Rahul Gandhi (Indian Politician) Biography

The son of late Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi, Congress President Sonia Gandhi, grandson of Indira Gandhi, the first female Prime Minister of India, and great-grandson of Jawaharlal Nehru, the first Prime Minister of India– Rahul Gandhi was recently arrested. Check his biography here. 

Rahul Gandhi Biography: Education, Politics, Personal Life

Rahul Gandhi was born to Rajiv Gandhi and Sonia Gandhi on the 19th of June, 1970. For the time being, he is the President of the Indian National Congress. In addition, Rahul Gandhi is the chair of the National Students’ Union of India and the Indian Youth Congress, two significant positions of authority. In the past, he served as the All India Congress Committee’s general secretary. Since 2004, Rahul Gandhi has served as a member of parliament for the Amethi, Uttar Pradesh parliamentary seat in the Lok Sabha. In January 2013, Rahul Gandhi was appointed Vice President of the Indian National Congress. On December 16, 2017, he took over as the party’s leader. In the past, he served on the Ministry of Civil Aviation Consultative Committee and the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Home Affairs and Human Resource Development. He is presently a member of the External Affairs Parliamentary Standing Committee. In addition, Rahul Gandhi serves as a trustee for the Rajiv Gandhi Foundation and the Rajiv Gandhi Charitable Trust

Rahul Gandhi Biography:

Name:	Rahul Gandhi
Date of Birth:	19 June 1970
Place of Birth:	Delhi
Age:	52 Years
Education:	M.A. M.Phil from Trinity College, Cambridge in 1995
Father’s Name:	Rajiv Gandhi
Mother’s Name:	Sonia Gandhi
Sibling:	Priyanka Vadra
Marital Status:	Unmarried
Profession:	Politician
Political Party:	Indian National Congress
Important Achievements:	President of Indian National Congress Chairperson of the Indian Youth Congress Chairperson of National Students’ Union of India General Secretary of Indian National Congress Member of Parliament Lok Sabha for Amethi Vice-President of the Indian National Congress

Rahul Gandhi: Education:

On June 19, 1970, Rahul Gandhi was born in Delhi, India. Before enrolling in The Doon School in Dehradun, Uttarakhand, from 1981 to 1983, he attended St. Columba’s School in Delhi. For security purposes, Rahul Gandhi and his sister Priyanka were homeschooled following the assassination of Indira Gandhi. He enrolled in St. Stephen’s College in Delhi in 1989 in order to pursue his graduation degree, and after a year, he transferred to Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts. After Rajiv Gandhi was killed by the Tamil Tigers (LTTE) in 1991 during an electoral rally, he was moved for security reasons to Rollins College in Florida, USA, where he assumed the name “Rahul Vinci” to conceal his identity. He had graduated from Rollins College with a Bachelor of Arts in 1994. At Cambridge, England’s Trinity College, he completed his M.Phil.

Rahul Gandhi: Political Journey:

• In March 2004, Rahul Gandhi declared his intention to enter Indian politics. Rahul Gandhi had a remarkable triumph and garnered over one lakh votes in the Amethi, Uttar Pradesh, constituency, where his father, Rajiv Gandhi, was a contestant in the election.
• On September 24, Rahul Gandhi was named General Secretary of the All India Congress Committee after a reorganization of party secretariats.
• He also took on leadership roles in the Indian Youth Congress and the National Student’s Union of India. Under his direction, both experienced rapid expansion.
• He kept his Lok Sabha seat from the Amethi constituency in the 2009 General Elections.
• He was named the Indian National Congress’s Vice-President in January 2013. He has been a fervent advocate for the impoverished and economically disadvantaged segments of society throughout his political career.
• He was detained by the police on May 11, 2011, for providing assistance to farmers who were opposing the government’s seizure of their land for a planned expressway. The farmers are demanding substantial compensation.
• Rahul Gandhi kept his Lok Sabha seat from the Amethi constituency in the 2014 General Elections.
• In December 2017, due to his hard work and commitment, he earned the post of the President of the Indian National Congress.
• After losing the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, Rahul Gandhi formally resigned from his position as head of the Congress on July 3, 2019.

