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Read MoreThe Congress had alleged that the Jammu and Kashmir Police had withdrawn security around leader Rahul Gandhi in the wake of surging crowds during the foot march in Qazigund.
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The campaign will see participation from senior leaders as well as booth-level workers and they will highlight welfare schemes being run by the Bhupesh Baghel-led Congress government in the state.
Bharat Jodo Yatra: The yatra will enter Kashmir valley on Friday for its last leg before culminating in a rally in Srinagar on January 30. Ramesh said the yatra has passed through various districts of Jammu and covered almost 90 kilometres.
The same day, party general secretary Jairam Ramesh said, “the views expressed by Digvijaya Singh are his own and do not reflect the position of Congress. Surgical strikes were carried out before 2014 by the UPA government.
The Congress party had distanced itself from Singh's comments on Pulwama, including on the surgical strikes, terming his statement "personal".
The yatra, which started from Kanyakumari on September 7, entered Jammu and Kashmir from Punjab on Thursday and reached Jammu city on Monday.
The critical remarks from Singh came as Congress, since the start of the yatra, has been claiming that the incumbent government is fuelling hatred in the society and their yatra is meant to spread love and unite the society.
Sanjay Raut, who walked for nearly 13-km alongside Rahul Gandhi between Hatli Morh and Chandwal amid rain, said the BJP has spread a wrong notion about the Congress leader but this Yatra has busted all their myths about him.
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi represents Wayanad in Lok Sabha. He praised the Wayanad district administration after it became the first Indian district to digitise tribals' documents.
Rahul Gandhi was seen with short-sleeved white t-shirts even while passing places like Delhi, Punjab and Haryana amid biting cold.
Union Minister Jitendra Singh recalled how Congress leaders and its government conspired to stop BJP's yatra and violence was on the rage in Jammu and Kashmir in the 90s.
Deepika Pushkar Nath said she is leaving the party on ideological grounds as former minister Lal Singh was responsible for sabotaging the 2018 Kathua rape case by "brazenly defending" rapists of an eight-year-old nomadic girl.
The Congress leader also emphasized that he would accept a beheading but won't enter the RSS office.
Rahul Gandhi at a presser in Punjab's Hoshiarpur said that he will have to be beheaded before visiting an RSS office, adding his ideology differs from cousin and BJP leader Varun Gandhi.
Bharat Jodo Yatra in Punjab: In a video of the incident, the man wearing a jacket could be seen rushing towards the Congress MP and trying to embrace him.
Mann has been facing criticism from the opposition parties which allege that all major decisions of his government are being taken in Delhi by AAP national convener and Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal.
Bharat Jodo Yatra: Congress MP Chaudhary Santokh Singh on Saturday died of heart attack during leader Rahul Gandhi's Bharat Jodo Yatra in Punjab.
Bharat Jodo Yatra: While attacking the Punjab government and the Centre, Rahul Gandhi said 'Ludhiana can compete with China if small, medium businesses get support.'
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