Varun Gandhi
| Varun Gandhi | |
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| Member of Parliament | |
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Assumed office 16 May 2014 |
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| Preceded by | Sanjay Singh |
| Constituency | Sultanpur, Uttar Pradesh |
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General Secretary Bharatiya Janata Party |
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Assumed office 19 June 2013 |
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| President | Rajnath Singh |
| Member of Parliament | |
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In office 2009–2014 |
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| Preceded by | Maneka Gandhi |
| Succeeded by | Maneka Gandhi |
| Constituency | Pilibhit |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
Varun Sanjay Gandhi 13 March 1980 New Delhi, Delhi, India |
| Nationality | Indian |
| Political party | Bharatiya Janata Party |
| Spouse(s) | Yamini Gandhi |
| Relations | See Nehru–Gandhi family |
| Children | Anasuyaa Gandhi |
| Parents |
Sanjay Gandhi (father) Maneka Gandhi (mother) |
| Residence | New Delhi, India |
| Religion | Hinduism |
| As of 16 May, 2014 Source: [1] |
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Varun Sanjay Gandhi (born 13 March 1980) is an Indian politician; he is a member of Lok Sabha, the lower house of Parliament of India, representing the Sultanpur constituency. He is a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party and was inducted into Rajnath Singh's team in March 2012 as National General Secretary, becoming the youngest General Secretary in the history of the party. Varun Gandhi is a member of the Nehru-Gandhi family.
Varun Gandhi was born in Delhi on 13 March 1980 to Sanjay Gandhi and Maneka Gandhi. He is the grandson of former Prime Minister of India, Indira Gandhi and the great-grandson of India's first Prime Minister, Jawaharlal Nehru. Varun was born soon after Indira Gandhi regained power in the 1980 general elections. Sanjay Gandhi died in a plane crash when Varun was three months old in June 1980. Indira was assassinated when Varun was four years old on 31 October 1984. Indira Gandhi is said to have been very fond of Varun.
Varun attended Rishi Valley School and Modern School C.P. New Delhi and the British School, New Delhi, where he was elected secretary of the student council.
Varun Gandhi was first introduced to the Pilibhit constituency by his mother during the 1999 election campaigning. Maneka had been a part of the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) since earlier but she and Varun formally joined BJP in 2004. Varun Gandhi campaigned for the party in the 2004 elections, covering over 40 constituencies.
In an interview to Stephen Sackur in BBC's HARDtalk in October 2005, Gandhi answered questions about the reasons behind his political affiliation and defended his father as someone who had helped revive the industrialisation of India by starting Maruti Udyog and whose strategy helped the Congress party's comeback after the first ever non-Congress Janata Party government following an electoral routing for the Indira Gandhi-government after Emergency, among many other things.
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