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 MoreSix out of 10 assembly seats in Amethi and Rae Bareli parliamentary constituencies -- long considered Congress strongholds -- have gone to the BJP while two went to the Samajwadi Party, leaving the grand old party gasping with just two.
Two years after its worst defeat in Lok Sabha elections so far, the Congress party disappointed once again, managing to just bag seven of 104 seats it contested in the 403-strong Uttar Pradesh assembly.
After Congress party’s poor show and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) emerging as a clear majority in the Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand assembly elections, Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi congratulated Prime Minister Narendra Modi on the victory.
Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi today extended his wishes to Prime Minister Narendra Modi for registering a massive win in the Uttar Pradesh assembly elections. Powered by an aggressive campaign spearheaded by Modi, BJP candidates
The Uttar Pradesh election results not only underline Rahul Gandhi’s failure, but also that of Priyanka Gandhi who was part of the poll strategy, Union minister Smriti Irani said on Saturday.
Proving exit polls which projected a close fight between the Congress and debutant Aam Aadmi Party wrong, the grand-old-party today forged ahead in 76 of the 117 seats in the state Assembly.
In the wake of the poor showing in the Uttar Pradesh assembly polls, Congress veteran Digvijaya Singh today said that there was no question of party vice president Rahul Gandhi stepping down.
With trends showing a clear majority for the BJP in Uttar Pradesh and a severe drubbing for the SP-Congress alliance limiting it below the 100-mark figure, the Congress party today jumped into the defence of
The BJP today registered a stunning victory in Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand, trampling a fragmented opposition that had hoped the demonetisation exercise would have chipped away at Prime Minister Narendra Modi's popularity.
BJP gave a tough fight to Congress in Manipur and managed to finish second in Goa, where it was facing anti-incumbency.
Rejecting the exit poll results for the Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections, Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi today said that the actual results will be entirely different.
Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday questioned Prime Minister's silence on a string of racist attacks on Indians abroad.
Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi went all out to attack Narendra Modi and said the Prime Minister has grown old and must be feeling tired.
Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi has said the Narendra Modi government's decision to demonetise high-value currency notes was a "fundamental failure of policy design".
Varanasi is set to witness a clash of titans as Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav, BSP supremo Mayawati and Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi will be in this temple town for campaigning.
At a rally in Uttar Pradesh’s Maharajganj on Wednesday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi mocked Congress leader Rahul Gandhi for his reported "coconut juice" remark. Now, he is under attack by the opposition party for "lying".
PM Modi today mocked Rahul Gandhi saying the Congress had some talented people who would sell coconut juice in London and set up potato factories in UP.
Naidu said the comments were coming from a person who does not come to Parliament and "disappears suddenly" from the country
Former Union Minister P Shivshankar passed away in Hyderabad on Monday after prolonged illness.
Peeved over BJP’s repeated criticism over former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s feeble voice, Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi today said that Prime Minister Narendra Modi was "feebler even than that of a mouse".
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