TopicRahul Gandhi

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.

The accused

Shekhar Gupta - October 26, 2013

The charge against Manmohan Singh, always, was that he was weak. Unwilling to shoo away encroachers on his authority and shy of defending his own policies.

His moral Highness

Shekhar Gupta - September 28, 2013

The PM’s oath of office has an implicit responsibility to protect the preeminent decision-making authority of that office. So it is difficult to watch how Manmohan Singh is going down in history as somebody who so damaged it.

Not enough, boss

Shekhar Gupta - April 6, 2013

Since we do not have an insight into Rahul Gandhi’s mind yet, here is our list of what could possibly be called the three mistakes of his political life.

Atal Modi vs Rajiv Rahul

Shekhar Gupta - March 9, 2013

Only two leaders have the strength, appeal & political wherewithal to break the two-decade stalemate in Indian politics with a big new idea: Rahul Gandhi and Narendra Modi.

First family, second nature

Shekhar Gupta - October 13, 2012

What is it about the Congress that the moment a member of the Gandhi family is attacked, it loses its political judgment, instinct, discretion? It ceases to respond like a political party.

Anybody out there?

Shekhar Gupta - May 19, 2012

Government's inaction down the line is only matched by the silence at its top.

Smirks that speak and a doctor with no prescription

Shekhar Gupta - February 29, 2012

Congress has a Very Angry Young Man, BJP has too many angry old men.

The great letdown

Shekhar Gupta - April 30, 2011

UPA-2 has been an incredibly apolitical government, which is its own and India's tragedy.

Go, or get going

SGIN - September 11, 2010

The risk Congress does not want to be taking going into 2014 is going into an election with the 'longest-lasting lame duck' in India's history.

The party is brain dead

Shekhar Gupta - February 26, 2000

The Congress is so intellectually overwhelmed by the Dynasty that it is incapable of even thinking, strategising, and functioning as the opposition.

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