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 MoreCiting a complaint filed against Rahul Gandhi, the BJP Saturday raised questions on the Congress president's citizenship and educational qualification, and asked him to come clean on the matter.
Priyanka Gandhi was addressing a public rally in Wayanad, Kerala. Rahul Gandhi was present at the rally as well.
As the political blitzkrieg picks up, Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Congress chief Rahul Gandhi have upped the ante. In separate rallies in Bihar today, PM Modi and Rahul Gandhi trained guns at each other.
"The Congress gave 'Jatiwad aur Parivarwad' (casteism and dynasty politics) to the county and today it is the cause of embarrassment and dishonour to the party itself," BJP spokesperson Sudhanshu Trivedi said.
Addressing an election meeting in Gujarat's Chota Udepur, Shah listed achievements of the Narendra Modi government and accused the Congress of creating hurdles in the path of development of BJP-ruled Gujarat.
Congress chief Rahul Gandhi recently, in an election rally, said 'all thieves have Modi as their surname'. His statement alluded to Prime Minister Narendra Modi -- his arch rival, Nirav Modi -- an absconding diamantaire and Lalit Modi -- a tainted sports administrator.
The former prime minister heaped praise for the Gandhi family and spoke about the JD(S) coalition with Congress.
Priyanka Chaturvedi posted her resignation letter on Twitter -- that she had tendered to party president Rahul Gandhi late last night. She tweeted: "I am absolutely overwhelmed and grateful with the love and support I have got across board from the nation in the past 3 days. I consider myself blessed with this immense outpouring of support. Thank you to all who have been a part of this journey."
The tweet has a video attached to it that recounts the alleged corruption scams under the regime of former prime minister Rajiv Gandhi.
Addressing an election rally here, Gandhi targeted Modi on a range of issues including jobs and problems faced by farmers.
Addressing a campaign rally at Vanthli in Junagadh district, he also accused Prime Minister Narendra Modi of applying different rules to the rich and the poor.
Rahul Gandhi said the Congress after forming government in Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan fulfilled its promise of farm loan waivers.
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The senior Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader told the media here that his lawyer filed the case in the Chief Judicial Magistrate's (CJM) court in Patna under Section 500 of the IPC.
Rahul Gandhi said that neither he will confirm nor deny anything on Priyanka Gandhi's candidature from Varanasi. He further said that there should be a little "suspense" around certain things.
"Only because of dynasty politics and regional politics, this country developed in several states. We're not bothered about criticism from the BJP,” ANI quoted HD Kumaraswamy as saying after casting his vote in Ramanagara during the second phase of Lok Sabha elections 2019.
'Nyay' is a scheme, which the Congress party had introduced in its manifesto, which they released on April 3. This social welfare scheme promises to benefit over 5 crore families in India, which has lesser income than Rs 72,000 per annum.
AAP spokesperson Sanjay Singh told the media that AAP wanted to forge an alliance with the Congress in order to stop the BJP "but it seems the Congress is not interested".
The demand comes a day after the Election Commission served a notice to Himachal Pradesh Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) chief Satpal Satti for his alleged derogatory remarks against the Gandhi scion
This not an isolated case about slip of tongue. On Monday, the Supreme Court, acting on a petition by BJP MP Meenakshi Lekhi, issued notice to Rahul Gandhi for misleading the public by saying that the apex court has found the Prime Minister guilty of corruption in Rafale deal.
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