Varun Gandhi was an Indian politician who belonged to the Nehru-Gandhi family. He is a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party and a Lok Sabha member from Philibhit constituency.
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Varun Gandhi was born in Delhi on March 13, 1980, as “Feroze Varun Gandhi” (39 years old in 2019). His zodiac sign is Pisces.
Varun Gandhi and his grandmother
Varun was educated at Rishi Valley School, CP Modern School, New Delhi and British School, New Delhi. He holds a BSc (Hons) in Economics from the London School of Economics and Political Science via distance learning.
appearance
Height (approximately): 5′9″
Weight (approximately): 75”
Eye color: black
Hair color: black
family, caste and wife
Varun Gandhi belongs to the Nehru-Gandhi family. His father Sanjay Gandhi was a politician.
Sanjay Gandhi
His mother, Maneka Gandhi, was an environmentalist and politician.
Maneka Gandhi
His grandmother, the late Indira Gandhi (India’s first female Prime Minister), and grandfather, Feroze Gandhi (a journalist), were both politicians.
indira gandhi
feroz gandhi
His great-grandfather, Pt. Jawaharlal Nehru was a freedom fighter and the first Prime Minister of independent India.
platinum. Jawaharlal Nehru
His great-grandmother Kamala Nehru was also a freedom fighter.
Kamala Nehru
His uncle, the late Rajiv Gandhi, was a politician and Prime Minister of India (1984-89).
rajiv gandhi
Varun’s aunt Sonia Gandhi is also a politician and served as the president of the Indian National Congress from March 14, 1998 to December 16, 2017.
Sonia Gandhi
Rahul Gandhi (politician) and Priyanka Gandhi (politician) are his cousins.
Rahul Gandhi
He is married to graphic designer Yamini Roy Chowdhury and has a daughter named Anasuya Gandhi.
Varun Gandhi and his wife Yamini Roy Chowdhury
Maneka Gandhi her granddaughter Anasuya Gandhi
He also had a daughter named Aadya Priyadarshini who died when she was 4 months old.
Profession
Varun Gandhi officially joined the Bharatiya Janata Party in 2004 along with his mother Maneka Gandhi. In the 2009 general elections, Varun contested from Pilibhit constituency. He won with 419,539 votes and defeated the nearest competing candidate VM Singh by a margin of 281,501 votes. This was the most significant victory achieved by the Gandhi family by a narrow margin. In 2013, then-BJP leader Rajnath Singh appointed Varun as the general secretary of the Bharatiya Janata Party. He became the youngest party general secretary in history. In the 2014 general elections, Varun contested from Sultanpur constituency and defeated Amrita Singh. In the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, he contested from Pilibhit constituency and won.
literary works
Varun Gandhi has written articles and policy for newspapers and magazines such as The Times of India, Hindustan Times, The Economic Times, The Indian Express, The Asian Age, The Hindu, The Outlook and others. He also writes columns for Malayala Manorama, Lokmat, Hindustan Times, Rajasthan Patrika, Punjab Kesari, Amar Ujala, Sandesh, Bartaman, Sakshi, etc.
Varun Gandhi’s column in newspaper
Wallen wrote his first collection of poems, The Other of the Self, in 2000.
In 2018, he published a book on India’s rural economy titled Rural Manifesto: Realizing India’s Future through Villages.
Rural Manifesto: India’s Future Through Villages By Varun Gandhi
dispute
- In 2009, he delivered a provocative speech against Muslims during the Lok Sabha elections in Pilibhit. A lawsuit was filed against him. He was arrested and held for 20 days.
- On March 29, 2009, Uttar Pradesh booked Varun Gandhi under the National Security Act for inciting communal tensions in India.
- In 2009, his educational qualifications sparked another controversy when he filed a petition in the Allahabad High Court to quash the hate speech case against him; as he mentioned in the petition, he graduated from LSE (London Political Science) School of Economics) and a Master’s degree at SOAS (School of Oriental and African Studies). But the university denied that he had any such degree and clarified that he had obtained his degree (BA Economics) at the London School of Economics via distance learning and that he had only enrolled at SOAS (Sociology) Master’s degree) but never completed the degree.
- In 2015, former IPL president Lalit Modi, who was sacked by the Enforcement Directorate on money laundering charges, said Varun Gandhi had met him in London a few years ago and told him (Lalit) that Varun would be with his The subordinates solve all problems. Aunt, Sonia Gandhi. He even asked Varun to clarify whether he had been to his house. Sonia Gandhi had to come forward to deny Lalit’s accusations.
- In 2016, arms dealer and manufacturer Abhishek Verma claimed that Varun Gandhi leaked defense secrets to him. Varun, however, denied the allegations. Later, Abhishek also claimed that all the reports were fabricated.
net worth
His net worth is approximately Rs. 600 million (as of 2019).
favorite thing
- Author: Ruben Banerjee, Rana Safvi
- Books: Bob Dylan’s “Nobel Lecture”, Ruben Banerjee’s “Navan Patnaik”, Rana Safvi’s “City of My Heart”, Anshuman Thi Warli’s “Laxminama: Monks, Businessmen, Money and Mantras”, “Bombay Fables” Gyan Prakash
fact
- Varun’s father, Sanjay Gandhi, died in a plane crash when Varun was three months old.
- Varun was introduced to politics by his mother during the 1999 election campaign.
- His second book of poetry, Silence, was published by HarperCollins in April 2015. The book became a best-selling nonfiction book, selling more than 10,000 copies in its first two days of release.
- In 2011, Varun offered his official residence to Anna Hazare to observe fast, but the government refused. After Anna was imprisoned, Varun proposed the Jan Lokpal bill to the Parliament. He also went to Ramleela Maidan to support the cause of Anna Hazare.
- In 2011, his daughter Aadya Priyadarshini (named after her grandmother Indira Priyadarshini) died at the age of 4 months. The incident reportedly traumatized Varun, leading him to stay away from politics for nearly two months.
- He started a company called ‘Rajdhani’ which is a commodity training analytics company.
- In 2015, he vowed to donate his salary as an MP to the families of farmers forced to end their lives due to the agrarian crisis.
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