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His father, grandmother and great-grandfather were Prime Ministers and his mother, Sonia Gandhi, who is chief of the Congress party, is arguably India's most powerful politician. Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi faces his biggest political test in 2014. He is often seen as a Prime-Minister-in-waiting but the Congress party has refrained from naming Gandhi as their prime ministerial nominee.
In 2004, Gandhi entered the electoral fray and won the traditional family constituency of Amethi in Uttar Pradesh, a seat once head by his father former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi.
Gandhi was nominated to head the Congress party's election campaign in January this year. He barely registered his presence in the Lok Sabha despite being a member for the last decade.
The Amethi MP has tried to introduce major changes in the process of picking candidates, make the candidate selection process more democratic and politically empower workers at the grassroot level
Last year, he had slammed a Cabinet move to protect politicians found guilty of crimes, embarrassing the government led by his own party. In 2012, Gandhi had torn a piece of paper with election promises of opponents at a Uttar Pradesh rally, earning a jibe from Samajwadi Party’s Akhilesh Yadav on anger not being good for health.
Gandhi has predicted the Congress would do better this year than in the 2009 Lok Sabha elections when it had won 206 seats.