Rahul Gandhi as the Indian National Congress President:

On December 16, 2017, Rahul Gandhi was inducted into the Indian National Congress and given the position of President. Since then, he has established himself as a powerful voice of the opposition to the Narendra Modi-led National Democratic Alliance, which is led by the Bharatiya Janata Party. As the leader of the biggest opposition party, Rahul Gandhi has brought up a number of topics, the most of them are centered around improving the lot of the underprivileged in society. Through his harsh criticism of the many plans and programs of the Modi-led NDA administration, he has also played a significant role in keeping the ruling party on their toes. Rahul Gandhi has been vocally opposed to a number of NDA government policies, including the forced demonetization of 2016 that hampered the country’s economic growth, the requirement that all Indian citizens register for the Aadhar program, the Goods and Services Tax, the rise in inflation and fuel prices, the government’s divisive politics towards the Indian populace, the failure of the Swachh Bharat Scheme, and the Rafale scam, among many other policies. The Rahul Gandhi-led Congress has harshly criticized the Modi-led NDA government for being pro-rich and caving in to demands from businessmen, industrialists, and multinational corporations without considering or resolving the struggles of the nation’s poor and farmers.

RAHUL GANDHI NEWS:

Gujarat confidential: ‘Cross-border’ Hack

A BJP corporator from ward 16 in Vadodara named Snehal Patel has requested an investigation by the cybercrime police station into her Facebook profile hacking after pictures of Congressmen Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi surfaced on her page. Patel, though, asserts that “Pakistan” is the source of the account hack. She wrote, “My Facebook account has been hacked by Pakistan,” in a Facebook post. Please be cautious and refrain from clicking any links on my account. Furthermore, according to her, it was “done to cause me harm.

Rahul to visit Maharashtra by end of Dec as Cong gets serious about state:

According to party sources, a grand public meeting of the Congress is being planned on December 28 at Nagpur where party workers from across the state will be called and addressed by Gandhi.

By the end of December, senior Congress leader and Lok Sabha MP Rahul Gandhi will travel to Maharashtra in order to tackle the task of revitalizing the party organization in front of the general elections in 2024. Senior leaders will gather in Nagpur on Friday to finalize the plan, according to Congress General Secretary KC Venugopal. It is known that Venugopal ji would be arriving on Friday. Senior party leaders will gather under his direction. We will finalize the plan about Rahulji’s visit. He would probably arrive in Nagpur by the end of December, according to a top Maharashtra Congress official.

Party sources said that Gandhi will call on party workers from all over the state to attend a large public gathering of the Congress scheduled for December 28 in Nagpur. Gandhi had previously traveled to Maharashtra as part of his Bharat Jodo Yatra in 2022 and for the 2019 Lok Sabha election campaign. Party officials around the country had been pleading with the central leadership to concentrate more on Maharashtra, particularly on Vidarbha where the party’s chances of winning elections remain higher. With 48 Lok Sabha seats, Maharashtra is the state with the second-highest number after Uttar Pradesh. The party is placing its hopes in Maharashtra after losing the most recent assembly elections in Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, and Rajasthan.

Also, the Nationalist Congress Party, led by Sharad Pawar, and the Shiv Sena (UBT), led by Uddhav Thackeray, decided to support the Congress even though many INDIA front members withdrew from the recent conference held by Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge. It expects to perform better in the next general elections with the assistance of these two parties, Congress. Previously regarded as a Congress stronghold, Maharashtra awarded the party two and one Lok sabha seats in the general elections of 2014 and 2019, respectively. Venugopal will also meet with representatives of the Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) on Friday during his visitation. The AICC’s former chief of staff is no longer in control of the Congress’s state unit. HK Patil is now a minister in the government of Karnataka. For the last three months, Patil has not traveled to the state.

