Rahul Gandhi Age

Gandhi was born in Delhi on 19 June 1970. He is 48 years old. Rahul is first of the two children of Rajiv Gandhi, who later became the Prime Minister of India, and Italian-born Sonia Gandhi. He identifies himself as a Hindu Brahmin.

Rahul Gandhi Education

Gandhi attended St. Columba’s School, Delhi before entering The Doon School in Dehradun, Uttarakhand from 1981 to 1983.

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.

In 1991, Tamil Tigers (LTTE) assassinated Rajiv Gandhi during an election rally. 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 assumed the pseudonym Raul Vinci and only university officials knows his true identity. He further went on to obtain an M.Phil from Trinity College, Cambridge in 1995.

Rahul Gandhi Wife

While in 2004, Gandhi had told the press that he had a Spanish girlfriend, an architect, living in Venezuela, whom he had met while studying in England. In 2013, he suggested that he may not get married.

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Rahul Gandhi Biography

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.

Rahul Gandhi Constituency

In March 2004, 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 the Lok Sabha, India’s lower house of Parliament.

His mother had held the seat 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.

Rahul Gandhi Congress

Congress Leadership appointed Gandhi as 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.

In 2008, senior Congress leader Veerappa Moily mentioned “Rahul-as-PM” idea when the PM of India Manmohan Singh was still abroad. He was elevated to the position of the vice-president of the party in January 2013

Rahul Gandhi History

Congress party veterans demanded his greater involvement in party politics and national government.  Party worker elected Gandhi as Congress Vice-President in 2013, having served as the General Secretary previously.

Gandhi led Congress’ campaign in the 2014 Indian general elections; the party suffered its worst electoral result in its history, winning only 44 seats compared to 206 seats won previously in the 2009 general election.

As of May 2018, Gandhi trails behind incumbent Prime Minister of India Narendra Modi as the popular choice for Prime Minister in the 2019 general elections.

Gandhi took over as the president of the Congress in December 2017. He is also a trustee of Rajiv Gandhi Foundation and Rajiv Gandhi Charitable Trust.

Rahul Gandhi Lok Sabha

Gandhi successfully contested the general elections held that year from Amethi, a seat that was earlier held by his father; he won again from the constituency in 2009 and 2014.