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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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CWC meet today, likely to discuss roadmap to revamp party

Politics | Jan 13, 2015, 08:41 AM IST

New Delhi: A crucial meeting of the Congress Working Committee (CWC) will be held today which is expected to deliberate on the roadmap to revamp the party in the wake of its worst debacle in

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Congress plans rally against land ordinance in Bhatta Parsaul

Politics | Jan 13, 2015, 06:59 AM IST

New Delhi: With the Congress deciding on a series of agitations against the land ordinance, senior party leader Jairam Ramesh will attend a farmers' meeting on January 14 in Uttar Pradesh's Bhatta Parsaul village from

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Weaken, discredit Congress is BJP's new Gujarat model for polls: DPCC

Politics | Jan 12, 2015, 01:57 PM IST

New Delhi: Ahead of Assembly polls, Delhi Congress today hit out at the BJP, alleging the rival party's “new Gujarat model” was to “weaken and discredit Congress” and offer voters pre-poll sops like 24-hour electricity

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Entire Congress will welcome Rahul as party president: Gehlot

Politics | Jan 12, 2015, 09:07 AM IST

Jaipur: Former Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot today said entire Congress will welcome party vice-president Rahul Gandhi whenever he opts for the post of party president.Everyone in Congress is united for this leader, who is

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Entire Congress will welcome Rahul as party president: Ashok Gehlot

Politics | Jan 12, 2015, 08:27 AM IST

Jaipur: Former Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot today said entire Congress will welcome party vice-president Rahul Gandhi whenever he opts for the post of party president. Everyone in Congress is united for this leader, who

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Party high command to decide whether Rahul should be made President

Politics | Jan 11, 2015, 04:10 PM IST

Kanpur: Congress leader and former Union Minister Rajeev Shukla today said that it is for the party high command to decide whether Rahul Gandhi should be made President of the party.“Party leaders have been demanding

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Congress to focus on jobs, youths' aspirations in its revival plan

Politics | Jan 11, 2015, 02:14 PM IST

New Delhi:  With youths virtually deserting it in last Lok Sabha polls, Congress is betting big on young voters in its revival plan to counter the Narendra Modi “wave” that has led to a trail

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Congress outlines blueprint for party revamp

Politics | Jan 10, 2015, 11:49 PM IST

New Delhi: Struggling to recover from its worst electoral debacle, Congress leadership has outlined a blueprint to revamp the party and redraft its socio-economic policies amid reports that Rahul Gandhi may be elevated to the

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Congress became 'weak' due to 'some wrongs' of UPA-II: Dwivedi

Politics | Jan 10, 2015, 09:42 PM IST

Lucknow: Congress became “weak” in the country because of “certain wrongs” of the UPA-II leading to its present scenario, senior party leader Janardan Dwivedi today said as he spoke of the need to launch a

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Congress does not rule out Rahul Gandhi becoming next chief

Politics | Jan 15, 2015, 05:13 PM IST

New Delhi: Congress on Friday did not rule out the possibility of Rahul Gandhi becoming the next party chief, taking over the reins from his mother Sonia Gandhi, who has been the party's longest-serving president.Party

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Top 9 politically incorrect remarks that shamed nation!

Mouthful | Jan 09, 2015, 12:59 PM IST

Time and again, people from the political arena do the wrong not just with their acts but with their minds too...especially when they let it out in open!Recently, Sakshi Maharaj's outrageous remarks suggesting 'Hindu women

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Bombay HC exempts Rahul Gandhi from appearing in defamation case

Politics | Jan 07, 2015, 01:38 PM IST

Mumbai: The Bombay High Court has granted exemption from personal appearance to Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi in a defamation case filed against him in a court at Bhiwandi town in neighbouring Thane district over

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Rahul Gandhi defaming Punjabis by calling them drug addicts: Sukhbir Badal

Politics | Jan 06, 2015, 02:07 PM IST

New Delhi: Sukhbir Singh Badal, Deputy Chief Minister of Punjab,  has blamed Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi for engineering a conspiracy to defame brave Punjabis  as drug addicts and alleged that the  Gandhi family's hatred

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Terror boat: Congress speaking Pakistan's language; Rahul Gandhi should clarify, says BJP

Politics | Jan 05, 2015, 05:37 PM IST

New Delhi: Accusing Congress of playing “dirty politics” over the Pakistani boat issue, BJP today demanded that its vice president Rahul Gandhi clarify whether he supports his party leaders speaking Pakistan's language.BJP said that Gandhi,

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Shiromani Akali Dal holds dharna against drug menace near India-Pakistan border

Politics | Jan 05, 2015, 05:08 PM IST

Chandigarh: With ally BJP raking up the drug menace issue in a big way rankling Akali Dal, Deputy Chief Minister Sukhbir Singh Badal today sought to turn the tables saying BJP-ruled states were not ready

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Congress likely to come up with revival blueprint by March

Politics | Jan 04, 2015, 10:29 AM IST

New Delhi: A blueprint for revival of Congress is expected to be ready by March with Sonia Gandhi asking state unit chiefs to seek views of grass-roots workers on how to turn around the party's

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Congress terms AAP B-team of BJP

Politics | Jan 03, 2015, 10:26 PM IST

New Delhi: Delhi Congress today attacked the Aam Admi Party saying it was a B-team of BJP whose only purpose of fighing the election was to cut into the votes of the party to help

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A new low for Congress in 2014

Politics | Dec 31, 2014, 12:02 PM IST

New Delhi: Congress had a roller-coaster ride in 2014 from the commanding heights of power to the lowest depths of defeat as the Narendra Modi-led BJP juggernaut decimated it in Lok Sabha and successive assembly

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Delhi polls: Congress to launch campaign with mega rally after Jan 10

Politics | Dec 30, 2014, 11:46 PM IST

New Delhi: Congress President Sonia Gandhi and Vice President Rahul Gandhi will kickstart the party's campaign for Delhi Assembly polls with a “mega rally” after January 10, as the party gears up to bring out

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Sonia, Rahul condemn attack on civilians in Assam

Politics | Dec 24, 2014, 01:16 PM IST

New Delhi:  Congress President Sonia Gandhi and Vice President Rahul Gandhi today condemned the attack on civilians by militant groups in Assam.  “Killing of innocent people in Sonitpur and Kokrajhar is an act of cowardice

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