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.
And why would Akhilesh in UP will give lion share of MP’s to Congress in Lok Sabha elections ??
We don’t need Congress. In fact, we should have less intrusive govt in our lives, where govt just does bare minimum of defence, police, and enabling regulations through bureacracy.
Congress is a typical big govt party, which looks at the country as a collection of castes, linguistic groups and religious groups, and tries to act as saviour from each other.
First, they should accept India as a continuius civilization and not a British creation, and focus on treating everyone equally, and creating a system of equality of opportunity than peddling equality of outcomes in a broken system, they don’t want to fix.
Individual politicians in BJP maybe corrupt, but their overall ideology is right. In Congress, the ideology is haphazardly idealistic, which enables more corruption, that can’t be papered over by occasionally showcasing an honest man like MMS, time to time.