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Varun Gandhi is an Indian politician and a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party. He is a third-term MP from Pilibhit and a member of the Nehru–Gandhi family.
Mar 13, 2024 · Learn about Varun Gandhi, the politician and writer from the Nehru-Gandhi family. Find out his age, wife, education, achievements, controversies and more.
- Feroze Varun Gandhi
- Politician
- Bharatiya Janata Party
Mar 29, 2024 · An outsider in Nehru-Gandhi family, who never became an insider in the Sangh Parivar, the 43-year-old has tried hard Hindutva and the middle path, and landed right at the crossroads again.
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Nov 25, 2018 · Feroze Varun Gandhi, the youngest Gandhi, joined the BJP but was sidelined by Modi and Shah. He lost his four-month-old daughter Aadya in 2011 and changed his outlook on life and politics.
- The Rise
- Election
- Activism
- Before He Fell
- The Fall
Varun Gandhi hogged political limelight in March 2009 at a public rally in a Pilibhit village. His speech led to two cases against him for making controversial statements aimed at disturbing communal harmony. Varun Gandhi surrendered before a court and was sent to judicial custody. The then Mayawati government of Uttar Pradesh booked Varun Gandhi u...
Varun Gandhi was on a high, with observers predicting the Nehru-Gandhi scion's rise in the BJP. He contested and won the Lok Sabha election in 2009 from the Pilibhit seat in Uttar Pradesh. His mother Maneka Gandhi — who was also dropped from the BJP national executive — had been contesting from Pilibhit since 1989. Since then, Varun Gandhi won two ...
Varun Gandhi was one of the BJP leaders who openly came out in support of the 2011 anti-graft movement of Anna Hazare and Arvind Kejriwal, who went on to form his own political outfit, the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) and became the Delhi chief minister. When the then Congress-led government denied Anna Hazare permission to hold his protest, he offered hi...
Varun Gandhi’s rise in the BJP was swift when Rajnath Singh was at the helm of affairs. Rajnath Singh was the BJP president when Varun Gandhi contested his first Lok Sabha election in 2009. In 2013, Varun Gandhi was reported as the only Lok Sabha MP to have utilised the total fund available under the MPLAD scheme. The same year in March, Varun Gand...
The BJP won the 2014 Lok Sabha election securing a single-party majority in parliamentary election after 30 years. Amit Shah, now the Union home minister and a trusted ally of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, became the BJP president. Varun Gandhi gradually lost his prominence in the BJP. In Amit Shah’s BJP, Varun Gandhi, in August 2014, lost his posi...
- Prabhash K Dutta
- India
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The BJP has denied Varun Gandhi a ticket from Pilibhit, sparking speculations that he may contest the 2024 Lok Sabha election as an independent candidate from the seat. Meanwhile, speculations...
Mar 28, 2024 · New Delhi: The Bharatiya Janata Party's Varun Gandhi - not picked to defend his Lok Sabha seat in Uttar Pradesh's Pilibhit - has written to the people of his soon-to-be former constituency to...
