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.

Narendra Modi – candidate to PM

Shekhar Gupta - November 21, 2015

Why the prime minister's legacy will depend on how he governs, not the number of state elections he fights as personality contests.

Rahul’s yankee rap

Shekhar Gupta - April 30, 2015

Congress vice president's anti-America attack on Modi flies in the face of his family's and world history. It'll find few takers outside of JNU.

Makeover at 44

Shekhar Gupta - April 23, 2015

Whatever Rahul Gandhi was doing during his sabbatical, he has rid himself of fatal flaws for a mass politician: shying from eye contact and building an image of flightiness.

Why didn’t you want to resign, Dr Singh?

Shekhar Gupta - March 12, 2015

Let's ask why our former PM let Congress undermine his authority and that of his office.

Help us imagine, Rahulji

Shekhar Gupta - December 14, 2013

Shekhar Gupta argues that for a rapidly declining and self-destructive Congress to rejuvenate, change should first come from the top, i,.e., the Gandhi family.

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.

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