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 MoreFollowing years and months of bitter dual with Punjab Pradesh Congress Committee President Navjot Singh Sidhu, Captain Amarinder Singh resigned as Chief Minister and raised serious questions against Sidhu.
Congress veteran Amarinder Singh on Saturday resigned as chief minister of Punjab, capping months of a power tussle that had polarised the ruling party in the state headed for elections in just about four months.
Captain Amarinder Singh on Saturday resigned as Punjab Chief Minister ahead of the crucial Congress Legislature Party meeting in Chandigarh today. The development comes amid the ongoing power battle with Punjab Pradesh Congress Committee President Navjot Singh Sindhu that have created differences in the party.
Tharoor was part of the Group of 23 Congress leaders, who last year wrote a letter to Sonia asking for sweeping changes in the party.
India broke all previous records administering over 2 crore COVID-19 vaccine doses in a day on Friday registering a phenomenal feat.
The Congress in West Bengal declined to attach much importance to the assertions of the TMC, saying it is too early to predict who will become an alternative face to Modi.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi is celebrating his 71st birthday today. Born in Gujarat in 1950, PM Modi joined Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) at an early age and was later drafted into the BJP.
Speaking at an event of the All India Mahila Congress, Rahul Gandhi had hit out at the RSS-BJP accusing them of using Hindu sentiments for political gains.
Addressing the foundation day of the All India Mahila Congress, Gandhi said that the ideology of the Congress was completely opposite of the BJP-RSS and only one of the two ideologies can rule the country.
Rahul Gandhi quit as the Congress president in 2019 after the Lok Sabha elections drubbing without waiting for the election of a new party chief.
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi and Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath were involved in an intense verbal duel on Tuesday. It all started with Rahul Gandhi's tweet mocking the BJP leader.
Taking to Twitter, Gandhi tagged a media report on US auto major Ford deciding to stop vehicle manufacturing in India which quoted an industry insider as saying that over 4,000 small firms could shut down.
Gandhi cited that several terror-related incidents, similar to the Mumbai attack, had taken place during the Narendra Modi government, but it was not criticised by the media the same way as the UPA was, sources said.
BJP national spokesperson Sambit Patra, in a press conference, alleged the Congress, for its petty vote bank politics, sacrificed not only the Kashmiri Pandits but also the development of the region.
Kanhaiya Kumar had contested Lok Sabha elections in 2019 on a CPI ticket from Bihar's Begusarai. He, however, lost to BJP's firebrand leader Giriraj Singh.
Rahul Gandhi, who is on a two-day visit to Jammu, said he belongs to a family of Kashmiri Pandits, adding that he would help the community.
The education minister's response came a day after the former Congress president called for the postponement of the NEET examination as many other exams are scheduled around September 12.
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi will pay obeisance at Mata Vaishno Devi temple in Jammu on Thursday.
Rahul Gandhi's tweet comes a day after the Supreme Court had turned down a petition to defer the NEET exam, which is scheduled for September 12.
The resolution was passed unanimously on the final day of the two-day national executive meeting of IYC in Goa, the Congress youth wing said in a statement.
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