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 More"The chowkidar is a thief and is frightened since he will be exposed in the debate. He will not be able to show his face to the country," Rahul Gandhi said.
The report and its ramifications should be top of the agenda for Congress president Rahul Gandhi, who is contesting the Lok Sabha elections from Wayanad, said his colleague Jairam Ramesh.
Addressing a rally ahead of the fourth and last phase of Lok Sabha polls in Madhya Pradesh,Gandhi also said Modi should stop talking about "clouds and mangoes" and tell people about issues which matter.
PM Narendra Modi is drawing flak for his comments suggesting that cloud cover helped Indian fighter jets evade Pakistani radars during Balakot Airstrikes.
The day of result of the ongoing Lok Sabha polls is just a few days away and the parties are leaving no stone unturned to garner as much as attention and affection from the crowds as possible. To this end, PM Modi will address four election rallies in UP, Bihar and Chandigarh today.
Monday kickstarted with a lot of buzz in the political circles, starting from Kamal Haasan's controversial remarks to Rahul Gandhi bashing Sam Pitroda over "hua to hua" comments on 1984 anti-Sikh riots and finally culminating with KCR's meeting with DMK President MK Stalin. We bring to you an election wrap of May 13 in 10 points:
Sam Pitroda had sparked a controversy by his 'hua-toh-hua’ statement on 1984 anti-Sikh riots. Pitroda, a close aide of Rahul Gandhi and Overseas Congress' head made the remark in response to a question on the riots by a newsman in Dharamshala in Himachal Pradesh.
The Lok Sabha polls are just a few days away and the parties are leaving no stone unturned to garner as much as attention and affection from the crowds as possible. To this end, PM Modi will address three election rallies today. Rahul Gandhi is also slated to rally in Punjab on Monday.
In an interview to Indian Express, PM Narendra Modi targetted Rahul Gandhi mentioning consensus among the elite to detroy his image.
Interacting to reporters after casting her vote along with her husband, Robert Vadra, she said: "If he (Modi) had done even 50 hours of tapasya, he would not have made such hate-filled comments."
Indu Goswami said the Congress, by issuing such statements, wants to show that the women, who constitute around half of the country's population, are "weak".
Bachan Singh cannot talk like the way he did before, but he knows how important his vote is. "I will vote for those who worked for us," he said.
“The election was fought on key issues including demonetization, farmer problems, Gabbar Singh Tax and corruption in Rafale,” said Rahul Gandhi.
The average poll percentage was 9.28 per cent, a state election office spokesperson said.
The grand old party right from days of Jawaharlal Nehru to Indira Gandhi and Rajiv Gandhi has been "befooling" countrymen in the name of ending poverty said Rajnath Singh
Over 10.17 crore voters will decide the fate of 979 candidates in the sixth phase of Lok Sabha elections. The Election Commission has set up 1.13 lakh polling stations for the smooth conduct of elections.
A gritty fight between state BJP chief Dilip Ghosh and Manas Bhunia, a seasoned politician who jumped ship form the Congress to the Trinamool Congress in 2016, and a father-son duo contesting from two neighbouring seats laden with the memories of 'Quit India' movement also headline the polling scene on the morrow.
"Thousands of Sikhs were killed mercilessly. The then prime minister Rajiv Gandhi justified it. No one was punished. Manmohan Singh was made (by the Congress) to apologise. What Sam Pitroda has said exposes the Congress' mindset," said BJP president Amit Shah
Rahul Gandhi on Saturday alleged the BJP, RSS and Prime Minister Narendra Modi had hatred in their hearts for his family, but he would continue to hug the PM as hate could only be defeated by love.
Describing the image, Gandhi wrote the helicopter had encountered a problem which was later fixed due to good teamwork.
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