Rahul Gandhi responds to the Home Minister’s Nehru jab, saying, “Amit Shah doesn’t know history, he keeps rewriting it:

Home Minister Amit Shah’s remarks in the Rajya Sabha criticising Jawaharlal Nehru over the Kashmir problem drew a scathing response from Congressman Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday, accusing the BJP leader of “keeps rewriting” history and failing to understand it. Pandit Nehru gave this country his entire life.” Amit Shah ji does not understand history; he spent years behind bars. Gandhi remarked, “I don’t expect that he would know history as he keeps rewriting history.

Shah stated in the Rajya Sabha that even Nehru acknowledged his error on J&K. Using records from the Prime Minister’s Museum and Society in Teen Murti, he paraphrased Nehru as saying that, although he believed the ceasefire was a wise move at the time, it should have been made later and that there was no chance of a successful resolution at the UN. Shah had earlier said, during a speech to the Lok Sabha on December 6, that former Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru made “two blunders” that caused years of suffering for the people of Kashmir. In response, opposition members of the House left the chamber in protest. He also accused the former prime minister of handing over Pakistan-occupied Kashmir to their neighbor. If Jawaharlal Nehru had taken the proper actions, the PoK would presently be a part of India. It was a monumental error,” he declared.

Book Excerpt | Pranab Mukherjee’s Diary Note: ‘The issue is being caused by Rahul’s lack of political acumen and charm. Could he resurrect Congress?

In her book “Pranab, My Father – A Daughter Remembers,” the daughter of the late former president Pranab Mukherjee, Sharmistha Mukherjee, asserts that the former Congressman voiced doubts about the Gandhi scion’s suitability to lead the party in the wake of the 2014 scandal. The book reveals the decades of Mukherjee’s parliamentary career, from his close working days with Indira Gandhi to his term as President of India. It cites from Mukherjee’s journal notes as well as private discussions between him and Sharmistha.

The book is published by Rupa Publications India and is scheduled for release on December 11, the anniversary of Mukherjee’s birth.

It was obvious that the UPA government’s ten-year dominance was coming to an end even before the election results were declared. The Congress was in a depressing mood. Before the polls, Pranab was visited by a number of party and UPA leaders. All the forecasts were for the BJP/NDA to win, but no one had predicted that the Congress would be so thoroughly defeated. Ultimately, the BJP secured an absolute majority by gaining 282 seats, while the Congress had plummeted to an all-time low of 44 seats when the results were announced on May 16, 2014.

Why Congress lost Madhya Pradesh: Unlike Telangana, it didn’t listen to advisers or notice BJP’s winning strategy?

Kamal Nath appeared to be convinced that Madhya Pradesh’s janata ne apna mann bana liya hai in the run-up to the assembly elections. Elections are coming up in MP, and the BJP is in the lead. (Madhya Pradesh voters have already cast their ballots; the BJP and the people are competing in MP.) The reality on the ground was obviously different; the voter who appeared to be silent appears to have selected the Ram temple, the Modi factor, and welfarism. Nath overruled internal pollster Sunil Kanugolu, who advocated for significant modifications to the Congress platform, talking points, and campaign design.

AICC chief Mallikarjun Kharge, Rahul Gandhi and AICC general secretary in charge of the state, Randeep Surjewala, remained mute spectators even though in private, they often questioned Nath’s strategy.

Rahul’s Bharat Jodo Yatra

Reduction in returns, findings indicate minimal influence on voting habits

The impact of the Yatra, which ended in January, was seen only in rural Telangana – an area that largely voted for the Cong – but failed to have any impact on party’s performance in MP and Rajasthan

Recent reports of the Congress’s Bharat Jodo Yatra were credited with helping the party secure a landslide victory in Karnataka, with the party taking 15 of the 20 Assembly segments the state had seen. But the findings announced on Sunday show that the Yatra, which came to an end in January, is having less and less of an impact. In Telangana, Rajasthan, and Madhya Pradesh, on the other hand, different forces appeared to have been at work than the march itself. The two poll-bound states of Chhattisgarh and Mizoram were not visited by the march led by Rahul Gandhi.

