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Rahul Gandhi

Height: 1.71 m DOB: 19 June 1970

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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'Chop Modi' remark: Rahul Gandhi cancels Saharanpur rally

Politics | Mar 29, 2014, 12:16 PM IST

Saharanpur: Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi has called off Saharanpur rally following the arrest of Imran Masood who had made a controversial remark over Modi.Congress Lok Sabha candidate Imran Masood was on Saturday arrested on

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Modi, Sonia, Rahul to address rallies in Odisha

Politics | Mar 29, 2014, 07:28 AM IST

Bhubaneswar : Sonia and Rahul Gandhi and Narendra Modi, star campaigners of the Congress and the BJP, will campaign for their party candidates in Odisha.While Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi is scheduled to arrive March

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Nilekani more searched on Google than Karnataka poll veterans

Politics | Mar 28, 2014, 12:15 PM IST

Bangalore: Political greenhorn and Infosys co-founder Nandan Nilekani is more searched on Google than Karnataka's political veterans such as Siddaramaiah, B S Yeddyurappa and H D Deve Gowda.Chief Minister Siddaramaiah, BJP leader Yeddyurappa and Gowda

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Vadodara Congress president slams Modi's false propaganda

Politics | Mar 28, 2014, 10:58 AM IST

Vadodara: Congress's Vadodara city unit president Narendra Rawat today criticised BJP's prime ministerial nominee Narendra Modi for the latter's statement that the Congress changed its Vadodara candidate because he is a Dalit.Modi had made the

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Jaitley questions logic behind Rahul's BJP balloon jibe

Politics | Mar 28, 2014, 10:24 AM IST

Amritsar: A day after Rahul Gandhi's BJP balloon jibe, Arun Jaitely today wondered whether the Congress leader's remark was an “astrological prediction” or based on some rational political thinking and charged the Congressman of “living

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Live: BJP balloon will burst this time too, says Rahul at wardha (Maharashtra) rally

Politics | Mar 28, 2014, 05:14 PM IST

Wardha (Maharashtra): Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi today ridiculed BJP for floating their victory balloon in the ongoing election campaign and said that their balloon will burst this time too, the way it happened in

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Sonia's rally a matter of prestige, says Congress

Politics | Mar 28, 2014, 07:41 AM IST

New Delhi: The success of Congress president Sonia Gandhi's upcoming election rally in Delhi will be a matter of prestige, the party said Thursday."It is going to be a historic rally. A large crowd will

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In Pics: Narendra Modi's Gaya (Bihar) rally

Politics | Mar 28, 2014, 06:42 AM IST

New Delhi: Targeting Nitish Kumar, BJP Prime Ministerial candidate Narendra Modi today alleged that the Bihar Chief Minister had failed to prevent the terrorist attack at Bodh Gaya last year because of ‘vote bank' politics.

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Naveen dubs Congress, BJP leaders as migratory birds

Politics | Mar 27, 2014, 03:25 PM IST

Aska (Odisha): Dubbing Congress and BJP as ‘migratory birds' who visit Odisha only during elections, BJD chief Naveen Patnaik today said the two parties had all along ignored the interests of the state.”Leaders of both

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Kejriwal will address a rally in Amethi soon: Vishwas

Politics | Mar 27, 2014, 11:30 AM IST

Amethi: Aam Aadmi Party chief Arvind Kejriwal will soon address a rally at Amethi, the party's nominee from the constituency Kumar Vishwas said today.  Vishwas, who is contesting against sitting MP and Congress vice-president Rahul

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Congress bats for sexual minorities in manifesto

Politics | Mar 26, 2014, 07:02 PM IST

New Delhi: The Congress in its election manifesto released Wednesday promised to bring a new legislation to protect the rights of sexual minorities.Listing the legal reforms it plans to move in if voted again to

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A week after Modi, Rahul to visit Wardha

Politics | Mar 26, 2014, 06:33 PM IST

Nagpur (Maharashtra): Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi will visit Wardha in Maharashtra's Vidarbha region and address a public rally there Friday morning, a party announcement said Wednesday.Gandhi's trip comes a week after Bharatiya Janata Party's

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BJP's 'shehzadas' list runs long

Politics | Mar 26, 2014, 05:25 PM IST

New Delhi: Even as it attacks the Congress for its "dynastic politics", the BJP appears to be charting a similar course going by the number of sons and daughters of its leaders in the fray

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The Congress is Congress: Ravi Kishan

Politics | Mar 26, 2014, 03:52 PM IST

Mumbai: The Congress party "is out of shape right now", but "the Congress is Congress," said party candidate and Bhojpuri superstar Ravi Kishan, who wants to be part of "the movement to bring the Congress

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Ashok Chavan files papers, says his conscience clear on Adarsh

Politics | Mar 26, 2014, 02:46 PM IST

Nanded (Maha): Former Maharashtra Chief Minister Ashok Chavan, who had stepped down in the wake of the Adarsh scam, today filed nomination papers from Nanded Lok Sabha constituency.Brushing aside controversies surrounding him over Adarsh housing

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Priyanka visits Congress headquarters

Politics | Mar 26, 2014, 11:54 AM IST

New Delhi: Priyanka Gandhi Vadra tonight visited the Congress headquarters here to take stock of the preparations for the release of the party's election manifesto tomorrow.Accompanied by senior leaders Ahmed Patel, Motilal Vora and Janardhan

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Live reporting: Sonia, Rahul reject opinion polls, say Modi balloon will explode, release manifesto

Politics | Mar 26, 2014, 02:37 PM IST

New Delhi: Congress president Sonia Gandhi and party vice-president Rahul Gandhi today outrightly rejected all opinion polls saying that the party would prove the pollsters wrong the third consecutive time in the forthcoming Lok Sabha

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No advise needed from Digvijay on PM candidate: BJP

Politics | Mar 25, 2014, 04:39 PM IST

New Delhi: BJP today ridiculed Congress leader Digvijay Singh for his remark that Sushma Swaraj would be a better PM candidate than Narendra Modi, saying it did not need advise from a man who could

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Congress to release manifesto tomorrow

Politics | Mar 25, 2014, 04:26 PM IST

New Delhi: With Rahul Gandhi in the vanguard, Congress is expected to fall back upon left-of-centre politics focusing on welfare measures after pursuing a policy of economic liberalisation under Manmohan Singh for 10 years.  Widening

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Rahul holds deliberations with 150 young leaders on LS polls

Politics | Mar 25, 2014, 03:31 PM IST

New Delhi: Rahul Gandhi held deliberations with over 150 young leaders on the strategy for Lok Sabha polls and sought feedback on his primary experiment to select candidates in elections.Union Ministers RPN Singh, Sachin Pilot,

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