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Rahul Gandhi

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  • Born 19 June 1970
  • Age 54
  • Birth Place New Delhi, Delhi India
  • Profession Politician
  • Political Party Indian National Congress
  • In Office President Of The Indian National Congress 16 December 2017 - 10 August 2019, Vice President Of The Indian National Congress 19 January 2013 - 16 December 2017, General Secretary Of Indian National Congress 25 September 2007 - 19 January 2013, Chairperson Of National Students' Union Of India 25 September 2007 - 26 October 2022
  • Residence 10, Janpath, New Delhi

Rahul Gandhi BIOGRAPHY

Last Updated : 11 Feb 2025
As the country approaches the 2024 General Elections, one leader who could be seen as one of the biggest challenges to Prime Minister Narendra Modi's reign is Rahul Gandhi. Rahul's growing popularity was recently witnessed when he ...

Rahul Gandhi PERSONAL LIFE

Father Rajiv Gandhi
Mother Sonia Gandhi
Spouse no value
Education Rollins College (B.A.), Trinity College, Cambridge (M. Phil. Development Studies)

POSITIONS HELD BY Rahul Gandhi

Position Tenure
Leader of the Opposition in the Lok Sabha 9 June 2024 - Present
Member of the 18th Lok Sabha 4 June 2024 - Present
Member of the 17th Lok Sabha 30 May 2019 - 23 March 2023
Member of the 16th Lok Sabha N/A
Member of the 15th Lok Sabha N/A
Member of the 14th Lok Sabha 17 May 2004 - Present

RAHUL GANDHI NEWS

Brazilian model reacts after Rahul Gandhi's claim of Haryana electoral fraud

November 06, 2025 11:19 am

Brazilian model Larissa has reacted to Rahul Gandhi's claim of her photo allegedly being used for fake votes in Haryana. She said it's an old photo and she had no clue of it being misused.

Rahul Gandhi’s Haryana ‘vote chori’ claim puts spotlight back on duplicate voters — and a software EC stopped using

November 06, 2025 8:34 am

Behind the political noise is a technical story: a voter-roll clean-up tool that once worked, then quietly disappeared from the EC’s process.

No theft here: These names Rahul flagged have voted, with valid address and ID card

December 10, 2025 11:54 am

In Hodal, many homes on same plot, so same address; in Rai, Brazilian only on electoral rolls

'Congress should clarify about Brazilian model who Rahul claimed voted 22 times': Haryana BJP chief

November 05, 2025 8:21 pm

“Rahul Gandhi has used this particular timing (to make Haryana vote chori allegations), because Congress and its allies are seeing defeat in Bihar polls,” says Mohanlal Badoli

Who is the Brazilian model that Rahul Gandhi says voted 22 times in Haryana Assembly election?

November 05, 2025 10:20 pm

Displaying printouts of the electoral rolls during a press conference, Gandhi claimed the same image appeared across at least 10 booths in the constituency — under multiple names such as Seema, Sweety, Saraswati, Rashmi and Vilma.

Hooda on Rahul's Haryana 'vote chori' claims: 'Manipulation is exposed, for people to see now'

November 05, 2025 6:23 pm

“All this makes it even more important that the elections need to be conducted through ballot papers and not EVMs,” says the Haryana LoP

'Bid to divert attention from impending loss in Bihar polls': BJP slams Rahul Gandhi's Haryana voter fraud claims

November 06, 2025 3:32 am

On Wednesday, Rahul Gandhi had claimed that while the Congress lost the Haryana elections by 22,779 votes, 25 lakh votes were stolen using various methods.

Don't drag armed forces into politics, it has only one religion of 'sainya dharma': Rajnath Singh hits back at Rahul Gandhi

November 05, 2025 4:00 pm

Rajnath Singh accused Rahul Gandhi of trying to divide the armed forces along religious lines after the Leader of Opposition made a remark suggesting that even the Army is under the control of 10 per cent of the population.

Rahul Gandhi refers to 5 Haryana seats in ‘H-Files’. How did they vote?

