Rahul Gandhi (born 19 June 1970) is an Indian politician and member of the Parliament of India, representing the Amethi constituency. His political party is the Indian National Congress. He belongs to the Nehru-Gandhi family, the most prominent political family in India. In 2009 He turned down a cabinet post in the Manmohan Singh government.
Early lifeRahul Gandhi was born in New Delhi, the first amongst 2 children of Rajiv Gandhi, former Prime Minister of India and Sonia Gandhi, Zodiac Sign -Gemini, the current Congress President. He is the elder brother of Priyanka Gandhi. His grandmother was Prime Minister Indira Gandhi.
Family Father - Rajiv Gandhi (former Prime Minister)
Mother - Sonia Gandhi (President of the Indian National Congress)
Sister - Priyanka Gandhi Vadra
Brother-in-law - Robert Vadra
Niece-Miraya
Nephew-Raihan
Girlfriend-Veronique [not confirmed]
EducationHe attended Modern School, New Delhi before entering the The Doon School, also his father's alma mater, from 1981-83 before being home-schooled for security reasons. Starting university at Harvard, he got his B.A. from Rollins College, Florida in 1994 due to interruptions in his studies caused by security concerns after his father's assassination. He received an M.Phil. in Development Studies in 1995 from Trinity College, Cambridge.
Rahul Gandhi belongs to the political family .Rahul Gandhi is the Son of Rajiv Gandhi and current congress president Sonia Gandhi. His grandmother Indira Gandhi was also the Prime Minister of India. So it’s very natural that Rahul will also become the Prime Minister of India when he wishes. But as a matured politician and guidance from his mother Sonia Gandhi and Sister Priyanka Gandhi he is playing the game of Politics very carefully. The time has come and through this blog I want to say the next Prime Minister of India will be Rahul Gandhi in the year 2014 or before that if the health of Current Prime Minister does not keep well .I hope and wish that MMS will rule the India for next five years. Currently Rahul is playing the game of politics like his grand mother Indira.
He won a seat in the 2004 parliamentary election from Amethi in Uttar Pradesh by a margin of 300,500 votes. In the 2009 Lok Sabha elections, he retained his Amethi constituency by defeating his nearest rival by a margin of over 333,000 votes.
Rahul Gandhi is unmarried, with status and wealth so there are speculations about his friendships with girls. So there is one instances in 2004, he was reported to have been dating Veronica, an architect from Spain. The two met while at university.
Few websites have reportd that this incident is about seven year old Columbian girlfriend Juneita About both the above stories I am not sure
and I can not confirm it.
I have just mentioned it because I found it on the websites while making the research on the Rahul Gandhi. I have posted the one pic of Rahul Gandhi with juneita. I don’t know its fake or real but I have taken it from the website kerala monitor which has reported that he has affair with juneita.This incident has been mentioned in the outlook India 12th sep.2005.
Vernonica and juneita are the two names of the same girl.
Vernonica aka juneita.
CareerCorporate careerRahul Gandhi, after graduating worked with management guru, Michael Porter's Management consulting firm, Monitor Group. for three years. His colleagues at the firm had no idea who they were working with— as he was using an assumed name. He returned to India in late 2002 to run an engineering and technology outsourcing firm in Mumbai.
Political careerIn 2003, there was widespread media speculation about Rahul Gandhi's imminent entry into national politics, which he did not confirm. He appeared with his mother at public events and Congress meetings. He also traveled to Pakistan on a goodwill visit to watch the first cricket series between the countries in 14 years in a One Day International with his sister Priyanka Gandhi.
Speculation heightened in January 2004 about his and his sister's possible entry into politics when they visited their father's former constituency of Amethi, which their mother held at the time. He refused to give a definitive response, stating "I am not averse to politics. I have not decided when I will enter politics and indeed, if I ever will."
In March 2004, he 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 the Lok Sabha, India's lower house of Parliament. Before that, his uncle Sanjay held the seat before a plane crash. The seat had been held by his mother until she transferred to the neighbouring seat of Rae Bareilly. The Congress had been doing poorly in Uttar Pradesh, holding only 10 of the 80 Lok Sabha seats in the state at the time. At the time, this move generated surprise among political commentators, who had regarded his sister Priyanka as being the more charismatic and likely to succeed. Party officials did not have a curriculum vitae ready
for the media, such was the surprise of his move. It generated speculation that the presence of a young member of India's most famous political family would reinvigorate the Congress party's political fortunes among India's youthful population In his first interview with foreign media, he portrayed himself as a uniter of the country and condemned "divisive" politics in India, saying that he would try to reduce caste and religious tensions. His candidacy was greeted with excitement by locals, who had a long standing affinity with the family's presence in the area. Politician of Indian National Congress He won with a landslide majority, retaining the family stronghold with a margin of over 100,000 as the Congress unexpectedly defeated the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party. His campaign was directed by his younger sister, Priyanka Gandhi Vadhera.[citation needed] Till 2006 he held no other office and concentrated mainly on
constituency issues and the politics of Uttar Pradesh, and it was widely speculated in the Indian and international press that Sonia Gandhi is trying to groom him for a chance to become a national-level Congress leader in the future.
In January 2006, at a convention of the Indian National Congress in Hyderabad, thousands of party members asked for Gandhi to take a more prominent leadership role in the party and demanded that he address the delegates. He said "I appreciate and I am grateful for your feelings and support. I assure you I will not let you down", but asked for patience and declined to immediately seek a higher profile role.
Gandhi and his sister (married to Robert Vadhera) managed their mother's campaign for reelection to Rae Bareilly in 2006, which was won easily with a margin greater than 400,000 votes.
He was a prominent figure in a high profile Congress campaign for the 2007 Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections; Congress, however, won only 22 seats with 8.53% of votes. The election saw the Bahujan Samaj Party, which represents low caste Indians, to become the first party to govern in its own right in Uttar Pradesh for 16 years.
Rahul Gandhi was appointed a 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 Youth Congress and the National Students Union of India.
In his attempt to prove himself as a youth leader in November 2008 he held interviews at his 12, Tughlak Lane residence in New Delhi to handpick at least 40 people who will make up the think-tank of the Indian Youth Congress (IYC), an organisation that he has been keen to transform since he was appointed general secretary in September 2007.
Rahul Gandhi participated in an interactive session with students of Jawaharlal Nehru University, India. The Universtity student unions have been traditionally dominated by the Left. His party, INC, however, was quick to play up Rahul's visit to JNU as an “excellent example of youth participation in politics”. Rahul's grandmother, Indira Gandhi had to face huge opposition from Left student unions during her visit to the university campus in 1982 because of her decision to impose emergency. Rahul was quizzed by the students on issues ranging from
hiearchial politics in India, to his visits to Dalit Houses, economic growth in the country and education reforms. Some papers, however, reported Rahul's visit to JNU as a political attempt to strengthen the newly constituted unit of NSUI at JNU.
2009 Elections
In the 2009 Lok Sabha elections, he retained his Amethi constutuency by defeating his nearest rival by a margin of over 333,000 votes. In these elections congress is said to have revived itself in Uttar Pradesh by winning 21 out of the total 80 Lok Sabha seats and the majority of the credit for this turnaround is given to Rahul Gandhi. He spoke at 125 rallies across the country in six weeks.
Congress General Secretary and Lok Sabha MP Rahul Gandhi arrived in
Mumbai on 5th, Friday,2010 to stray incidents of protests from Shiv Sena workers.
