Rahul Gandhi Appointed as Vice President of INC - Saturday Jan 19,2013

Rahul Gandhi's appontment as VP took place at a meeting of the Congress Working Committee, which unanimously adopted a resolution moved by Defence Minister AK Antony to make him the party's No. 2 behind his mother, who remains the party president.

Rahul Gandhi is greeted by finance minister P Chidambaram after he was appointed as vice president of the Congress party in Jaipur.

About Rahul Gandhi - Personal & Political Details

• Rahul Gandhi(DOB June 19, 1970)was born in Delhi  to Rajiv and Sonia Gandhi, their first child,grew up in the non-political part of the family.

• Rahul Gandhi  is the great grandson of India's first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru

• Rahul Gandhi is the grandson of its first woman Prime Minister Indira Gandhi(3rd PM) and

• Rahul Gandhi is  the son of its youngest Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi(6th PM) and also of the party's longest-serving chief, Sonia Gandhi. 

• Rahul Gandhi announced his entry into politics and first fought the Lok Sabha elections in 2004, contesting from the traditional family constituency of Amethi in U. P when Congress had been doing poorly in Uttar Pradesh, holding only 10 of the 80 Lok Sabha seats in the state at the time.

• Rahul Gandhi became one of the Congress party's general secretaries in September 2007 and accepted charge of the Indian Youth Congress and National Students Union of India (NSUI)

• Rahul Gandhi was a prominent figure in the Congress campaign for the 2007 Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections; Congress, however, won only 22 seats with 8.53% of votes.

• In the 2009 General Elections,Rahul Gandhi retained his Amethi seat by defeating his nearest rival by a margin of over 333,000 votes,  was credited with the Congress revival in Uttar Pradesh where they won 21 out of the total 80 Lok Sabha seats. He spoke at 125 rallies across the country in six weeks. The nationawide elections defied the predictions made by pre-poll predictions and exit polls and gave a clear mandate to the incumbent Congress government (80 seats gained)

• In the 2010 Bihar Assembly elections, Mr Gandhi famously urged the Congress to fight alone, without alliances. The Congress won just four seats in a 243-seat Assembly.Nitish Kumar, the Bihar chief minister, ridiculed Mr Gandhi: "He wants to become the prime minister of India. First let him at least become the chief minister of a state. Let him learn governance." 

• Rahul Gandhi is the Chairman of the Congress Coordination Panel for 2014 Lok Sabha polls.