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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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Rahul Gandhi to begin campaign in Bihar from today; 4 other events of the day

India | Sep 19, 2015, 11:12 AM IST

Rahul Gandhi to begin campaign in Bihar from today New Delhi: Invoking Dalit icons BR Ambedkar and Jagjivan Ram, Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi will kick off his election campaign in Bihar with rally on

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Bihar Assembly polls: Nitish, Lalu to skip Rahul's rally today

Politics | Sep 19, 2015, 11:11 AM IST

Patna: Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar and RJD chief Lalu Prasad Yadav will not be present at the rally of Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi in West Champaran district today as the two would be

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ED may soon file complaint of money laundering in National Herald case

Politics | Sep 18, 2015, 11:17 PM IST

New Delhi: The Enforcement Directorate may now register a complaint of money laundering in the National Herald case, days after a senior official of the agency had noted that there was no case made out

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After Lalu, Nitish too cancels on Rahul Gandhi's September 19 rally

Politics | Sep 18, 2015, 12:00 AM IST

New Delhi: It seems that all is not well in the ‘grand secular alliance' of Bihar.Days after Rashtriya Janata Dal Chief Lalu Yadav expressed inability to attend Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi's rally in Bihar,

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Narendra Modi cannot go against RSS: Rahul Gandhi

Politics | Sep 16, 2015, 11:48 PM IST

New Delhi: RSS "imposes" its views and no one in BJP including Prime Minister Narendra Modi can oppose them, Rahul Gandhi today told a closed door meeting of the two-day national executive of Youth Congress,

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FTII deadlock: BJP leader Madhav Bhandari talks to students

India | Sep 16, 2015, 03:58 PM IST

Pune:  In an effort to end the 97-day-old impasse at FTII, senior BJP leader Madhav Bhandari today held informal talks with students' representatives even as the relay hunger strike by three protesters continued on the

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Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi conducts interview to select his core group of leaders

Politics | Sep 15, 2015, 12:06 AM IST

New Delhi: Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi has started to take interview of selected Congress leaders who will be the part of his team.  The selected Congress people will be given the post of General

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Bihar polls: Lalu Prasad refuses to share dais with Rahul at West Champaran rally

Politics | Sep 14, 2015, 05:36 PM IST

Patna: In what could spell trouble for the grand alliance in Bihar elections, former chief minister Lalu Prasad has refused to share the stage with Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi at a rally and efforts

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PM Modi overlooks interest of farmers: Rahul Gandhi

Politics | Sep 13, 2015, 12:15 PM IST

New Delhi: Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi on Saturday accused Prime Minister Narendra Modi of overlooking farmers as the party formed a committee to prepare for its rally on September 20 to mark its success

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Arun Jaitley takes veiled dig at Rahul Gandhi

Politics | Sep 11, 2015, 10:05 PM IST

Kochi: In a veiled dig at Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi, senior BJP leader and Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley today said that Congress' fortunes are bound to go down further in the absence of

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Odisha mired in corruption, chitfund scam: Rahul Gandhi

Politics | Sep 11, 2015, 08:35 PM IST

Bhubaneswar: Alleging that Odisha is plagued by a host of problems including "corruption and chitfund scam", Congress Vice-President Rahul Gandhi today said the state had witnessed "regional imbalance"."There is a huge corruption issue. People are

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Where are 'achhe din', Rahul Gandhi mocks Modi government

Politics | Sep 10, 2015, 02:12 PM IST

Bhubaneswar: On a day Prime Minister Narendra Modi accused the Congress of creating roadblocks in governance, Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi on Thursday took a jibe at the government for its "anti-farmer policies", asking "where

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PM Modi to inaugurate 'Vishwa Hindi Sammelan

India | Sep 10, 2015, 11:18 AM IST

1. PM Modi to inaugurate 'Vishwa Hindi Sammelan'Bhopal: Prime Minister Narendra Modi will today inaugurate the three-day 10th Vishwa Hindi Sammelan (World Hindi Conference) in Bhopal."The conference will prove to be a milestone in universalization

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Rahul Gandhi to chair Congress CLP meeting today

Politics | Sep 07, 2015, 10:49 AM IST

New Delhi: Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi will today chair the meeting of Congress Legislative Party (CLP) leaders of states, where the party is in opposition.The meeting, which is scheduled to take place at 3 pm,

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Sonia Gandhi's term as Congress President likely to be extended by a year

Politics | Sep 04, 2015, 10:49 PM IST

New Delhi:  The Congress Working Committee is likely to extend party president Sonia Gandhi's term by another year when it meets here on September 8. The current term of Sonia, who has been at the

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PM can't see œintolerant non-state actor controlling his govt: Rahul Gandhi

Politics | Sep 04, 2015, 10:04 PM IST

New Delhi:  Apparently targeting RSS, Rahul Gandhi today dubbed it as an “intolerant non-state actor” “controlling” the Narendra Modi government and said the Prime Minister cannot see it.“Modiji can see intolerant non-state actors controlling large

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Rahul Gandhi elevation as Congress president likely to be delayed

Politics | Sep 04, 2015, 10:22 AM IST

New Delhi: Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi is unlikely to be elevated as party president soon.A meeting of Congress Working Committee (CWC), the party's highest decision-making body, is likely to be held on September 8 to

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Congress dismisses speculation about Rahul not sharing dais with Lalu

Politics | Sep 02, 2015, 07:22 PM IST

NEW DELHI: Congress today dismissed speculation that Rahul Gandhi will not share dais with RJD chief Lalu Prasad in poll-bound Bihar. "These sort of doubts only you have. The meaning of an alliance is to

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Rahul Gandhi to lead a 'Save Farmer March' in Odisha

Politics | Sep 01, 2015, 05:10 PM IST

New Delhi:  Congress Vice-President Rahul Gandhi will lead a 'Save Farmer March' in Bargarh district during his two-day visit to Odisha to highlight alleged failure of both the Centre and BJD regime in the state

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PM Modi's politics of anger responsible for Gujarat situation: Rahul Gandhi

Politics | Aug 27, 2015, 05:40 PM IST

Srinagar: Rahul Gandhi today targeted Prime Minister Narendra Modi over the violence in Gujarat during quota agitation by Patels, saying it was a repercussion of the “politics of anger” pursued by Modi .“Our Prime Minister

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