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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Congress leader Rahul Gandhi will retain the Rae Bareli Lok Sabha constituency in Uttar Pradesh and vacate his Wayanad seat in Kerala from where his sister Priyanka Gandhi Vadra will make her electoral debut.
Rahul Gandhi had won from Wayanad and Rae Bareli Lok Sabha constituencies and he has to vacate one of the seats within 14 days of the Lok Sabha results, which came out on June 4.
Gandhi's X post marked as the return of EVMs debate in the political circles. The opposition parties have been raising concerns over EVMs for some time now. They had demanded a 100 per cent count of the VVPAT slips which was not allowed.
It was claimed that Rahul Gandhi posed with the CISF constable who allegedly slapped actor-politician Kangana Ranaut. The claim turned out to be false.
Rahul Gandhi won both Rae Bareli and Wayanad by a margin of 3,90,030 and 3,64,422 votes respectively. The Congress leader is yet to decide which seat he will represent as MP.
Fact Check: A video of Congress leader Rahul Gandhi watching PM Modi taking oath as the Indian Prime Minister for the third time is going viral on social media. However, the truth is something else.
After the Congress clinched both the seats of Amethi and Raebareli, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi Vadra held a thanks-giving program in UP's Raebareli. They also credited unity between Samajwadi Party and Congress for the win.
The alliance between Congress and Aam Aadmi Party under the INDIA bloc may break ahead of the upcoming Assembly election in Haryana. Both the parties are also not likely to contest together in Delhi next year.
The Congress party won election from both the Lok Sabha seats including Rae Bareli and Amethi. The two constituencies have remained a stronghold of the Grand Old Party for long, however, in 2019, BJP's Smriti Irani defeated Rahul Gandhi but in this election, Congress reclaimed the seat.
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Sheikh Hasina was in the national capital to attend the swearing-in ceremony of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and is expected to return to her country on Monday. She arrived on Saturday and joined other foreign leaders at a banquet hosted by President Murmu after the glittering ceremony.
Chaudhry had earlier criticised Prime Minister Narendra Modi and said that the Indian leader and his "extreme ideology" need to be defeated. He also extended support to Congress leader Rahul Gandhi and AAP's Arvind Kejriwal during the elections.
CWC meeting: KC Venugopal said that the revival of Congress has begun, and the atmosphere in the Congress Working Committee is entirely different now from what it was four months back.
Rahul Gandhi won both Rae Bareli and Wayanad by a margin of 3,90,030 and 3,64,422 votes respectively. The Congress leader is yet to decide which seat he will represent as MP.
A section within the party strongly feels that former Congress chief Rahul Gandhi should take over as leader of the party and opposition in the Lok Sabha. The issue is likely to be discussed in the meetings of the CWC and the Parliamentary Party.
CWC meeting: The party will also hold meeting of Congress Parliamentary Party comprising all newly elected Lok Sabha MPs and Rajya Sabha MPs followed by a dinner at Hotel Ashok at 7:00 pm.
The post of the Leader of Opposition is vacant for past 10 years as all the opposition parties lacked to fulfil the criteria required. As Congress has got the numbers to make LoP, leaders are pitching for the Gandhi scion.
Earlier, the Bengaluru court exempted the appearance of Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on June 1 but stated that he must be present on June 7.
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