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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The party is in election mode and will start the work of putting up a manifesto and draw strategy for publicity and coordination, said Ashok Gehlot.
Lok Sabha elections 2019: On being asked about alliances in West Bengal, Gandhi said: "You are asking me strategic questions. We are working out a broad coalition. In Bengal, we have an organisation. I tend towards asking my unit in Bengal and letting them decide. We are having those conversations. So, it's not decided yet."
Once again raising the job issue Gandhi said China creates 50,000 jobs a day, while India creates only 450.
The complaint was filed by advocate Sudhir Kumar Ojha in the court of Chief Judicial Magistrate Hari Prasad in Muzaffarpur.
Reiterating his charge that the Chinese were still present in Doklam, Rahul Gandhi expressed surprise over PM Modi allegedly not including the issue in the agenda during his discussion with President Xi Jinping.
In an interaction with the National Indian Students and Alumni Union (UK) at the London School of Economics, Gandhi spoke of alleged corruption in the Rafale deal, accusing Prime Minister Narendra Modi of favouring a businessman who had no experience in manufacturing aircraft.
In 2013, the then PM Manmohan Singh had tendered an apology in the Parliament for the violence. UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi too had expressed regrets.
Gandhi, who was asked questions about the next Lok Sabha elections, said it will be "pretty straightforward" contest between "Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on one side and the entire opposition on the other".
The Congress leader said he cannot stand someone being disrespected by someone because the person is not in power.
Launching a scathing attack on the RSS on foreign soil, Rahul Gandhi alleged that the ideological mentor of the BJP is trying to “change” the nature of India and “capture” its institutions.
BJP added that Congress party is identified with the 1984 anti-Sikh riots.
"Doklam is not an isolated issue. It was a part of a sequence of events, it was a process. Prime Minister is episodic. He views Doklam as an event. If he was carefully watching the process, he could've stopped it," Rahul Gandhi said.
Addressing the Indian Overseas Congress in Berlin, Germany, Rahul Gandhi said both BJP and RSS are spreading hatred in India while asserting that his party would not let that to happen.
Jeering the Congress party, BJP's official twitter handle immediately re-tweeted the post and said, "Even we couldn't resist retweeting this."
Rahul Gandhi is presently on a four-day tour of the United Kingdom and Germany.
"The mysterious death and hurried burial without an autopsy, of the key witness in the Unnao rape and murder case, involving BJP MLA Kuldeep Sengar, smells of a conspiracy," Rahul Gandhi tweeted.
Addressing a press conference in New Delhi, BJP spokesperson Sambit Patra said Rahul Gandhi has tarnished India's image.
Addressing a gathering at the Bucerius Summer School in Hamburg in Germany, Gandhi said the BJP government has excluded tribals, Dalits and minorities from the development narrative and "this could be a dangerous thing".
In his address in Hamburg, Germany, Gandhi traced the creation of ISIS to warn against a similar situation at home if people are excluded from the development process.
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