Rahul Gandhi

Rahul Gandhi

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Rahul Gandhi Profile

  • Name:
  • Rahul Gandhi
  • Born:
  • June 19, 1970
  • Born / Home Town:
  • Delhi

Rahul Gandhi Biography

Rahul Gandhi is an Indian politician and is serving as the member of the Indian Parliament. He belongs to the Indian National Congress and was elected from the Amethi constituency. He was born on 19th June 1970 in Delhi.

 

He is the son of Rajiv Gandhi, the former Prime Minister of India and Sonia Gandhi, President of Indian National Congress. He is the grandson of the former Prime Minster of India, Indira Gandhi and great grandson of the first Prime Minister of India, Jawaharlal Nehru. He has one sister Priyanka Vadra. His mother Sonia Gandhi hailed from Turin in Italy.

 

He attended St. Columba School at Delhi and then studied at The Doon School in Dehradun. Later when there were security threats to his family, he and his sister Priyanka were home schooled. He joined St. Stephen’s College at Delhi in 1989 and later moved to Harvard University. He completed his B. A. in 1994 at Rollins College. He was known by the pseudonym Raul Vinci at that time for security reasons. He pursued his M. Phil from Trinity College in Cambridge University in 1995.

 

He was working with the Monitor Group in London. He became a director of the Backops Services Private Ltd in Mumbai. He has a girlfriend Veronique who is a Spanish architect. She is living in Venezuela.

 

There was great speculation that he would join politics in 2003. He appeared with his mother at the public events in 1999. He announced his entry into politics in March 2004 and contested in the May 2004 elections from Amethi constituency. He was concentrating mainly on the constituency issues until 2006.

 

 He was appointed as the general secretary of the All India Congress committee on 24th September 2007. He was given the charge of Indian Youth Congress and National Students Union of India.

 

He retained Amethi constituency in the 2009 Lok Sabha election. He was arrested and released on 11th May 2011 for supporting the agitating farmers. It was said that he detained a girl and her parents from 2007 and the family accused him of raping the girl. When this was found to be false, they were heavily penalized by the court. 

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