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 MoreBJP termed Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi's comments against PM Modi as 'shameful'
According to RBI, Rs 15.44 lakh crore of notes taken out of circulation, Rs 15.28 lakh crore, or almost 99 pc, had returned to the system by way of deposits by the public.
Earlier in the day, the Supreme Court held that the right to privacy is a fundamental right and is an integral part of the right to life and liberty.
The rally suffered successive setbacks on Tuesday as Congress President Sonia Gandhi and Vice President Rahul Gandhi expressed their inability to attend the rally
Rahul Gandhi today met some bereaved families of children who died at the Baba Raghav Das (BRD) Medical College last week and expressed his sympathies.
Rahul Gandhi is visiting BRD hospital in Gorakhpur today. More than 70 infants have died in this state-run hospital since August 7 allegedly due to disruption of oxygen supply – a claim the state government has dismissed.
Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday launched the Karnataka government's subsidised food canteens 'Indira Canteen' in Bengaluru.
Rahul, who was in Bengaluru to inaugurate the party’s initiative to launch ‘Indira canteens’ that promise to offer lunch and dinner to poor people at subsidised rates, asked Narendra Modi to ‘start acting and operating like a Prime Minister’.
Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi will inaugurate the first canteen on Kanakanapalya Main Road in Jayanagar. He is also scheduled to address a public rally after inaugurating the Indira Canteen.
Rahul Gandhi today hit out at the Modi government over farmer and unemployment issues, accusing it of making "hollow" and "false" promises".
The Home minister said the nation as well as the House want to know what Rahul Gandhi wants to hide by not taking SPG protection along, when he left India on six occasions totalling 72 days
Gandhi has not visited his parliamentary constituency for six months now, leading to anger and disappointment among the voters, people in Amethi said
Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi today condemned the Chandigarh stalking incident and urged the BJP government to "punish the guilty."
Rahul faced protests in the flood-hit Gujarat district yesterday and a cement brick was hurled at his car, breaking its window panes.
Rahul escaped unhurt after some unidentified persons threw a stone at the car in which he was travelling, breaking the glass pane of the rear window of the vehicle.
On Friday, Rahul had faced hostile black-flag waving crowds shouting slogans in favour of Prime Minister Narendra Modi during his tour of flood hit Dhanera town in Gujarat's Banaskantha district, forcing him to beat a retreat.
“Attack on me was carried out by the BJP, RSS people. This is their, and PM Modi’s, way of politics,” Rahul Gandhi said.
Gujarat Chief Minister Vijay Rupani hit out at Rahul Gandhi saying ‘people know the tricks of the Congress rather too well’.
Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi's car was also pelted with stones, shattering some windows.
During the visit, Gandhi is scheduled to take a tour of Banaskantha and Patan districts, which are the worst affected regions in the recent floods in the state in 70 years.
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