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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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Those who have launched 'Swachh Bharat Abhiyan' are spreading poison in society: Rahul Gandhi

Politics | Nov 13, 2014, 04:14 PM IST

New Delhi: The Congress accused Prime Minister Narendra Modi of spreading the “poison” of communalism and asked party men to fight those out to demolish Jawaharlal Nehru's “liberal India”, intensifying the battle over his legacy.While

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Bhardwaj pitches for bigger role for Priyanka in Congress

Politics | Nov 11, 2014, 10:13 PM IST

New Delhi: Congress leader H R Bhardwaj, a known Gandhi family loyalist, today pitched for leadership role for Priyanka Gandhi and said Rahul Gandhi is not capable of attracting crowds.A former Law Minister who recently

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Congress stays away from swearing-in ceremony

Politics | Nov 09, 2014, 08:33 PM IST

New Delhi: Congress on Sunday kept away from the oath-taking ceremony of 21 new Ministers in Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Council of Ministers.“Both Sonia Gandhi and Manmohan Singh were invited to the ceremony,” Power Minister

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Sonia Gandhi, Rahul meet Manmohan Singh, hail award by Japan

Politics | Nov 08, 2014, 11:19 PM IST

New Delhi: Congress president Sonia Gandhi and party vice-president Rahul Gandhi visited former prime minister Manmohan Singh on Saturday to congratulate him for being conferred with one of the highest civilian honours of Japan.Singh was

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National Herald Case: Delhi HC allows more time to Sonia-Rahul lawyers to conclude argument

Politics | Nov 04, 2014, 12:53 PM IST

New Delhi: In a major relief Sonia and Rahul Gandhi in the National Herald case, the Delhi High Court has extended its stay on the trial court summons served on Sonia Gandhi, Rahul Gandhi and

rahul gandhi holds another round of consultations on party

Rahul Gandhi holds another round of consultations on party's future

Politics | Nov 03, 2014, 09:11 PM IST

New Delhi:  On a day Congress suffered a split in Tamil Nadu, Rahul Gandhi today held confabulations with some senior party leaders, including Kerala Chief Minister Oomen Chandy, on the future course in the wake

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Modi a man with vision, but still not impressed: Dikshit

Politics | Nov 02, 2014, 05:51 PM IST

New Delhi: Days after reports quoted her as having lavished praises on Prime Minister Narendra Modi, former Delhi Chief Minister and Congress leader Sheila Dikshit has now said that she was not impressed by him. 

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Rahul Gandhi should take charge of Congress: Digvijay Singh

Politics | Nov 01, 2014, 10:30 AM IST

New Delhi: Congress general secretary Digvijay Singh has stunned everyone by calling for a leadership change in the party. He said that party vice-president Rahul Gandhi should take the charge of the Congress from his

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Leaders pay tributes to Indira Gandhi on death anniversary

Politics | Oct 31, 2014, 09:38 AM IST

New Delhi: The nation today remembered former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi on her 30th death anniversary with President Pranab Mukherjee, Vice President Hamid Ansari and other leaders paying tributes to her.  Mukherjee, Congress President Sonia

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Rahul directs elimination of bogus members in Congress polls

Politics | Oct 28, 2014, 11:29 PM IST

New Delhi: Rahul Gandhi today directed weeding out of bogus members in the organisational elections to make Congress fighting fit in the wake of the debacle in Lok Sabha and Assembly polls.The Congress Vice President

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Organisational polls should reinvigorate, rejuvenate the party: Rahul Gandhi

Politics | Oct 28, 2014, 06:20 PM IST

New Delhi: Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday said the organisational elections should be utilised to "reinvigorate and rejuvenate" the party following the debacle in the Lok Sabha and Assembly polls.In his first formal

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Sonia, Rahul in black money list, claims Subramanian Swamy

Politics | Oct 28, 2014, 12:14 PM IST

New Delhi: Senior Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Subramanian Swamy has claimed that Congress president Sonia Gandhi and her son Rahul Gandhi are in the list of people who have stashed black money in foreign

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Vasan thrashes Chidambaram's non-Gandhi chief pitch

Politics | Oct 27, 2014, 04:28 PM IST

Chennai: Endorsing the leadership of Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi, former Union Shipping Minister and senior Congress leader G K Vasan today said here that party workers were not in favour of a non-Gandhi party

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Sonia Gandhi, Rahul Gandhi should 'speak more': P Chidambaram

Politics | Oct 25, 2014, 07:26 AM IST

New Delhi: Senior Congress leader P Chidambaram on Friday said that Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi should “speak more” and put in action a timetable that would enable the party to play the role of

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Rahul Gandhi to visit Hudhud-hit Koraput today

Politics | Oct 20, 2014, 06:57 AM IST

Koraput (Odisha): Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi is scheduled to visit Maoist-affected Koraput district of Odisha today to take stock of areas affected by cyclone Hudhud.Security has been tightened ahead of his visit."As the area is

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Congress wins 3 of 6 Haryana seats where Sonia, Rahul campaigned

Politics | Oct 19, 2014, 11:37 PM IST

Chandigarh: Congress, which was eyeing a record third term in Haryana on development plank, could win only three of six assembly seats where party president Sonia Gandhi and vice president Rahul Gandhi held election rallies

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Sonia, Rahul accept people's verdict in Maharashtra and Haryana

Politics | Oct 19, 2014, 06:29 PM IST

New Delhi: With Congress losing power in Maharashtra and Haryana, its President Sonia Gandhi and Vice President Rahul Gandhi said the party will now play a "constructive and vigilant role" in the two states where

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Amid Congress debacle in two states, Rahul Gandhi visits cyclone affected areas in AP

Politics | Oct 19, 2014, 03:11 PM IST

Visakhapatnam/Bhubaneswar: Away from the electoral debacle that engulfed the party in Maharashtra and Haryana demoralising cadres, Congress  vice-president Rahul Gandhi on Sunday visited the Cyclone Hudhud affected areas in Visakhapatnam.He was accompanied by state party

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Rahul Gandhi to visit Odisha on Monday

Politics | Oct 19, 2014, 11:49 AM IST

Bhubaneswar: Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi will visit Odisha Monday. He will undertake an aerial survey of the areas affected by cyclone 'Hudhud' and meet some of the victims.Gandhi will reach Jeypore in Koraput district

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Call for 'Priyanka lao, Congress Bachao' gets louder in Congress after poll debacle

Politics | Oct 19, 2014, 05:38 PM IST

New Delhi: With trends projecting a defeat for Congress in both Maharashtra and Haryana, a group of party workers gathered outside the AICC office here demanding that Priyanka Gandhi join active politics.This is not the

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