdrawals

Politics | Mar 03, 2016, 02:41 PM IST

New Delhi: Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi today demanded the rollback of government's proposal to tax employee provident fund withdrawals."People work all their lives, and EPF is the safety net for them, and to destroy

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Let Centre take a call on TN govt's move to free Rajiv Gandhi's killers: Rahul

Politics | Mar 03, 2016, 02:02 PM IST

New Delhi: Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi today said that it is for the Central government to decide on Tamil Nadu government's move to free the seven assassins of former prime minister and his father

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Strategist Prashant Kishor meets Rahul to craft Congress UP strategy

Politics | Mar 03, 2016, 11:19 AM IST

New Delhi: Political strategist Prashant Kishor, who played a key role in victories of Narendra Modi-led BJP in general elections and JD(U)-RJD-Congress alliance in Bihar, on Wednesday attended a meeting with Congress Vice-President Rahul Gandhi

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Modi's Ministers hit back at Rahul Gandhi for misleading Parliament

Politics | Mar 03, 2016, 07:50 AM IST

New Delhi: Top three Ministers in Narendra Modi Cabinet hit back at Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi over his dig that the Prime Minister did not consult his ministers while taking crucial decisions including on

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Arun Jaitley hits back at Rahul over accusations against PM Modi

Politics | Mar 02, 2016, 11:15 PM IST

New Delhi: Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley today hit back at Rahul Gandhi over his dig that Prime Minister Narendra Modi did not consult even his ministers, saying that Congress vice president's views "lacked maturity".In

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Five times Rahul Gandhi left the Parliament in splits on Wednesday

Politics | Mar 04, 2016, 12:41 PM IST

New Delhi: Congress vice president on Wednesday led an aggressive charge against the Narendra Modi government, slamming it over issues related to the suicide of Rohith Vemula, the arrest of JNU leader Kanhaiya Kumar in

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