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Topic: Rahul Gandhi

Rahul Gandhi is a fifth-generation politician from the Nehru-Gandhi family and a senior Congress leader. He currently serves as the Leader of the Opposition in the Lok Sabha.

Entering politics in 2004, he contested from the family stronghold of Amethi in Uttar Pradesh, winning three consecutive terms before losing to the BJP’s Smriti Irani in 2019. However, he remained an MP by securing a win from Wayanad, a seat he held until 2024. He briefly served as Congress president from 2017 but resigned after the party’s poor performance in the 2019 General Elections.

Between 2022 and 2024, Rahul Gandhi led two major political marches—the 3,750-km Bharat Jodo Yatra (Kanniyakumari to Srinagar) and the 6,700-km Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra (Thoubal to Mumbai). In the 2024 elections, he made a strong comeback, reclaiming Amethi and assuming the role of Leader of the Opposition.

I’ve gained weight because of Gujarati food, says Rahul Gandhi at Kutch rally

Manasi Phadke -
Rahul Gandhi lambasts BJP’s ‘Gujarat model’ of development in his last leg of campaigning for state assembly polls, saying it did not benefit locals.

Want to be a successful Indian politician? Leave your secularism at the door

Rohit Chopra -
The principle of the performance of secular identity has now been replaced by the performance of Hinduness as the necessary condition for political leadership.

There were no drums and firecrackers to celebrate Rahul Gandhi’s nomination

Kumar Anshuman -
No celebrations allowed at Congress HQ; Rahul met Pranab Mukherjee, Manmohan Singh before submitting his nomination papers.

BJP needs Rahul Gandhi as Congress president as much as his own party

Pranab Dhal Samanta -
Rahul Gandhi is one ‘Pappu-Shehzada-Aurangzeb’ story that the BJP actually sees benefit in keeping alive.

Shehzad Poonawalla: The TV talking head challenging Rahul Gandhi’s elevation in Congress

Kumar Anshuman -
Shehzad and Tehseen’s access to the top leadership of the Congress is a matter of envy for many party functionaries.

‘Rahul will be the last Gandhi to be Congress president’

Kalyani Shankar -
Former foreign minister Natwar Singh says there’s a distinct change in Rahul Gandhi since his ‘Pappu’ days, but taking over the Congress will be a huge challenge.

Congress knows BJP’S weaknesses in Gujarat, but isn’t able to exploit them

Ruhi Tewari -
While Rahul Gandhi has punctured holes in the BJP’s development narrative, the Congress doesn’t seem to have a fresh, promising narrative to sell.

Rahul Gandhi is making his father’s Shah Bano-Ayodhya mistakes and fighting the war on BJP’s terms

Shekhar Gupta -
Rahul Gandhi is playing to the BJP’s Hindutva strengths. It’s a blunder his dad committed too, and the party’s never recovered.

Rahul Gandhi is truly a cosmo-religious man

Kumar Ketkar -
Raising religion as an issue in the emerging campaign shows that the BJP is losing its development plank and is re-polarising the electorate.

Rahul Gandhi should know that wearing religion on his sleeve comes at a cost

Ashutosh -
Rahul Gandhi has realised that the negation of religion as a political strategy had proved to be a disaster in Gujarat and he has also realised that wearing religion on his sleeves will help.
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