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.
Read MoreFarmers' agitation is still continuing even after the government accepted the demand to repeal all three farm laws.
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Congress leader Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury said that Mamata Banerjee's strength has increased as Prime Minister Narendra Modi is behind her.
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The 12 MPs suspended for the remaining part of the Winter Session are from the Congress (6), two each from the TMC and Shiv Sena and one each from the CPM and the CPI.
Rahul Gandhi said that manner in which farm laws have been repealed without debate shows the government afraid of discussion.
The Congress and other opposition parties have been demanding that the farm laws be repealed on the first day of the Winter Session itself.
Gandhi's remarks come amid rising global concerns over the new strain of the deadly virus that has been named ‘Omicron’ by the World Health Organization and classified as a variant of concern.
Rahul Gandhi shared a video in which families, who lost their dear ones due to COVID in Gujarat, alleged that they did not receive timely help from the govt.
Tanwar was a close aide of Rahul Gandhi. In February this year, Tanwar launched a new political party 'Apna Bharat Morcha'.
The opposition party also accused the BJP of giving lessons on national security to the entire country while digressing from addressing the serious issue that affected India's integrity and sovereignty.
Noting that the struggle is not over yet, Rahul Gandhi asked Prime Minister Narendra Modi not to dare again to conspire to make farmers slaves in their own land by playing into the hands of a few capitalists and urged him to work towards fulfilling his promise of doubling farmers' income by 2022.
Farm Laws Repealed: Congress spokesperson Randeep Surjewala said that the agitation has won and the arrogance has lost.
Rahul Gandhi said that farmers satyagraha defeated arrogance as he referred to PM Narendra Modi's announcement about the government's decision to repeal the three farm laws.
Captain Amarinder Singh quit the Congress on November 2 and accused Sonia Gandhi, Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi Vadra of hatching a "midnight conspiracy" to oust him from the state government.
Jaiswal, who was formerly the BJP’s chief whip in the Lok Sabha, said Gandhi’s attempts to distinguish Hinduism from Hindutva was “height of ignorance” and a reflection on the belief of the Congress in the dictum of “divide and rule”.
The BJP launched a scathing attack on the Congress over its leader Salman Khurshid reportedly comparing Hindutva with the jihadist Islam of terrorist groups such as ISIS and Boko Haram in his latest book, saying the opposition party has not only hurt Hindus but also the soul of India.
Chief of Defence Staff Bipin Rawat on Thursday said the controversy about the Chinese coming into the Indian territory and building a new village is not true and that the villages were well within the Chinese side of the LAC.
BJP has accused the Congress of spreading hatred and creating division in the society as it sought to know Sonia Gandhi's views on Salman Khurshid's new book.
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