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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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Amethi Food Park row: Rahul Gandhi's own UPA govt scrapped the project !

Politics | May 14, 2015, 07:32 AM IST

New Delhi: A heated debate was witnessed in Lok Sabha today over the cancellation  of mega Food Park in Amethi with Congress accusing the Narendra Modi government of resorting to "politics of vendetta" on developmental

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Rahul Gandhi to undertake 15-km padyatra in Telangana

Politics | May 13, 2015, 05:05 PM IST

Hyderabad: Congress Vice-President Rahul Gandhi will embark on a two-day visit to Telangana beginning tomorrow which would include a 15-km ‘padayatra' in Adilabad district.According to Mallu Bhatti Vikramarka, TPCC working President, Rahul's visit is to

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Rahul Gandhi condemns Karachi bus attack

Politics | May 13, 2015, 04:36 PM IST

New Delhi: Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi strongly condemned the attack on a bus in Karachi in Pakistan on Wednesday."I strongly condemn the brutal terrorist attack in Karachi. Innocent lives have been lost in a

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May 12: Top 5 News Events you might have missed today!

India | May 12, 2015, 09:37 PM IST

Earthquakes jolt Nepal; tremors felt across India, Indonesia, AfghanistanNepal's Home Ministry says at least 42 people killed and 981 injured in latest earthquake.Police spokesman Kamal Singh Bam said that four people were killed in Chautara

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Smriti Irani asks Rahul Gandhi to join the politics of change

Politics | May 12, 2015, 08:13 PM IST

AMETHI: Union Minister Smriti Irani today asked Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi to join her for "politics of change" for Amethi's development.Irani was responding to Gandhi's allegation that Prime Minister Narendra Modi was practicing "politics

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Union Minister Harsimrat Kaur Badal takes on Rahul Gandhi over Amethi food park issue

Politics | May 12, 2015, 04:57 PM IST

New Delhi: Union Food Processing Minister Harsimrat Kaur Badal today attacked Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi over cancellation of food park in his constituency, Amethi."When Rahul Gandhi spoke for the first time in Amethi, he was

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Modi govt is anti-farmer, murdered UPA's Land Bill: Rahul Gandhi in LS

Politics | May 12, 2015, 03:59 PM IST

New Delhi: Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi today accused BJP-led NDA government of 'murdering' 2013 Land Acquisition Bill which was formulated with the support of the then opposition including BJP."It took around two years to introduce

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Congress questions Chair's impartiality; Speaker rejects charges

Politics | May 12, 2015, 01:55 PM IST

New Delhi: A belligerent Congress today raised concern over the impartiality of the Chair in the Lok Sabha, eliciting strong protests from the Treasury benches with the government asserting that the Speaker cannot be “threatened”.Noisy

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'Farmers of Amethi in distress but Rahul Gandhi missing from scene'

Politics | May 12, 2015, 02:20 PM IST

Amethi: Union HRD Minister Smriti Irani today visited Congress vice-president, Rahul Gandhi's bastion Amethi to offer solace to farmers whose crops have been destroyed by unseasonal rain.Without taking name of Rahul, she said that the

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Criminal defamation: Rahul's appeal in SC posted for July 8

Politics | May 11, 2015, 09:14 PM IST

New Delhi: The Supreme Court today said that it will first decide on the issue of constitutional validity of penal provisions dealing with criminal defamation before dealing with Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi's appeal against

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Rahul Gandhi accuses Modi government of hurting fishermen's interest

Politics | May 11, 2015, 05:50 PM IST

New Delhi:  Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi today accused the Narendra Modi government of going against the interests of fishermen in coastal states, saying a ban by the ‘suit-boot ki sarkar' was not allowing them

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Rahul's suit-boot remark on Modi shows his desperation, MP CM Chouhan tells Aap Ki Adalat

Politics | May 10, 2015, 12:04 AM IST

New Delhi:  Madhya Pradesh chief minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan lashed out at Congress leader Rahul Gandhi for describing Prime Minister Modi's government as "suit-boot ki sarkar".Replying to queries from Rajat Sharma in the show Aap

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Smriti Irani to visit Rahul Gandhi's constituency on May 12

Politics | May 09, 2015, 07:41 PM IST

Amethi:  Union Minister Smriti Irani will visit Rahul Gandhi's constituency Amethi on May 12 to meet farmers affected by untimely rains, but an irked Congress has said it will oppose it over the cancellation of

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BJP playing vendetta politics against Rahul: Congress

Politics | May 08, 2015, 09:36 PM IST

New Delhi: Hitting back, Congress today alleged that the Narendra Modi government was playing politics of vendetta against Rahul Gandhi over a mega food park project in his Lok Sabha constituency Amethi in Uttar Pradesh.Party

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Rahul Gandhi's march-for-farmers in Telangana postponed by 3 days

Politics | May 08, 2015, 09:37 PM IST

New Delhi:  Congress leader Rahul Gandhi's proposed 'Kisan padyatra' in Telangana has been postponed in view of extension of parliament's budget sesssion for three more days."In view of the extension of Lok Sabha session, Rahul

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Why was Rahul mum on farmers' suicides during Congress rule?: BJP

Politics | May 08, 2015, 08:23 PM IST

Hyderabad:  Hitting back at Rahul Gandhi for his attack on NDA government on farmers' issues and his proposed 'padayatra' in Telangana, state BJP today said the Congress Vice President should first talk about the farmers'

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Congress will stage come back with force: Chandy

Politics | May 08, 2015, 05:16 PM IST

Kochi: Rahul Gandhi's renewed efforts to strengthen the Congress at the grassroot level and Sonia Gandhi's leadership will enable the party to “come back with force,” Kerala Chief Minister Oommen Chandy said here today.  “Congress

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BJP targets Rahul, says Congress engaging in 'doublespeak'

Politics | May 08, 2015, 05:07 PM IST

New Delhi: Congress today came under fire for engaging in “doublespeak” as BJP charged that while its Vice President Rahul Gandhi was on the one hand opposing the NDA government's bid to improve rural infrastructure,

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Food Processing Minister accuses Rahul of deception over Amethi issue

Politics | May 08, 2015, 04:31 PM IST

New Delhi: Rahul Gandhi today came under attack in Lok Sabha, with the government accusing him of “playing politics of deception” and “misleading” the House over a mega food park project in his constituency Amethi,

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Rahul appears in Maharashtra court in RSS defamation case

Politics | May 08, 2015, 01:39 PM IST

Thane (Maharashtra): Rahul Gandhi today appeared in a court at Bhiwandi here in connection with a criminal defamation case for allegedly blaming RSS for assassination of Mahatma Gandhi though the Supreme Court had yesterday stayed