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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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'Will learn from this', says Rahul as Cong gets steamrolled in 5 states

Elections | Mar 10, 2022, 05:33 PM IST

Rahul Gandhi's comments came after the Congress failed to make a mark in the assembly election in Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Goa, and Manipur, and lost Punjab to the AAP.

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Punjab is 'AAP ka'! Arvind Kejriwal's party emerges as Congress' national replacement

Elections | Mar 10, 2022, 11:27 AM IST

Punjab Election 2022 Result: The Aam Aadmi Party led by Arvind Kejriwal appeared set for a landslide win in Punjab. 

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Defamation case for RSS remarks: Rahul Gandhi gets exemption from appearance

India | Mar 07, 2022, 04:45 PM IST

The court was to record the evidence of complainant Rajesh Kunte on Monday in the defamation case related to statements allegedly made by Gandhi against the RSS. 

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Exit Polls 2022: BJP shatters SP's UP dream, Congress just manages to win Punjab | Highlights

Elections | Mar 09, 2022, 04:03 PM IST

Exit Poll 2022: Ahead of the counting day on March 10, India TV brings you Exit Polls of 5 states to gauge the mood of people in -- Uttar Pradesh, Punjab, Uttarakhand, Goa, and Manipur -- where polling was held from February 10 to March 7.

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Rahul Gandhi's Twitter followers' count guided by external forces, alleges Congress

India | Mar 07, 2022, 12:11 PM IST

Rahul Gandhi on December 27, 2021, had flagged the issue and had written to Twitter CEO that the growth in his followers' count came to an abrupt halt for several months after suspension in August last year

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UP election 2022: Will not leave UP regardless of poll results says Priyanka Gandhi

Elections | Mar 05, 2022, 07:34 PM IST

Accusing her party rivals in general of practising politics of caste and religion and the BJP in particular of pursuing “hollow nationalism”, Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra said she would stay put in the state and continue to fight for its people till the emergence of a true and correct change in its politics. 

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Get your petrol tanks filled before 'election offer' ends: Rahul's dig at Centre over fuel price hik

Elections | Mar 05, 2022, 06:39 PM IST

Congress has been accusing the BJP government of stalling the hike in fuel prices during elections and raising the prices soon after the polls are over.

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UP: Rahul visits Varanasi's Kashi Vishwanath temple, says PM seeks vote on basis of 'lies'

Elections | Mar 04, 2022, 09:54 PM IST

Rahul Gandhi alleged that Modi now doesn't speak on his earlier poll promises of doubling farmers' income and generating jobs for youths, whereas there is "no mismatch" in Congress' words and deeds.

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MEA briefs panel on Russia-Ukraine war; Opposition says 'support government's stand'

India | Mar 03, 2022, 02:49 PM IST

India has been evacuating its citizens through special flights from Ukraine's western neighbours such as Romania, Hungary and Poland as the Ukrainian airspace has been shut since February 24 due to the Russian military offensive.

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In Gujarat for Cong brainstorming session, Rahul Gandhi offers prayers at Dwarkadhish temple

India | Feb 26, 2022, 08:28 PM IST

Gandhi is in the state to take part in the Chintan Shivir, a brainstorming session organised by the Gujarat Congress, which began on Friday and will end on Sunday.

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'Disturbing': Rahul Gandhi shares video of Indian students taking shelter in bunkers | Watch

India | Feb 26, 2022, 11:33 AM IST

In an effort to evacuate stranded Indian nationals from war-hit Ukraine, Air India is operating two flights from Delhi to Bucharest (Romania) and Budapest (Hungary) today.

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UP election 2022: Non-Congress govts kept UP backward, forced people to migrate says Rahul Gandhi

Elections | Feb 25, 2022, 07:46 PM IST

Coming together for a joint rally at Kali Maidan in Amethi, which has long been the pocket borough of the party till Rahul Gandhi lost it to Smriti Irani in the 2019 Lok Sabha polls, the leaders asked people to vote for their own good and children, and not on emotional issues of caste and religion.

Congress interim chief Sonia Gandhi.

Sonia accuses BJP of meting step-motherly treatment to Raebareli, asks people to vote for Congress

Elections | Feb 21, 2022, 04:33 PM IST

Sonia Gandhi hit out at Prime Minister Narendra Modi and UP Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, accusing them of mismanagement during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Assam BJP youth wing files 1500 complaints against Rahul Gandhi over tweet excluding North East

India | Feb 15, 2022, 09:12 PM IST

The BJP leaders alleged that Rahul Gandhi had redrawn the map of the country as he considered India's geographical territory from Gujarat to West Bengal.

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Himanta Biswa Sarma draws flak for 'father-son' barb at Rahul Gandhi; criminal cases lodged

India | Feb 15, 2022, 06:53 AM IST

On Rahul Gandhi asking for proof of the surgical strike, Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma asked whether the BJP had ever demanded proof of Rahul Gandhi being the "son of former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi.

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Rahul Gandhi asks people not to 'experiment' in Punjab polls, choose Congress

Elections | Feb 14, 2022, 06:17 PM IST

Rahul Gandhi also promised that the drug problem would be wiped out from Punjab if his party returns to power. He added Punjab is a "sensitive" state, and it is only Congress that knows how to protect peace in the state.

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Rahul and Priyanka Gandhi enough to ruin Congress: Yogi Adityanath

Elections | Feb 14, 2022, 12:16 PM IST

BJP leaders often talk about the Congress' dynastic politics to target Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi Vadra. 

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Amid criticism, Assam CM defends his comments against Rahul Gandhi

India | Feb 13, 2022, 06:35 PM IST

In a series of tweets, Sarma posted several screenshots of news reports of the Congress' statements on the 2016 surgical strike and the appointment of Bipin Rawat as the army chief and the chief of defence staff among others.

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'Jinnah's ghost has entered Rahul Gandhi': Assam CM Himanta Sarma targets Congress leader, again

Elections | Feb 12, 2022, 08:53 PM IST

Yesterday, the BJP leader hit out at Rahul Gandhi for his doubts about India’s surgical strikes and vaccines against the coronavirus disease. Sarma said his party never asked for proof if Rahul was the son of former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi.

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'Who is that poor?': FM Sitharaman's dig at Rahul Gandhi's 2013 'state of mind' remark

India | Feb 11, 2022, 05:20 PM IST

Without naming Rahul Gandhi, the Finance Minister referred to the Congress leader's remarks on poverty to counter the criticism from Opposition leaders, including former finance minister P Chidambaram of the Budget leaving out the poor.

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