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 MoreA video clip of Congress leader and Wayanad MP Rahul Gandhi is viral with captions falsely claiming that Gandhi was insulted by a student when he asked about increasing unemployment under BJP rule at a rally in Dibrugarh, Assam recently.
During the interaction with the students of St. Teresa's College in Kochi, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi alleged that as the economy collapsed due to COVID-19 pandemic, Centre is forcibly taking money from common people to run the government.
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on March 20 again targeted central government over farm laws and accused them of not letting him speak in the Parliament.
You think democracy is declining. Youth is unemployed, farmers are protesting, CAA is there. We can't ask the people of Assam to forget their culture, language if they come to Delhi. One force,born in Nagpur, trying to control the whole country: Rahul Gandhi in Dibrugarh, Assam
Congress leader and former party president Rahul Gandhi during an election rally in Assam's Dibrugarh pitched for 'Made in Assam' products and said Congress wants to see "made in Assam and India" products, but BJP cannot do it as the party works only for industrialists.
Rahul Gandhi, during his interaction with college students at Dibrugarh district, said the saffron party was "selling hatred to create divisions among people"
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"There is a fundamental difference between what happened during the Emergency, which 'was wrong', and what is happening in the country now. The RSS is doing something fundamentally different. They are filling institutions with their people. Even if we defeat the BJP in the elections, we are not going to get rid of their people in the institutional structure," Rahul Gandhi said.
In a conversation with Kaushik Basu, professor in the Cornell University in the US and India's former chief economic advisor, Gandhi said he is all for internal democracy in the Congress, which fought for India's independence, gave the country its Constitution and stood for equality. Asked about his views on the Emergency, he said, "I think that was a mistake. Absolutely, that was a mistake. And my grandmother (Indira Gandhi) said as much."
Terming the Emergency that was imposed by former prime minister Indira Gandhi a "mistake", Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday said what happened during that period was "wrong", but it was fundamentally different from the current scenario as the Congress at no point attempted to capture the country's institutional framework.
During a roadshow in Tamil Nadu's Kanyakumari, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on March 01 criticized Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led government by saying that his govt doesn't respect Tamil culture.
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Congress leader Ghulam Nabi Azad during a "peace conference" in Jammu on February 27 said that he has retired from only Rajya Sabha, not from politics.
There has been systematic attack on elected institutions and free press that hold the nations together, said Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on February 27 at VOC College in Thoothukudi.
In the first-ever show of strength, the dissenters in the Congress (G23) shared a public platform in Jammu and participated in the Shanti Sammelan, raising internal issues of the Congress like party becoming weak in the past decade, leadership, while at the same time, sharing a piece of advice for the young generation.
While speaking to ANI in Patna on February 26, the former deputy chief minister of Bihar, Sushil Kumar Modi spoke on Congress leader Rahul Gandhi's 'North-South' remark.
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on February 24 took a dip into the sea with fishermen in Kerala's Kollam.k, may protect mobility in older women.
Congress leader Mallikarjun Kharge on February 25 endorsed Rahul Gandhi's remark in which he again called for separate ministry for fisheries.
Union Minister Giriraj Singh on Rahul Gandhi's claim of 'No fishery ministry in Delhi' said that the former should know that fisheries department has a budget of Rs 20,050 crore.
Notably, the Modi government after the 2019 Lok Sabha election had set up the Ministry of Fisheries, Animal Husbandry and Dairying. The ministry was formed from the department of same name under Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare.
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