Rahul Gandhi’s Bharat Jodo Yatra, which has covered more than 3,000 kilometers on foot, begins after winter break

• Following a nine-day pause, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi’s Bharat Jodo Yatra resumed in Delhi on Tuesday
• A crowd gathered beside the Marghat Hanuman Mandir in Delhi, which is close to the Kashmiri Gate. The Yatra resumed there on Tuesday at around ten in the morning.
• In the afternoon, the Yatra reached Loni in Uttar Pradesh. Three days later, the march will have traversed three districts in Western Uttar Pradesh. (Express image)
• Akhilesh Yadav, the leader of the Samajwadi Party, and Mayawati, the head of the BSP, thanked Rahul on Monday for the invitations, but as their parties had before stated, they will not be attending.

• Former INC spokesperson and Shiv Sena Rajya Sabha MP Priyanka Chaturvedi also joined the Yatra on Tuesday
• The JD(U) and RJD, the two Bihar-based allies of the Congress, will dispatch local units to take part in its UP leg.
• Rahul has traveled 3,122 km thus far, via 49 districts spread over nine states as well as Delhi.

Congress leaders protest against Rahul Gandhi’s disqualification in Parliament

On Friday, March24,2023, Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge marched toward Rashtrapati Bhawan in New Delhi while carrying a banner that read “Democracy in Danger” alongside members of other opposition parties who shared his views. The disqualification of Rahul Gandhi from the Lok Sabha following his conviction in a criminal defamation case was being protested by opposition parties. They also called for a JPC investigation into the Adani-Hindenburg matter. Gandhi was found guilty on Thursday by a Surat court in the defamation case pertaining to his comment about Modi’s surname made at a Karnataka public gathering in 2019. To give him time to file an appeal, his two-year prison term was suspended for 30 days. Congress’s chief spokesperson, Jairam Ramesh, announced that the party would begin a national campaign against Rahul Gandhi’s removal from the Lok Sabha during the nationwide rallies.

How the political “Pappu” Rahul Gandhi came to be

In the lead up to the 2014 Lok Sabha elections, Rahul Gandhi started to go by the nickname “Pappu.” The BJP’s leaders, workers, and ardent followers ensured that even a Google search for “Pappu” yielded Rahul Gandhi’s profile. According to conversations heard in the reporters’ hallway, the word “Gudiya” was first used by the former members of the Congress leadership, some of whom had even welcomed Sonia Gandhi.

But why Pappu?

At its plenary meeting in Talkatora Stadium in Delhi in November 2007, the Congress presented Rahul Gandhi as its face of the future. People who were hoping he would make a statement akin to what his father, Rajiv Gandhi, did in 1985, on the Congress’s centennial, 22 years prior, went home empty-handed. Rahul’s speech lacked politics and was abstract. Take this example: Rahul Gandhi questioned a group of roughly three thousand Congress workers, “What, after all, is poverty?” He then responded, “A poor person is one who is denied the opportunity to become rich.

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“Nobody can match Modi’s strength,” “Hard, even for Rahul,” Karti Chidambaram faces backlash for comments, and Cong takes notice

In a recent interview with Tamil news channel Thanthi TV, Karti Chidambaram seemed to critique the Congress leadership and praise Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s propaganda skills.

The son of seasoned Congressman P Chidambaram, MP Karti Chidambaram, has received a show-cause notice from the Tamil Nadu Congress Committee (TNCC) for his contentious comments implying that Prime Minister Narendra Modi‘s propaganda abilities surpass even those of Rahul Gandhi.

Many in the party contended that the TNCC was unable to issue Karti a notice because he is a member of the All India Congress Committee (AICC), despite the fact that the action brought attention to the delicate nature of criticizing the party leadership and the divisions inside.

Following Karti’s recent interview with Tamil news channel Thanthi TV, in which he unintentionally praised Modi’s qualities and made an implied criticism of the Congress leadership, the party’s disciplinary committee became enraged. Karti stated in the interview that “nobody is a match for Modi in today’s reality of propaganda.”

