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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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Bonhomie in Central Hall; Modi, Rahul exchange greetings

Politics | Jun 09, 2014, 02:05 PM IST

New Delhi: It was a spectacle of bonhomie in the Central Hall of Parliament as Prime Minister Narendra Modi greeted his political adversary Rahul Gandhi warmly grabbing his hand, while Congress President Sonia Gandhi chatted

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Sonia Gandhi to visit Rae Bareli on Jun 13

Politics | Jun 08, 2014, 05:43 PM IST

Rae Bareli: Congress president Sonia Gandhi would be on a one-day-visit to her Parliamentary constituency for the first time after winning the Lok Sabha elections on June 13.The Congress president's local representative K L Sharma

sonia gandhi to visit rae bareli on jun 13

Sonia Gandhi to visit Rae Bareli on Jun 13

India | Jun 08, 2014, 04:46 PM IST

Rae Bareli: Congress president Sonia Gandhi would be on a one-day-visit to her Parliamentary constituency for the first time after winning the Lok Sabha elections on June 13.The Congress president's local representative K L Sharma

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All necessary steps be taken for women's security: Rahul Gandhi

India | Jun 05, 2014, 11:21 PM IST

New Delhi: Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi today called for taking all necessary steps to improve law and order to ensure safety and security of women in the wake of repeated incidents of rape coming

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Congress poll review meet sees members regretting alliance with RJD

Politics | Jun 04, 2014, 09:29 PM IST

Patna: Bihar Congress today held a review meeting after the Lok Sabha election debacle with party leaders regretting the tie-up with RJD and proposing an alliance with JD(U) in state assembly polls next year.  The

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Congress defends Rahul for not taking up 'onerous' job of Opposition leader

Politics | Jun 04, 2014, 07:34 PM IST

New Delhi: Rahul Gandhi has the responsibility of reinventing and reviving the Congress, the party said today as it defended him for not taking up the “onerous task” of heading the party in the Lok

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New Lok Sabha: Elation, bonhomie and sadness

Politics | Jun 04, 2014, 05:10 PM IST

New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi Wednesday walked over to the opposition benches and greeted Sonia Gandhi and other leaders with folded hands as the members, a majority of them newcomers, assembled for the first

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Gogoi meets Rahul twice, may go for Assam Cabinet reshuffle

Politics | Jun 04, 2014, 11:12 AM IST

New Delhi: Facing in-house rebellion in the wake of the party's poor show in Lok Sabha elections in the state, Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi today had two separate rounds of meeting with Congress Vice-President

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Sonia writes to Munde's wife, Rahul visits BJP headquarters

Politics | Jun 03, 2014, 09:50 PM IST

New Delhi: Political differences blurred as Congress President Sonia Gandhi wrote a personal letter to Union Minister Gopinath Munde's family condoling his death and Rahul Gandhi visited the BJP office to pay respects to the

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Sadly, rapes in UP no longer shock

Politics | Jun 03, 2014, 11:59 AM IST

Rapes in Uttar Pradesh no longer shock - neither the political masters, nor the government and not even the people. Even as there was a national outcry against the recent twin gang-rape, brutal assault and

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Senior Congress leaders meet Sonia, Rahul

Politics | Jun 02, 2014, 10:13 PM IST

New Delhi: Senior Congress leaders from Andhra Pradesh met party President Sonia Gandhi and Vice President Rahul Gandhi and discussed the reasons for its rout in elections in the state and ways to “revive” the

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Security does not depend on someone's 'whims and fancies': MoS

Politics | Jun 02, 2014, 07:08 PM IST

New Delhi: In the wake of Priyanka Gandhi asking the SPG to withdraw exemptions given to her family from security checks, Union Minister of State for Home Kiren Rijiju today asked why she was trying

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BJP seeks home ministry's intervention in Uttar Pradesh

Politics | Jun 02, 2014, 01:00 PM IST

Lucknow: The Uttar Pradesh unit of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has sought the union home ministry's intervention in the failing law and order situation in the state, a party leader said Monday.This follows a

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Suspended Congress MLA Bhanwar Lal to launch campaign

Politics | Jun 01, 2014, 09:25 PM IST

Jaipur: Not bothered about his suspension from Congress, MLA Bhanwar Lal Sharma today firmly said he would launch a statewide “jagrati abhiyan” (awareness campaign) against the Congress and invite other former and like-minded Congressmen to

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MPs responsible for their defeat not Rahul: Lovely

Politics | Jun 01, 2014, 04:28 PM IST

New Delhi: Talking tough as he readies a revival strategy for the party in the national capital, Delhi Congress Chief Arvinder Singh Lovely today said senior leaders Kapil Sibal, Ajay Maken and Sandeep Dikshit as

paswan to meet family members of badaun rape victims

Paswan to meet family members of Badaun rape victims

Politics | Jun 01, 2014, 01:02 PM IST

New Delhi: Union minister Ram Vilas Paswan will visit Badaun district in UP tomorrow and meet family members of the two girls who were gangraped and murdered.  Paswan, who is the chief of the Lok

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Now Congress' Rajasthan legislator attacks Rahul

Politics | Jun 01, 2014, 11:18 AM IST

New Delhi: In another attack on Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi following the party's debacle in the Lok Sabha election, a party legislator in Rajasthan Saturday called him "MD of Congress circus"."Rahul Gandhi is the

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Poll defeat is collective responsibility: Ramesh

Politics | May 31, 2014, 11:19 PM IST

Ranchi: Former Union Minister Jairam Ramesh today said Rahul Gandhi did his best during the electioneering for Lok Sabha polls and the party's drubbing was a collective responsibility.“It's (defeat) a collective responsibility. Rahul Gandhi tried

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Rahul, his advisors responsible for Congress rout: Bhanwar Lal

Politics | May 31, 2014, 07:43 PM IST

Jaipur: Yet another Congress leader today attacked party Vice President Rahul Gandhi saying he has neither direction nor any policy and called him an ‘MD of a team of jokers'.Bhanwar Lal Sharma, a Rajasthan MLA

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Rahul Gandhi can't be singled out for Congress' poll debacle: Oommen Chandy

Politics | May 31, 2014, 04:58 PM IST

Thiruvananthapuram: Kerala Chief Minister Oommen Chandy today said that Rahul Gandhi cannot be singled out for the Congress' debacle in the Lok Sabha elections."It is not proper to single out any particular leader for the

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