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Indian politician (born 1970)

Rahul Rajiv Gandhi (Hindi pronunciation:[ˈraːɦʊlraːdʒiːʋˈɡaːndʱiː]; born 19 June 1970) is an Indian politician. A member of the Indian National Congress (INC), he is currently serving as the 12th leader of the Opposition in Lok Sabha and as the member of the Lok Sabha for Rae Bareli, Uttar Pradesh, since June 2024. He previously represented the constituency of Wayanad, Kerala, from 2019 to 2024, and Amethi, Uttar Pradesh, from 2004 to 2019. Gandhi served as the party president of the Indian National Congress from December 2017 to July 2019.

A member of the Nehru–Gandhi political family, he spent his early years between Delhi and Dehradun, remaining largely outside the public sphere during his childhood and early youth. He received primary education in New Delhi and then attended The Doon School. However, due to security concerns, he was later home-schooled. Gandhi commenced his undergraduate degree at St. Stephen's College before moving to Harvard University. Following his father’s assassination and subsequent security concerns, he moved to Rollins College in Florida, completing his degree in 1994. After earning a M.Phil. from Cambridge, Gandhi initiated his professional career with the Monitor Group, a management consulting firm in London. Soon thereafter, he returned to India and founded Backops Services Private Ltd, a technology outsourcing firm based in Mumbai. He ventured into politics in the 2000s, leading the Indian Youth Congress and National Students Union of India, while also being a trustee of the Rajiv Gandhi Foundation and Rajiv Gandhi Charitable Trust.

Gandhi led the Congress party during the 2014 and 2019 general elections, where the party experienced significant defeats, securing 44 and 52 seats, respectively. Ahead of the 2024 Indian general elections, Gandhi spearheaded the Bharat Jodo Yatra and the Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra, contributing to the INC winning 99

New Delhi, May 27 (Daily Bhaskar) : Eminent Actor-turned-politician Smriti Irani has been named the Human Resource Development Minister (HRD). She challenged the Gandhi scion, Rahul Gandhi in the 2014 general elections and lost. However, she managed to scare the Gandhi scion by reducing his victory margin to just over one lakh votes.

What people may not know is the humble roots of Smriti Irani. When Smriti Irani, was still a schoolgirl in Delhi, her parents invited an astrologer to predict their three daughters’ futures. He declared that while her two younger sisters would do all right, but the eldest daughter’s future is bleak.  Her parents — her half-Punjabi half-Maharashtrian father and Bengali-Assamese mother — had no big dreams for her either.

 But Irani had other ideas. Growing up in Delhi, the self-confessed quiet bookworm wanted to become a civil servant or a journalist. Her father thought that neither profession would suit her. So she did the next best thing she could think of. She packed her bags and left for Mumbai, the city of possibilities. And it certainly did seem like that. Irani decided to enter the Miss India but she failed to win there.

Back then, nothing seemed to go right for her. She would turn up for TV auditions and keep getting rejected. Meanwhile, she had a loan — she had borrowed money from her father — to pay off.

She took the first job she could find — clearing tables and cleaning the floor at a new McDonald’s in Bandra. Her first TV break came when she got a call from the producer of a show called Bakeman’s Ooh La La. That’s where TV producer Shobha Kapoor spotted her.

One thing led to another and Smriti was signed on to play the lead role of Tulsi in the Hindi serial, Kyunki Saas Bhi Kabhi Bahu Thi.  Kyunki… ran for eight years and Irani became India’s most famous television actress even as her character, Tulsi, became India’s most loved daughter-in-law. Tulsi was a role tailormade made for an aspiring w

Indian politician (born 1964)

Piyush Vedprakash Goyal (born 13 June 1964) is an Indian politician who is serving as Minister of Commerce and Industry since 2019. He also served as Minister of Textiles and Minister of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution. He was elevated to the Cabinet Minister position on 3 September 2017. Formerly a Member of Parliament for Rajya Sabha from the state of Maharashtra, he is also the former Leader of the House in Rajya Sabha. Goyal was elected as member of 18th Lok Sabha Representing Mumbai North Lok Sabha constituency.

Earlier, he held the post of the National Treasurer of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). He headed the BJP's Information Communication Campaign Committee where he oversaw the publicity and advertising campaign of the party including the social media outreach for the Indian General Elections 2014. Goyal has also held additional charge of Minister of Finance and Corporate Affairs twice in 2018 and 2019. Earlier he was Minister of State (Independent Charge) for Power, Coal, New & Renewable Energy (2014–2017), and Mines (2016–17).

Goyal is the 2018 Carnot Prize Recipient for distinguished contributions to energy policy. He has been allocated the cabinet ministry for Narendra Modi-led NDA government in May 2019.

Early life

Goyal was born in Mumbai to Chandrakanta Goyal and Ved Prakash Goyal. His mother was a three-time Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Member of Legislative Assembly (MLA) from Maharashtra and his father served as the Union Minister for shipping in the Third Vajpayee ministry from 2001 to 2003. His father also served as the National Treasurer of the BJP for over two decades.

Piyush Goyal is Chartered Accountant with All India Rank 2, and he did Law from Mumbai University. He did his schooling from Don Bosco High School, Matunga.

Career

Goyal started his career as an investment banker and

Violent lawyers and MLAs, student arrests and vigilante squads who bask in political patronage, somewhat evoke the mid-70s and the heyday of Sanjay Gandhi. At that time as now populist frenzy ratcheted up by party-backed strongmen and violent intimidation of opponents, made a government with a massive mandate and a powerful prime minister look very different from its campaign promises.

In fact, colossal mandates in India seem to be subject to the law of diminishing returns. Indira Gandhi swept to victory in 1971 on garibi hatao, but within two years of her Bangladesh war triumph, the Railway strike of 1974 began the countdown for the Emergency. In 1984, Rajiv Gandhi thundered to power on the sympathy wave after Indira’s assassination, only to have the momentum falter with the Shah Bano case and for the honeymoon to be dealt a terminal blow by the Bofors scandal in 1987.

And just two years after the thumping win of 2014, the Modi government seems to be hurtling along on a path of permanent confrontation, the victory lap now transformed into a daily hurdles race. The recent histrionics laden, politically divisive speech by HRD minister Smriti Irani has only reinforced the image of a ‘fighter cock’ government, the likes of which India has perhaps never seen.

Paradoxically, the Vajpayee-led coalition, dependent on allies for survival, energetically pushed forward economic and foreign policy goals from Shining India to peace with Pakistan. The rickety allies- dependent UPA, before it sank in a cesspool of scams, was still able to quietly win political support across the spectrum for a slew of policy breakthroughs from RTI to Nrega to Aadhaar. Weakness in numbers forces accommodation and negotiation.

For the Modi government, by contrast, a huge mandate and the burden of ideology are together creating a gilded cage. From Dadri to the face off with writers, to Rohith Vemula’s death and JNU, the government seems to be in constant fighting mode, a pugilist central admi