November 05, 2025 3:14 pm

The BJP had won 4 of these seats in last year’s Assembly polls while the Congress had emerged victorious in 1

Behind claim that Haryana election ‘stolen’, Rahul points to 5 ‘methods’

November 06, 2025 3:31 am

Alleging that one in eight votes polled in Haryana elections were fake, Gandhi said that democracy was being destroyed by the Election Commission in collusion with the BJP

RAHUL GANDHI PHOTOS

Gujarat elections 2017: Rahul Gandhi meets Dalit and Patidar community leaders in Surat

November 03, 2017 10:17 pm

Patidar community leaders felicitated Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi with Patidar cap in public meeting in Varachhal area of Surat concluding the three day 'Navsarjan Yatra' on Friday.

NTPC plant boiler explosion: Rahul Gandhi visits site in Rae Bareli

November 03, 2017 7:01 am

Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi halted his ‘Navsarjan Yatra’ in poll-bound Gujarat to visit the NTPC explosion site in Uttar Pradesh's Rae Bareli district. He also visited the victims at the district hospital and met the next of kin of the deceased.

Rahul Gandhi in Gujarat: Congress vice-president takes on Modi over demonetisation, GST

November 02, 2017 10:39 am

Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi started his ‘Navsarjan Yatra’ from Jambusar on Wednesday. Gandhi, who is on a three-day visit to Gujarat, took on Modi over GST and demonetisation. "None of Modiji’s industrialists will pay 28 per cent GST on goods, common people will. You will,” Gandhi told people. He also said, "Demonetisation had destroyed the country's economy."

India top news live updates: Talwars acquitted in Aarushi case, Mukul Roy's resignation, Oommen Chandy in solar scam

October 12, 2017 3:57 pm

From the Aarushi Talwar murder case verdict to Rahul Gandhi's rally in Gujarat to Oommen Chandy in the solar scam case. Here are the top news updates of the week in pictures.

Rahul Gandhi mocks PM in Gujarat: 'Modiji will send every Gujarati to the moon'

October 12, 2017 12:56 pm

Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi, whose last stop was a public address in Fagvel in Kheda, mocked PM Modi for ‘selling dreams to the poor’s, saying that by 2030, Modi will bring the moon to India.’

Rahul Gandhi shakes leg with tribal dancers in Gujarat's Bodeli

October 10, 2017 9:42 pm

Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi participated in ‘Timli’ dance, in Chhota Udaipur district.

Rahul Gandhi, Amit Shah trade barbs in their respective turfs

October 10, 2017 6:30 pm

Amit Shah said, "PM Modi launched a surgical strike within 30 days of Uri attack. But Rahul Gandhi cannot see surgical strikes, because his glasses are Italian."

On the road with Congress' Rahul Gandhi in poll-bound Gujarat

September 26, 2017 3:33 pm

Rahul Gandhi is also scheduled to campaign in north, central and south Gujarat in the coming few weeks.

Rahul Gandhi in poll-bound Gujarat: Glimpses from his Saurashtra campaign

September 25, 2017 8:46 pm

Congress Vice-President Rahul Gandhi alleged that youths of the country were not getting employment and farmers were being denied remunerative prices for their farm produce.

On visit to flood-hit Gujarat, Rahul Gandhi's car pelted with stones

August 04, 2017 5:37 pm

A stone was thrown at the car in which Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi was travelling during his tour to the flood-affected Banaskantha district of Gujarat on Friday. Congress has blamed the BJP for the attack.

RAHUL GANDHI VIDEOS

National Herald case: Sonia, Rahul exempted from personal appearance

February 12, 2016 10:13 am

New Delhi, Feb 12 (ANI): The Supreme Court on Friday refused to quash the trail court proceedings against the five Congress leaders but exempted party president Sonia Gandhi and vice-president Rahul Gandhi from personal appearance. Senior lawyer Abhishek Manu Sighvi, who is fighting the Herald case for Gandhi’s, expressed his delight and said that it is a big relief for the family, as every inference and conclusion in the High Court has been rendered inoperative. He further added that every point argued in the High Court has been left open for them by the apex court to argue again at the stage of framing charges.

