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Rahul Gandhi is an Indian politician who was the President of the Indian National Congress from 2017 to 2019. He led the Congress campaign in the 2014 general election where the party suffered its worst result winning only 44 seats. In 2017, he became the Congress party leader after succeeding his mother, Sonia Gandhi. However, in the 2019 general election the party won only 52 seats and he resigned as party leader.

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Rahul Gandhi 2

Rahul Gandhi is an Indian politician who was the President of the Indian National Congress from 2017 to 2019. He led the Congress campaign in the 2014 general election where the party suffered its worst result winning only 44 seats. In 2017, he became the Congress party leader after succeeding his mother, Sonia Gandhi. However, in the 2019 general election the party won only 52 seats and he resigned as party leader.

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previously.

He led the Congress' campaign in the 2014 Indian In office


general elections; the party suffered its worst electoral result in 16 December 2017 – 10 August
its history, winning only 44 seats compared to 206 seats won 2019
previously in the 2009 general election. In 2017, he succeeded
his mother as Congress party leader and led the party into the Preceded by Sonia Gandhi
2019 Indian general election. The party won 52 seats, failing to Succeeded by Sonia Gandhi
get 10% of the seats needed to claim the post of leader of the Vice-President of the Indian
opposition. After this poor performance in the election, he National Congress
resigned as party leader and was succeeded by his mother, Sonia In office
Gandhi, on an interim basis.
19 January 2013 – 16 December
2017
Early life and background President Sonia Gandhi
Preceded by Position established
Gandhi was born in Delhi on
19 June 1970,[16] as the first Succeeded by Position abolished
of the two children of Rajiv General Secretary of Indian
Gandhi, who later became the National Congress
prime minister of India, and In office
Italian-born Sonia Gandhi 25 September 2007 – 19 January
(née Maino), who later
2013
Gandhi along with Sonia became the president of
Gandhi,then POI Pratibha Patil, Indian National Congress, President Sonia Gandhi
then VPOI Ansari, then PM at the and as the grandson of Prime Chair of Indian Youth Congress
memorial of his grandmother Indira Minister Indira Gandhi. His Incumbent
Gandhi paternal grandfather Feroze
Gandhi was a Parsi from Assumed office
Gujarat.[17] He is also the 25 September 2007
great-grandson of India's first prime minister, Jawaharlal Nehru. Preceded by Position established
Priyanka Vadra is his younger sister and Robert Vadra is his Chair of National Students' Union
brother-in-law.[18] of India
Incumbent
Gandhi attended St. Columba's School, Delhi[19] before entering
the all-boys' boarding The Doon School in Dehradun (also the Assumed office
alma mater of his father, Rajiv Gandhi) from 1981 to 1983. At 25 September 2007
Doon, Gandhi's contemporary was the former Congress, now- Preceded by Position established
BJP politician Jyotiraditya Scindia.[20] Meanwhile, his father Personal details
joined politics and became the prime minister on 31 October
1984 when Indira Gandhi was assassinated. Due to the security Born Rahul Rajiv Gandhi
threats faced by Indira Gandhi's family from Sikh extremists, 19 June 1970
Gandhi, and his sister, Priyanka was home-schooled New Delhi, India
thereafter.[21] Political party Indian National
Congress
Gandhi joined St. Stephen's College, Delhi (an affiliated college
of the University of Delhi), in 1989 for his undergraduate Parent(s) Rajiv Gandhi
education but moved to Harvard University after he completed (father)
the first year examinations.[22] In 1991, after Rajiv Gandhi was Sonia Gandhi
assassinated by the Tamil Tigers (LTTE)[23] during an election (mother)
rally, he shifted to Rollins College in Florida, USA, supposedly
Relatives Priyanka Gandhi
due to security concerns and obtained his B.A. in 1994.[24] (sister)
During his time at Rollins, he assumed the pseudonym Raul

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