Rahul Gandhi is the son of former Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi
and Congress president Sonia Gandhi. Rahul and his younger sister,
Priyanka have been in the public eye since the day they were born as at
the time their grandmother Indira Gandhi was India's Prime Minister.
Even their great-grandfather Jawaharlal Nehru was a prime minister of
India, in fact, the first.
Rahul studied in Modern School, New Delhi for a while and then went to
St. Stephen's College (Delhi) where he did History Hons. After that he
went to Harvard and then to London where he was a financial consultant.
He returned to India in 1999 and was seen alongside his mother, Sonia
Gandhi during the 1999 Lok Sabha campaign.
Rahul has not been too much in the public eye, but has always retained
a certain enigma about him. The Indian public is always interested to
learn the latest information about him. He is still not married, but is
said to have a Columbian girlfriend. Rahul Gandhi and his sister
Priyanka spoke to the media for the first time in January 2004 while
touring Amethi, the constituency in Uttar Pradesh that has been
represented by their father and is currently represented by their
mother. Rahul Gandhi and his sister, Priyanka went to Karachi and
watched the first ODI match between India and Pakistan in March 2004
and the public in Pakistan were happy to see them. Their presence in
the match proved to be luck for India, it won. The enigma about whether
Rahul Gandhi will enter active politics is now over. On March 21, 2004
the Congress party announced that Rahul Gandhi would be the Congress
party's candidate for the Lok Sabha seat from Amethi, currently
represented by his mother, Sonia, who has shifted her constituency to
Rae Barelli.