TNCC chief K S Alagiri was not available for remark, while senior TNCC leaders declined to comment. “It was undoubtedly not tasteful. In particular, party cadres cannot stand it when Rahul Gandhi’s abilities are underestimated. A top TNCC leader stated, “The notice is to uphold party discipline and a message that deviations from the party’s ideology and leadership will not be spared.”

When questioned about the PM candidate for the Congress in his 39-minute interview, Karti replied that discussions were ongoing. But before that, I really think that messaging matters. Soon, public announcements regarding our PM candidate are needed. Moving forward, instead of revealing our plans and promises just before the election, we should do so at least three to four months in advance. People are affected by that alone. By January, I hope the party will have a story to counter the bulldozer politics and Jai Sri Ram of the BJP. Has the quality of people’s lives improved during the past ten years? The lives of regular people have not, in my opinion, become any better. To refute their misinformation, we should emphasize inflation and the negative effects on the economy, Karti stated.

When asked if he thought Mallikarjun Kharge, the head of the AICC, would make a fine prime minister, Karti responded that Kharge was a seasoned politician with more than 53 years of experience. However, two people have proposed names for him. That opinion must be reached by others as well. He is clearly qualified for that position, in my opinion, Karti stated.

Congress renames Rahul yatra 2.0, finalises route: 15 states and 100 LS seats in over 2 months

The Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra will now also cover Arunachal, pass through Modi, Sonia seats, as well as Amethi, spending most time in UP; allies to be invited to be part of the march

All are welcome to participate in the Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra. Participants in the yatra are invited to include civil society organizations, parties affiliated with the Congress in various states, and the INDIA alliance parties. Congress communications leader Jairam Ramesh also announced that the theme song and logo would be made available in the next few days.

Ramesh clarified, “The idea of justice is the idea of the yatra,” as to why the name of the yatra was changed. The 140-day Bharat Jodo Yatra was a revolutionary political movement in India, and everyone agreed that we should merge the two. As a result, the yatra is now known as the Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra.

“Everyone said we should strengthen the alliance, and there should be no shortcomings on the part of the Congress in strengthening the alliance,” he continued.

With eleven days, the party will spend the maximum time in Uttar Pradesh. It will pass through several well-known Lok Sabha seats, including Varanasi, home of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Rae Bareli, seat of Congress Parliamentary Party president Sonia Gandhi, and Amethi, former home of Rahul, which is currently held by Union Minister Smriti Irani. The celebration will travel 1,074 km over 20 UP districts in total. There won’t be as many container vans for the yatris to spend the night in as there were during the Bharat Jodo Yatra, nor will there be a permanent contingent of Congress leaders and employees marching with Rahul. Every day, the yatris will trek 8–9 km, and a bus will go 80 km. Rahul has two speeches a day scheduled as well.

The yatra route

• Manipur (1 day): The yatra will travel 107 km in four districts, passing through two Lok Sabha and 11 Assembly seats.
• Nagaland (2 days): The yatra will cover 257 km, passing through five districts.
• Assam (8 days): It will travel 833 km in 17 districts.
• Arunachal Pradesh (1 day): 55 km will be covered in one district.
• Meghalaya (1 day): The route has been shortened here and the march will cover 5 km in a district.
• West Bengal (5 days): The party will travel 523 km in seven districts.
• Jharkhand (8 days): The yatra will travel 804 km and cover 13 districts.
• Odisha (4 days): The yatra will cover 341 km in four districts.
• Chhattisgarh (5 days): The party will cover 536 km in seven districts.
• Bihar (4 days): The yatra will pass through seven districts and cover 425 km.
• Uttar Pradesh (11 days): The party will cover 1,074 km in 20 districts.
• Madhya Pradesh (7 days): The yatra will pass through nine districts, covering 698 km.
• Rajasthan (1 day): The yatra will cover 128 km in two districts.
• Gujarat (5 days): The yatra will travel 445 km in seven districts.
• Maharashtra (5 days): The yatra will conclude in Mumbai on March 20 after travelling 480 km across six districts.