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Indira Gandhi with toddler Rahul. Indira is said to have doted on her first grandchild. She would often steal time from her busy schedule as prime minister to be with him and Priyanka.
Photograph courtesy Indian Express Archive

Rajiv Gandhi with a fourteen-year-old Rahul on 5 November 1984 at Teen Murti Bhavan in New Delhi, a few days after Prime Minister Indira Gandhi’s death. Rajiv’s prime ministership was ushered in suddenly by his mother’s brutal assassination at the hands of her Sikh bodyguards on 31 October that year. His life and political career ended abruptly on 21 May 1991 at the hands of Sri Lankan Tamil insurgents. Both events affected Rahul’s life significantly.
Photograph courtesy Indian Express Archive

Rahul Gandhi with Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Omar Abdullah at an election rally at Vijaypur, 35 kilometres from Jammu, in April 2009. Rahul was instrumental in Omar getting the position of chief minister of the northern Indian state, in January 2009, where the Congress and the National Conference are in a coalition. Omar’s grandfather Sheikh Abdullah was a friend of Rahul’s great-grandfather, Jawaharlal Nehru.
Photograph by Amarjeet Singh

Delhi Pradesh Congress Committee president, Jai Prakash Agarwal (right), offers a garland to Party general secretary Rahul Gandhi (centre) during the eighty-third plenary session of the Indian National Congress in New Delhi on 19 December 2010. Rahul used the occasion to assert the supremacy of the Party over the government and rebuked ministers for not giving enough time to party workers.
Photograph by Raul Irani

Rahul interacts with Congress president Sonia Gandhi’s political secretary Ahmed Patel at the release function of the Party’s manifesto on 24 March 2009 at 24 Akbar Road, New Delhi. Rahul got subject experts to make presentations to the committee drafting the manifesto so that they could get a better grip on the country’s problems. In day-to-day affairs, Rahul has mostly kept his distance from the old guard in the Party represented by the likes of Patel.
Photograph courtesy Fotocorp

Rahul with Digvijaya Singh, the Congress general secretary in charge of Uttar Pradesh, and other members of his core team (in silhouette) at a congregation of Bhatta—Parsaul farmers in Greater Noida on 11 May 2011. A close adviser of Rahul, Singh has been advocating his taking over both the Party leadership and the prime minister’s post for a long time.
Photograph by Ravi Choudhary

Rahul Gandhi with locals at Nangla Bhatana village about 80 kilometres from New Delhi, on 7 July 2011, during his ‘Kisan Sandesh Yatra’—the three-day march on foot he led through western Uttar Pradesh. Rahul joined farmers protesting against the acquisition of their land by the state government headed by Bahujan Samaj Party chief Mayawati. The 2012 assembly election in Uttar Pradesh pitches the two against each other.
Photograph by Ashish Sharma

Rahul Gandhi inaugurated the Guru Tegh Bahadur Memorial, dedicated to the ninth Sikh guru, near the Delhi-Haryana border on 30 July 2011. He thanked the Sikhs saying, ‘Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is taking the nation forward. You gave him to us and for this, the entire nation is thankful to you.’ Rahul has been trying to build bridges with the community given the violent events of 1984.
Photograph by Ashish Sharma

With sister Priyanka Gandhi Vadra in New Delhi on 28 September 2011. The two distributed 220 three-wheeled scooters to the physically challenged at a programme organized by the Rajiv Gandhi Foundation. With Sonia suffering from an undisclosed ailment that required surgery in August 2011, many in the Party expect Priyanka to take the plunge into electoral politics in the next Lok Sabha election.
Photograph by Raul Irani

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh with UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi shortly after Singh’s government won the July 2008 trust vote. Singh has said, more than once, that he would be happy to make way for someone younger.
Photograph courtesy Fotocorp

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Ghose, Sagarika. 2004. I’m Young, I Have Ideas, I Believe I Can Bring Change. 30 March.

Gopinath, Vrinda. 2004. My Girlfriend Is Spanish: Rahul Gandhi. 28 April.

Masood, Bashaarat. 2011. In Valley, Rahul Waits for Questions—and Gets Some Answers Too. 27 September.

PM Can’t Just Say I Am a Good Man but Every Other Man Is Making Money. 26 December 2010.

Singh, D.K. 2007. Rahul Meet Focuses on Poll Challenges. 27 September.

_____. 2008. Rahul’s New Team in Place. 18 January.

_____. 2008. Marksheets in Hand, MPs, MLAs Line Up for Rahul’s Talent Search. 12 June.

_____. 2008. Congress Plans Grassroots Revival, to Fall Back on Gandhi. 5 September.

_____. 2008. Rahul: If I’d Not Come from Gandhi Family, I Wouldn’t Be Here. 21 October.

_____. 2009. Why the Congress Is Going Solo. 29 March.

_____. 2009. Why Rahul Is Known as ‘Priyanka’s Brother’ Here. 24 April.

_____. 2009. Rahul Talent Hunt Set to Go National. 11 July.

_____. 2009. Mission 2012: Congress Begins Search for UP Candidates. 11 August.

_____. 2010. Dear Rahul … Yours Sincerely Manmohan Singh. 11 April.

_____. 2010. Sonia Raps Hooda Over Caste Violence. 30 April.

_____. 2010. The First Thousand Days. 15 June.

_____. 2010. Rahul Gets His First Reality Check 4/234. 25 November.

_____. 2010. Rahul’s ‘New Youth Cong’: Same Old Same Old. 14 December.

TV Journalists Quizzed for ‘Stealing’ NSUI Papers. 25 January 2009.

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_____. 2004. Fear of the Family. 26 April.

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Congress’s Hot Potato: Rahul Gandhi Kicks Up a Storm in UP. 30 April 2007.

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_____. 2004. Silver Linings, Clouds. 10 May.

_____. 2004. The Angelic Hierarchy:
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_____. 2010. The Lady in the Saree. 22 March.

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Sahgal, Priya. 2007. Family First. 30 April.

_____. 2009. The Rahul Offensive. 19 May.

The New Mrs G. 2 December 2002.

1984 Sikh Carnage Was Wrong: Rahul.
http://www.indianexpress.com/news/1984-sikh-carnage-was-wrongrahul/387614/

Gandhi, Rahul. Plight of Sugarcane Growers in Uttar Pradesh and Other Parts of the Country.
http://164.100.47.132/LssNew/psearch/Result14.aspx?dbsl=1778

Gandhi, Rahul.
Budget Speech, 2006–07
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http://164.100.47.132/LssNew/psearch/Result14.aspx?dbsl=5113

Gandhi, Rahul. Further Discussion on the Motion of Confidence in the Council of Minister Moved by Dr. Manmohan Singh on the 21st July, 2008.
http://164.100.47.132/LssNew/psearch/Result14.aspx?dbsl=10243

Gandhi, Rahul. Need of a Comprehensive Political Programme to Eradicate Corruption.
http://164.100.47.132/LssNew/psearch/Result15.aspx?dbsl=5349

Gandhi, Rahul. 2004 affidavit.
http://eci.nic.in/GE2004_Affidavits/Uttar%20Pradesh/Affidavits/21/RahulGandhi/RahulGandhi_SC1.html

Gandhi, Sonia. 18 May 2004. Speech.
http://in.rediff.com/election/2004/may/18sonia2.htm

Stung by Verdict, Maya Turns to Dalits Again.
http://election.rediff.com/report/2009/may/19/loksabhapoll-stung-by-verdict-mayawati-turns-to-dalits-again.htm