Tributes paid to Siachen braveheart

February 11, 2016 2:33 pm

New Delhi, Feb 11 (ANI): Tributes poured in from across the country for the Siachen braveheart Lance Naik Hanamanthappa. Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar and three service chiefs paid their last respect to the Lance Naik at Brar Square in New Delhi on Thursday. Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal and Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia were also among others who paid their last respects to the Lance Naik. Hanamanthappa, who was miraculously found alive after remaining buried under huge mass of snow for six days at the Siachen Glacier, passed away at Army's Research and Referral Hospital at 11.45 a.m. today.

Why has no action been taken against Hyderabad university VC: Rahul Gandhi

January 23, 2016 3:27 pm

Mahoba (UP), Jan 23 (ANI): Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi on Saturday questioned Prime Minister Narendra Modi's late reaction on Rohith Vemula's death. He said if PM Modi got so emotional and even cried over the Dalit student's death, then why there has been no action against the VC? He added that this case shows Centre's mentality towards the Dalits and the minorities.

Focus attention on farmers affected by drought: Rahul Gandhi to Centre

January 23, 2016 12:39 pm

Mahoba, Jan 23 (ANI): Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi on Saturday addressed a gathering in Mahoba district of the Bundelkhand region and said that the government should focus its attention to Bundelhand's drought-affected farmers. He added that the Congress would urge the Narendra Modi-led Government to take steps to uplift lives of farmers in Bundelkhand.

Rahul Gandhi meets villagers in UP's Mahoba district

January 23, 2016 12:37 pm

Mahoba, Jan 23 (ANI): Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi met villagers in Mahoba district of the Bundelkhand region in Uttar Pradesh on Saturday. Earlier in the day, Rahul held a 'padyatra' in the drought-hit region. Drought conditions and unseasonable rains have destroyed winter crops in the area. In the past few years, several farmers have committed suicide due to poor crop production in Bundelkhand. The Congress vice-president will also hold meetings with women self-help group at the Supa railway station.

Rahul Gandhi accuses Bandaru Dattatreya, VC for scholar's suicide

January 19, 2016 11:25 am

Hyderabad, Jan 19 (ANI): Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday launched a scathing attack on the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led Government at the Centre over the suicide of a Dalit scholar in the Hyderabad University. He accused Minister of State for Labour and Employment Bandaru Dattatreya and varsity's Vice Chancellor of abetting the suicide of the scholar. Rahul, who interacted with the protesting students of the University of Hyderabad, said the varsity had used to its power to 'crush' the students, instead of allowing them to express themselves.

Amethi still distant from development: Smriti Irani

January 17, 2016 9:10 am

Amethi, Jan 17 (ANI): Union Human Resource and Development Minister (HRD) Smriti Irani on Sunday lashed out at the Congress for usurping the land meant for construction of schools and employment centres in Amethi. Irani said none of the departments were aware about how the land got transferred to ‘The Rajiv Gandhi Charitable Trust’. Irani further accused Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi of keeping his native election constituency far away from development. She said Rahul should answer the people of Amethi about his ignorant behaviour.

Gandhi pays tribute to veteran actor Sunil Dutt

January 16, 2016 9:09 am

Mumbai, Jan 16 (ANI): : Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi paid tribute to former Congress leader and veteran actor Sunil Dutt in Mumbai on Saturday. Rahul Gandhi, who started his 'Padyatra' from Bandra Bandstand to Dharavi, also addressed students of Narsee Monjee Institute of Management Studies (NMIMS).

Labels are human invention, not Universe’s: Rahul Gandhi at NMIMS

January 16, 2016 8:16 am

Mumbai, Jan 16 (ANI): Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi, while addressing the students of Narsee Monjee Institute of Management Studies (NMIMS), on Saturday said that they should not put labels on things and industries. He said that labels were human invention, not the Universe's. He added that as students, they should take their own perspective into account and then only they could succeed.

Man donates finger after Sonia, Rahul’s bail in National Herald case

January 10, 2016 8:51 am

Bengaluru, Jan 10 (ANI): Induvalu Suresh, a 35-year-old granite businessman from Ramanagara is now being hailed as Congress Ekalavya after he cut his left hand's little finger as an offering to the Tirupati. The offering was made as thanks giving after Congress president Sonia Gandhi and party vice-president Rahul Gandhi were granted bail in the National Herald case in December last year. On December 25, Suresh went to Tirupati, chopped off his little finger and dropped it in the hundi as a token of gratitude.

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