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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New Delhi: Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi during a meeting with partymen from West Bengal on Monday conceded that it was "not a wise decision" to contest so few seats in the 2011 assembly elections
Dharamshala: Union Minister for Human Resource Development (HRD) Smriti Irani today trained her guns at the Congress party, in particular, at vice president Rahul Gandhi over his protests at Hyderabad Central University.Irani accused Rahul Gandhi
New Delhi: Accusing Rahul Gandhi of using students as a "political tool", BJP today said he was shedding "crocodile tears" over a Dalit scholar's suicide and mocked his day-long fast, saying he was used to
HYDERABAD: The Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) Saturday called for a bandh of colleges in Telangana in protest against the “politics over dead bodies” done by Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi in the Hyderabad Central
Hyderabad: Stepping up the offensive on Dalit scholar Rohith Vemula suicide issue, Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi today commenced a day-long fast along with agitating students of Hyderabad Central University here after participating in a candle
Mahoba (Uttar Pradesh): Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi today hit out at Prime Minister Narendra Modi at a public meeting in Mahoba district in Bundelkhand, saying 'he ignored the welfare of farmers over industrialists'."I will
Hyderabad: As protests continue in the University of Hyderabad after the suicide of Dalit research scholar Rohith Vemula, politicians of all hues are making a beeline for the campus visit to express solidarity with the
New Delhi: Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi will today visit the University of Hyderabad to meet the students after a Dalit scholar allegedly committed suicide sparking massive protests.Rahul is leaving for Hyderabad along with party
Amethi: Sharpening her attack on Rahul Gandhi, Union HRD Minister Smriti Irani today accused the Congress Vice-President of cheating the people of his Lok Sabha constituency, whom he had described as his extended family."Rahul has
New Delhi: Union Minister M Venkaiah Naidu today criticised Congress saying it is "not fair" on its part to set conditions for the passage of the GST bill and if the said clauses were so
Mumbai: Vice President Rahul Gandhi today targeted the BJP-led Government at the Centre over the price rise issue, seeking to know why the rates of essential commodities were skyrocketing at a time when oil prices
New Delhi: Rahul Gandhi's address at a management college in Mumbai has been accused of containing ‘too much politics' by the students. They feel that the Congress Vice-President seemed to be trying too hard to
Mumbai: Expressing his views on whether sports body should be governed by politicians, Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi today said that politicians should not be involved in sports administration adding that a popular sport like
Mumbai: Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi today said that the Congress party would help pass the Goods and Services Tax (GST) bill in the Rajya Sabha "in 15 minutes" provided that the government acceeded to its
Mumbai: The issue of alleged factionalism within the Mumbai unit of Congress is again in focus as party vice-president Rahul Gandhi begins his two-day visit to the city today. There were noisy scenes at a party
New Delhi: Senior advocate and MP Ram Jethmalani had offered to defend Congress President Sonia and Rahul Gandhi in the National Herald case but "revoked" it when she did not act on his "advice" to
Rahul Gandhi returns from Europe, to hold meeting todayNew Delhi: Rahul Gandhi, the Congress vice president returned from his holiday in Europe. He will now hold a meeting with his party leaders today where he
New Delhi: Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi today returned from his trip to Europe and will hold a meeting with Congress leaders tomorrow to take stock of the developments during his absence.Gandhi, whose foreign trips
The Congress is in a predicament which is quite unlike that of any other party. It has lost its primacy of position at the national level and is struggling to remain relevant in a number
New Delhi: Lok Sabha Speaker Sumitra Mahajan has forwarded to the Ethics Committee of Parliament a complaint by a BJP MP alleging that Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi presented himself as a British citizen to float
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