Rahul Gandhi
Rahul Gandhi ( Hindi राहुल गांधी ; born June 19, 1970 in New Delhi ) is an Indian politician and former president of the Congress Party .
Life
Rahul Gandhi is the son of Sonia and Rajiv Gandhi , a grandson of Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi and a great-grandson of India's first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru . His sister is Priyanka Gandhi Vadra . In 1991 he lost his father Rajiv Gandhi, who was also Prime Minister of India, in an assassination attempt.
After he started studying at Harvard University , he moved to the smaller Rollins College in Florida because of security concerns after the attack on his father . Finally, he graduated in International Relations and Development Studies at Trinity College of the University of Cambridge . He studied under the pseudonym Raul Vinci . He then worked as a financial advisor in the London Monitor Group until he returned to India in 2002 and founded the technology company Backops Services Private Ltd. in Mumbai . founded. It was only in August 2004 that he switched to politics.
In the 2004 parliamentary elections, he won the constituency of Amethi , located in the state of Uttar Pradesh , and thus moved into the Lok Sabha , the lower house of the Indian parliament. He defended his seat in the next elections in 2009 and 2014. His mother and father had previously stood as candidates in the same constituency. In 2007 he stood as the top candidate of the Indian Congress Party in the regional elections in Uttar Pradesh, where he was able to win 8.53 percent of the votes for his party.
He was then appointed General Secretary of the Congress Party by his mother. In this role, he made a decisive contribution to the party's victory in the 2009 national parliamentary elections . In the state elections in Uttar Pradesh 2012, he ran again as the top candidate. His party was only able to win 23 of 403 seats in the state parliament and became the fourth strongest force.
In the run-up to the all-India parliamentary elections in 2014 , Rahul Gandhi led the Congress party's election campaign. While the Congress Party officially did not nominate a candidate for the post of prime minister, Gandhi explicitly did not rule out a candidacy. The Congress party suffered the biggest defeat in its history in the election and was reduced to 44 of 543 parliamentary seats.
On December 16, 2017, Rahul Gandhi was elected President of the Congress Party. He thus succeeded his mother Sonia Gandhi. After the Congress party's defeat in the 2019 general election, he announced his resignation on July 3, 2019, which was accepted by the party's governing bodies on August 10, 2019.
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- ↑ Rahul Gandhi leads the Indian Congress Party. Deutsche Welle, December 16, 2017, accessed on December 16, 2017 .
- ↑ CWC meeting: Rahul's resignation accepted, Sonia Gandhi becomes Congress interim president. August 10, 2019, accessed November 12, 2019 .
- ^ Kai Schultz, Hari Kumar: Rahul Gandhi Resigns as Leader of India's Congress Party. The New York Times, August 3, 2019, accessed November 12, 2019 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Gandhi, Rahul |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Indian politician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 19, 1970 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | New Delhi |