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EARLY LIFE

• Rahul Gandhi was born in Delhi on 19 June 1970, as the first of the two children of Rajiv Gandhi Sonia Gandhi and as the grandson of the then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi also the great-grandson of India’s first Prime Minister, Jawaharlal Nehru.
• Priyanka Vadra is his younger sister and Robert Vadra is his brother-in-law.
• Rahul Gandhi attended St. Columba’s School, Delhi before entering The Doon School in Dehradun, Uttarakhand from 1981 to 1983.

EARLY LIFE

• Meanwhile, his father had joined politics and became the Prime Minister on 31 October 1984 when Indira Gandhi was assassinated.
• Rahul Gandhi joined St. Stephen’s College, Delhi in 1989 for his undergraduate education but moved to Harvard University after he completed the first year examinations.
• He shifted to Rollins College in Florida, USA, due to security concerns and obtained his B.A. in 1994. During his time at Rollins. He further went on to obtain an M.Phil. from Trinity College, Cambridge in 1995.

POLITICS

• After graduation, Rahul Gandhi worked at the Monitor Group, a management consulting firm, in London. In 2002, he was one of the directors of Mumbai-based technology outsourcing firm Backops Services Private Ltd.
• In March 2004, Rahul Gandhi announced his entry into politics by announcing that he would contest the May 2004 elections, standing for his father’s former constituency of Amethi in Uttar Pradesh.
• In his first interview with foreign media, Rahul Gandhi portrayed himself as a uniter of the country and condemned “divisive” politics in India.

POLITICS

• Rahul Gandhi won, retaining the family stronghold with a victory margin of over 100,000.Until 2006 he held no other office.
• Rahul Gandhi was appointed General Secretary of the All India Congress Committee on 24 September 2007 in a reshuffle of the party secretariat.
• In the same reshuffle, he was also given charge of the Indian Youth Congress and the National Students Union of India.He was elevated to the position of the vicepresident of the party in January 2013.

POLITICS

• Under Rahul Gandhi, the IYC and NSUI have seen a dramatic increase in members from 200,000 to 2.5 million.
• In the 2009 Lok Sabha elections, Gandhi retained his Amethi seat.He spoke at 125 rallies across the country in six weeks.
• Rahul Gandhi campaigned during the 2012 Assembly elections in the politically crucial Uttar Pradesh election for almost two months, holding 200 rallies. However Congress ranked as the fourth party in the state.

POLITICS

• Gandhi contested the 2014 Indian general election from his constituency, Amethi.and led the election campaign of the Indian National Congress.
• Gandhi held the Amethi seat by defeating his nearest rival, BJP’s Smriti Irani. Under his leadership, the Indian National Congress suffered its worst ever performance in elections and won only 44 seats compared to 206 seats won previously in the 2009 general election.
• The Congress-led electoral alliance, the UPA also had its worst ever performance in elections and won only 59 seats compared to 262 seats won previously in the 2009 general election.After the defeat, Gandhi offered to resign his posts, only to be rejected by the party’s working committee.

POLITICS

• Gandhi addressed the farmer and worker’s rally, named as Kisan Khet Mazdoor Rally in Ramlila Maidan on 19 April 2015.
• He mocked the government as “suit-boot government”, a reference to Modi’s monogrammed suit which he wore in the Republic Day meeting with Barack Obama. Moreover, he used the “acche din government” jibe (which was Modi’s election campaign slogan meaning “good days government”) and mentioned that it had “failed the country”.

POLITICS

• Gandhi coined the slogan “Chowkidar Chor Hai” as a jibe against Narendra Modi, BJP’s Prime Ministerial candidate for the 2019 Indian general election.
• The slogan was aimed at Modi in relation to the alleged irregularities and favouritism in awarding the contracts for the Rafale fighter jet deal.
• The government has denied any wrongdoing in the Rafale deal and the case is being heard by the Supreme Court of India.

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• Rahul Gandhi contested the 2019 Lok sabha election from two constituencies, Amethi, UP and Wayanad, Kerala.
• Under his leadership the party improved its seat count from 44 out 543 in 2014 to 52 out of 542 in 2019. It also boosted its vote from 19.3% to 19.5% in 2019.
• Rahul Gandhi won the Wayanad seat in the 2019 general elections. However, he lost his existing seat of Amethi to BJP’s Smriti Irani by a margin of 55,120 votes.

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