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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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Modi would have sidelined even Vajpayee, says Rahul at Karauli (Rajasthan) rally

Politics | Apr 20, 2014, 05:59 PM IST

Karauli (Rajasthan):  Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi  today said that Narendra Modi would have sidelined even Atal Bihari Vajapee the way he has sidelined Advani and Jaswant Singh.Addressing an election rally at Karauli in Rajasthan,

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BJP, Modi are dividing India like the British: Rahul Gandhi

Politics | Apr 19, 2014, 10:43 PM IST

Nagaon: Rahul Gandhi today accused the BJP and Narendra Modi of being divisive like the British Raj, while ridiculing its Gujarat model and also attacking the Mamata Banerjee government in Bengal for failing to take

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Rahul Gandhi to address rally in Rajasthan tomorrow

India | Apr 19, 2014, 07:48 PM IST

Jaipur: Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi will address an election meeting in Rajasthan's Karauli district tomorrow.Gandhi would be accompanied by senior Congress leader Kumari Selja, AICC secretary Mirza Irshad Beg, RPCC president Sachin Pilot, former

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Narendra Modi, Rahul Gandhi address poll meetings in same day

Politics | Apr 19, 2014, 05:52 PM IST

Nowgong: Narendra Modi today said a wish of the media for a ‘muqabla' between him and Rahul Gandhi addressing poll meetings in the same constituency on the same day was fulfilled in Assam today and

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Mamata govt saving those involved in Saradha scam: Rahul

India | Apr 19, 2014, 05:44 PM IST

Malda, WB: Hitting hard on the Mamata Banerjee government on the multi-crore Saradha ponzi scam, Rahul Gandhi today accused it of not taking action against those involved and instead trying to save them."The government here

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Rahul Gandhi ridicules Modi's Gujarat model

India | Apr 19, 2014, 03:57 PM IST

Nagaon, Assam:  Giving away farm land at throw away prices to an industrialist who made enormous profits selling it was the much touted Gujarat model of Narendra Modi,Congress Vice-President Rahul Gandhi alleged today."Modi sahab talks

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Modi divides people like the British used to do, says Rahul at Nagaon (Assam) rally

Politics | Apr 19, 2014, 01:58 PM IST

Nagaon (Assam): BJP's prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi divides people like the British used to, Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi said Thursday at an election rally."What did the British do when they first came to

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Transgender Sonam to take on Rahul Gandhi, Smriti Irani in Amethi

India | Apr 18, 2014, 07:04 PM IST

Amethi: Asserting that “hijras” can do a better job than others in Parliament, transgender Sonam Kinnar has entered the poll fray against sitting MP and Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi from here in what the

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BJP wants to divide India in 2 parts, says Rahul Gandhi

Politics | Apr 17, 2014, 07:43 PM IST

Korba/Khandwa:  In a relentless offensive against BJP, Rahul Gandhi today accused it of playing “divisive” politics, saying the rival party wants to split India into “two parts” unlike Congress which wants a “united single Hindustan”.Addressing

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Sonia Gandhi to address rally for Rahul in Amethi

Politics | Apr 17, 2014, 04:28 PM IST

Amethi: Congress president Sonia Gandhi will be arriving here on April 19 to address an election rally for her son Rahul Gandhi, the party's vice-president and candidate from the high-profile constituency here.  It would be

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Smriti Irani has assets worth Rs 4 cr

Politics | Apr 16, 2014, 07:40 PM IST

Amethi:  Television actor and BJP candidate Smriti Irani contesting against Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi, declared her assets at over Rs four crore in her nominations today.In her affidavit Irani has declared movable property worth

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Modiji, stop fooling people, Rahul Gandhi tells Bihar rally

Politics | Apr 16, 2014, 04:59 PM IST

Kisanganj(Bihar): Modiji, stop “fooling” the people, Rahul Gandhi asserted today in a fresh broadside against Narendra Modi, dubbing his “toffee or balloon” model of development in Gujarat as nothing but “loot of public money”.“Hindustan ko

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Rahul Gandhi continues attack on Modi's 'toffee' model in Agra

India | Apr 16, 2014, 09:40 AM IST

Agra: Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi kept up his attack on BJP prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi's 'toffee model' of development that only helped the rich at the cost of the poor.Addressing a public rally

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New slogan of Congress 'Main nahin Mom': Arun Jaitley

Politics | Apr 15, 2014, 11:37 PM IST

New Delhi: BJP leader Arun Jaitley today took a potshot at the Congress over the televised messages of Sonia Gandhi, saying that the party had been forced to change its principal communicator since Rahul Gandhi's

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'Balak mann' Rahul still in a world of balloons, toffees: Modi

Politics | Apr 15, 2014, 11:28 PM IST

Bhagalpur (Bihar): Narendra Modi today used the book authored by Prime Minister's former media adviser to mock at Manmohan Singh and targeted Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi, saying they wielded the real power instead of

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Sonia, Rahul, Advani to hit campaign trail in Bengal

Politics | Apr 15, 2014, 06:42 PM IST

Kolkata: Congress president Sonia Gandhi, party vice president Rahul Gandhi, senior BJP leader L.K. Advani and party president Rajnath Singh will hit the campaign trail for the Lok Sabha polls in West Bengal.According to a

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Priyanka slams Varun, says LS poll not a family tea party

Politics | Apr 15, 2014, 05:57 PM IST

Amethi: Priyanka Gandhi today fired yet another salvo at her cousin Varun Gandhi, saying the Lok Sabha elections is “an ideological war and not a family tea party”.  Even as Varun hit back at her

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Manmohan Singh only super PM in UPA govt: Priyanka

Politics | Apr 15, 2014, 05:54 PM IST

Amethi (UP): Priyanka Gandhi today said that only Manmohan Singh was the “super Prime Minister” in UPA government, amid a storm over Sanjaya Baru's tell-all book that raised questions over the political authority of the

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Live: Modi hits back at Rahul for 'toffee' comment at Hazaribagh rally

Politics | Apr 15, 2014, 05:34 PM IST

Hazaribagh:  Hitting back at Rahul Gandhi for dubbing Gujarat development model as a ‘toffee model', Narendra Modi today compared the Congress Vice President with children and said the word ‘toffee' has caught his fancy after

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Live: Priyanka Gandhi campaigns for Rahul in Amethi

Politics | Apr 15, 2014, 12:22 PM IST

Amethi: Priyanka Gandhi is on a two day visit to her brother's constituency. She will be campaigning for Rahul Tuesday, who is the sitting MP of Amethi constituency. Priyanka will be holding public meetings, meet