121812017 Rahul Gandhi - Wikipedia WIKIPEDIA Rahul Gandhi Rahul Gandhi @ pronunciation [‘ra:fil ‘ga:ng‘i:]; (born 19 June 1970) is an Indian politician who is currently serving as Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha MP . Rahul Gandhi from Amethi, Uttar Pradesh, He also currently serves as Member of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on External Affairs. He serves as the Vice-President of the Indian National Congress party, the Chairperson of the Indian Youth Congress and the National Students Union of India, He is the second-highest-ranked member of the Congress Working Committee, He also serves as ‘Trustee of Rajiv Gandhi Foundation and Rajiv Gandhi Charitable Trust. Gandhi formerly served as a general secretary in the All India Congress Committee. Gandhi comes from the Nehru-Gandhi family, Due to security concerns, Gandhi constantly had to shift schools in his youth. He studied abroad under a pseudonym, his identity being known only to a select few including university officials and security agencies, After obtaining degrees in international relations and development studies at the universities of Rollins and Cambridge, Gandhi worked at the Monitor Group, a management consulting firm in London, before establishing the Mumbai-based technology outsourcing firm, Backops Services Private Ltd. In 2004, Gandhi re-entered public life when he ran for and won his father’s old Lok Sabha (lower house of Indian Parliament) seat of Amethi, Uttar Pradesh. A few years later, in 2007, Gandhi was elected as the General Secretary of the Congress party, an executive post also held in the past by his father, Rajiv Gandhi and by his great-grandfather, Jawaharlal Nehru. Amidst calls from Congress party veterans for his greater involvement in party politics and national government, Gandhi was elected Congress Vice-President in 2013. Gandhi led the INC campaign in the party suffered its worst electoral result in its history, winning only 44 seats 114 Indian general election in which the compared to 206 seats won previously in the 2009 general election, Contents Early life and career 2 Formative Years 21 Youth polities 22 2009 elections 3 2012 Assembly elections Indian general election, 2014 5 Post General Elections hitpsen wikipeda.orgwikvRahul_Ganah Vice-President Indian National Congress Incumbent Assumed office 19 January 2013, President Sonia Gandhi Preceded by Office established Chairperson Indian Youth Congress Incumbent Assumed office 25 September 2007 Preceded by Office established Chairperson National Students’ Union of india Incumbent Assumed office 25 September 2007 Preceded by Office established General Secretary Indian National Congress In office 25 September 2007 — 19 January 2013 am121812017 Rahul Gandhi - Wikipedia 5.1 Farmers’ and Land Agitation President Sonia Gandhi 6 Political and social views Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha 6.1 National security for Amethi 6.2 Lokpal 63 Poverty Incumbent 64 Ordinance on Convicted Lawmakers Assumed office 65 Other 17 May 2004 7 References Preceded by Sonia Gandhi Further reading 9 External links Personal details Born 49 June 1970 New Delhi, India Early life and career Nationality Indian TC Political Indian National Gandhi was born in Delhi on 19 June 1970,""!as the first of the two children of | party Congress Rajiv Gandhi, who later became the Prime Minister of India, and Italian-bor i" ° . vm | Relations Nehru-Gandhi family Parents Rajiv Gandhi Sonia Gandhi Sonia Gandhi, who later became President of Indian National Congress, and as the grandson of the then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi. He is 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. He identifies Alma mater University of Delhi himself as a Hindu Brahmin. Harvard University Rollins College Gandhi attended St. Columba's School, Delhif'! before entering The Doon Trinity College, School in Dehradun, Uttarakhand from 1981 to 1983. Meanwhile, his father Cambridge had joined politics and became the Prime Minister on 31 October 1984 when Indira Gandhi was assassinated. Due to the security threats faced by Indira | Signature fA: Soe Gandhi's family from Sikh extremists, Rahul Gandhi and his sister, Priyanka were home-schooled thereafter 51 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. In 1991, after Rajiv Gandhi was assassinated by the Tamil Tigers (LTTE)"! 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 his identity was known only to the university officials and security agencies 191 He further went on to obtain an M.Phil from Trinity College, Cambridge in 1995.""l After graduation, Raul 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\"21 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, "92" jn 2013 he suggested that he may not get marvied."5) Formative Years In March 2004, Gandhi announced his entry into polities 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."®1 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.!"71 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. 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 hitpsen wikipeda.orgwikvRahul_Ganah itttaiec017 Ratul Gand - Wikipedia his first interview with foreign media, Gandhi 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/"®1 Gandhi won, retaining the family stronghold with a victory margin of over 100,000." Until 2006 he held no other office, Gandhi and his sister, Priyanka managed their mother’s campaign for re-clection to Rae Bareilly in 2006, which was won with a victory margin of over 400,000 votes.2"! He was a prominent figure in the Congress campaign for the 2007 Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections; Congress, however, won only 22 seats of the 403 seats with 8.53% of votes.221 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.4l In 2008, senior Congress leader Veerappa Moily mentioned "Rahul-as-PM" idea when the PM of India Manmohan Singh was still abroad.5I He was elevated to the position of the vice-president of the party in January 2013.28 Youth politics In September 2007 when he was appointed general secretary in charge of the Indian Youth Congress (IYC) and the National Students Union of India (NSUI), Gandhi promised to reform youth politics! In his attempt to prove himself thus, in November 2008 Gandhi 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 (TYC), an organisation that he has been keen to transform since he was appointed general seeretary in September 2007.8) Under Gandhi, the IYC and NSUI have seen a dramatic increase in members from 200,000 to 2.5 million.) The Indian Express wrote in 2011, "Three years later, as another organisational reshuffle is in the offing, Gandhi's dream remains unrealised with party veterans manipulating internal elections in the Youth Congress and a host of people with questionable background gaining entry into it."991 2009 elections In the 2009 Lok Sabha elections, Gandhi retained his Amethi seat by defeating his nearest rival by a margin of over 370,000 votes. Gandhi was credited with the Congress revival in Uttar Pradesh where they won 21 out of the total 80 Lok Sabha seats.!tIS41 te spoke at 125 rallies across the country in six weeks.) The nationwide elections defied the predictions made by pre-poll predictions and exit polls and gave a clear mandate to the incumbent Congress-led UPA government 4 In May 2011, Gandhi was arrested by the Uttar Pradesh Police at Bresigent Barack Obama and First Lady Bhatta Parsaul village after he turned out in support of agitating \Yicholie Obama with Prime Minister farmers demanding more compensation for their land being acquired Manmohan Singh, C Gandhi and Sonia Gandhi isharan Kaur, Pranab for a highway project. Gandhi was taken away from the protest site Mukherjee. Rah and later given bail and dropped off at the Delhi-UP border.'*51 2012 Assembly elections hitpsen wikipeda.orgwikvRahul_Ganah itt