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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Mumbai: Describing Rahul Gandhi as "the most competent and ultimate leader" in the country, Union Oil Minister Veerappa Moily has said the Congress vice-president is "fit to be the Prime Minister"."He is the most competent,
New Delhi: The BJP Saturday accused Rahul Gandhi of hypocrisy, after the Congress vice president said the biggest problem faced by the country was corruption."You don't speak a word on the Commonwealth Games corruption, you
As spelt out by Sharad Pawar, the Congress has learnt some home truths from its recent electoral reverses. One was, as the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) leader said, that the country doesn't like weak leaders.
New Delhi: Amid heightened speculation about Rahul Gandhi's nomination as Congress' prime ministerial candidate, senior party leader and Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Virbhadra Singh today said it is the “right time” that he is declared.Downplaying
New Delhi: In the wake of Maharashtra government rejecting a probe report on Adarsh scam, BJP todaysaid while Congress and its vice president Rahul Gandhi have tried to take credit for passage of anti-corruption Lokpal
Chandigarh: As Congress hailed its Vice-President Rahul Gandhi's “key role” in the passage of the Lokpal Bill, which was cleared by Parliament today, Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda said that theNehru-Gandhi scion was competent
New Delhi: Congress today hailed party Vice-President Rahul Gandhi's “key role” in the passage of the historic Lokpal Bill, which was cleared by Parliament today, while asserting that it was committed to bringing in an
New Delhi: Congress today sought to appropriate the credit for the passage of the Lokpal bill in Rajya Sabha to its leader Rahul Gandhi's “single-minded” determination” and claimed it has done the maximum on the
New Delhi: RJD supremo Lalu Prasad today said that although he has no objection on Rahul Gandhi becoming PM, a final decision on this matter should be taken only after elections are over."It is a
New Delhi: Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi and union Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde Tuesday declined to meet a US Congressional delegation to highlight India's strong disapproval of the arrest and handcuffing of an Indian diplomat
New Delhi: Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi has told the fasting social activist Anna Hazare that his party is committed to a strong Lokpal."We are committed to provide a strong Lokpal system to the country,"
New Delhi/Ralegan Siddhi: Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi has reached out to anti-corruption crusader Anna Hazare by writing a letter to the septuagenarian praising his effort for a strong Lokpal Bill.Anna Hazare, who is on Day
New Delhi: Speculation is rife in Congress circles about party vice-president Rahul Gandhi's anointment as prime ministerial candidate at a special strategy session here today. Close on the heels of electoral debacle in Delhi, Rajasthan,
New Delhi: Citing the support of BJP to the Lokpal Bill, Congress today hoped that UPA's outside ally Samajwadi Party will reconsider its opposition to the anti-graft measure.“Compliment Rahul Gandhi for coming out strongly in
New Delhi: The Lokpal Bill appeared to be on the verge of being passed in Rajya Sabha on Monday, with Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi today appealing to all political parties to set aside differences to
New Delhi: Rahul Gandhi is very keen on early passage of the Lokpal Bill which seeks to create an anti-corruption watchdog, Congress leaders said today in the backdrop of Anna Hazare's fast and AAP making
New Delhi: Putting up a brave face after the “unexpected scale of defeat” in the assembly polls, Congress today said it should not be “written off” in the Lok Sabha polls as Rahul Gandhi reached
New Delhi: After BJP declined, and Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi didn't rule possibility of alliance with Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), to form the next Delhi government, Delhi's Lt Governor Najeeb Jung invited AAP's Arvind
Raipur: Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Raman Singh today said the poor show by Congress in the recent assembly polls is the defeat of Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi because he was the face of party's poll
New Delhi: The issue of extending support to Arvind Kejriwal's AAP is “under consideration”, Congress Vice-President Rahul Gandhi said today.His remarks came at a time when Delhi Lt Governor Najeeb Jung has started efforts to
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