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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Bengaluru: Attacking the Congress-led opposition for “deliberately spreading misgivings” about land bill, BJP today said the party should stop finding “non-existent” faults with the government and instead concentrate on finding its leader, a dig at
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New Delhi: Congress Vice-President and second-in-command Rahul Gandhi will be back in Delhi to address a rally against the Land Bill on April 19, party leader Digvijay Singh said today.Rahul Gandhi was missing from the
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Rae Bareli: Congress president Sonia Gandhi had to face some tough questions in connection with Rahul Gandhi's absence when she visited his Lok Sabha constituency – Amethi, today.Answering questions regarding his son's absence from Amethi,
New Delhi: Rahul Gandhi, who is likely to return from his mysterious sabbatical next month, is expected to take a call on when to assume the party's mantle, notwithstanding the fact that the schedule for
New Delhi: Congress today sought to ignore reports about posters surfacing in various parts of Uttar Pradesh taking digs at the month-long sabbatical of Rahul Gandhi.“The Congress Vice President will return in the proximate future,”
Lucknow: A month after Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi went on a sabbatical; posters have come up in his Lok Sabha constituency Amethi hailing its “lost MP”.The posters announcing reward for one who finds Rahul
New Delhi: The Congress, in an effort to expand its media outreach, on Tuesday brought in many articulate and young faces as spokespersons while appointing Ajay Maken, CP Joshi, Satyavrat Chaturvedi and Shakeel Ahmed as
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