Varun Gandhi is an Indian politician who belongs to the Nehru-Gandhi family. He is a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party and a Lok Sabha member from the Philibhit constituency.
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Varun Gandhi was born as ‘Feroze Varun Gandhi’ on 13 March 1980 (age 39 years; as in 2019) in Delhi. His zodiac sign is Pisces.
Varun Gandhi with his grandmother
Varun did his schooling from Rishi Valley School, Modern School CP New Delhi and then British School, New Delhi. He holds a BSc degree in Economics (Hons) from the London School of Economics and Political Science, which he obtained through distance learning provision.
Physical Appearance
Height (Approx): 5′ 9″
Weight (Approx): 75”
Eye colour: black
Hair Color: Black
Family, Caste and Wife
Varun Gandhi is from the Nehru-Gandhi family. His father, Sanjay Gandhi, was a politician.
Sanjay Gandhi
His mother Maneka Gandhi is an environmentalist and politician.
Maneka Gandhi
Her grandmother, the late Indira Gandhi (first female Prime Minister of India), and her grandfather, Feroze Gandhi (journalist), were both politicians.
Indira Gandhi
Firoz Gandhi
His great grandfather Pt. Jawaharlal Nehru was a freedom fighter and the first Prime Minister of independent India.
Pandit Jawahar Lal Nehru
Her great-grandmother Kamala Nehru was also a freedom fighter.
Kamla 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, who served as the President of the Indian National Congress (INC) from 14 March 1998 to 16 December 2017.
Sonia Gandhi
Rahul Gandhi (politician) and Priyanka Gandhi (politician) are his cousins.
Rahul Gandhi
He is married to Yamini Roy Chowdhury, a graphic designer, and has a daughter named Anasuya Gandhi.
Varun Gandhi and his wife, Yamini Roy Chowdhury
Maneka Gandhi her granddaughter Anasuya Gandhi
They had another daughter named Adya Priyadarshini, who died at the age of 4 months.
livelihood
Varun Gandhi formally 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 by 419,539 votes and defeated his nearest rival candidate VM Singh by a margin of 281,501 votes. This was by a margin the most important victory in the Gandhi family. In 2013, Rajnath Singh, who was the BJP chief at the time, appointed Varun as the general secretary of the BJP. He became the youngest ever General Secretary of the party. In the 2014 general elections, Varun contested from Sultanpur constituency and defeated Amrita Singh. In the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, he contested and won from Pilibhit constituency.
literary work
Varun Gandhi writes articles and policies for newspapers and magazines like The Times of India, The Hindustan Times, The Economic Times, The Indian Express, The Asian Age, The Hindu, Outlook. He also writes columns for Malayala Manorama, Lokmat, Hindustan Times, Rajasthan Patrika, Punjab Kesari, Amar Ujala, Sandesh, Bartman, Sakshi and many others.
Varun Gandhi’s column in the newspaper
Varun wrote his first volume of poems ‘The Otherness of Self’ in 2000.
In 2018, he released his book “A Rural Manifesto: Realizing India’s Future Through Her Villages” on the Indian rural economy.
A Rural Manifesto: Realizing India’s Future Through Its Villages, by Varun Gandhi
controversies
- During his election campaign in Pilibhit in the 2009 Lok Sabha elections, he gave an inflammatory speech against Muslims. A case was registered against him. He was arrested and had to remain behind bars for 20 days.
- On 29 March 2009, Uttar Pradesh booked Varun Gandhi under the National Security Act for inciting communal tension in India.
- While filing a petition in the Allahabad High Court in 2009 to quash the hate speech case against him, he created another controversy regarding his educational certificates; As in his petition, he had mentioned that he was a graduate from LSE (London School of Economics and Political Science) and post-graduation from SOAS (School of Oriental and African Studies). But the university refuted his claim of any such degree taken by him and clarified that he had obtained his degree (BSc in Economics) at LSE through long distance education provision, and he had only obtained his degree at SOAS (BSc in Sociology M.Sc.) Never completed my degree.
- Former IPL chief Lalit Modi, who was sacked by the Enforcement Directorate on money laundering charges in 2015, said that Varun Gandhi had met him in London a few years ago and told him (Lalit) that Varun would sort out everything with him. Aunt, Sonia Gandhi. He also asked Varun to clarify whether he was in his house or not. Sonia Gandhi had to come forward to refute Lalit’s allegations.
- In 2016, arms dealer and manufacturer, Abhishek Verma alleged that Varun Gandhi had leaked defense secrets to him. However, Varun has denied the allegations. Later Abhishek also claimed that all the reports were fabricated.
net worth
His net worth is around Rs. 60 crores (in 2019).
Favourite Things
- Author: Ruben Banerjee, Rana Safvi
- Books: ‘The Nobel Lecture’ by Bob Dylan, ‘Naveen Patnaik’ by Ruben Banerjee, ‘City of My Heart’ by Rana Safavi, ‘Lakshminaama: Monks, Merchants, Money and Mantra’ by Anshuman Tiwari, ‘Mumbai Fables’ ‘Knowledge’ by light
fact
- When Varun was three months old, his father Sanjay Gandhi died in a plane crash.
- Varun was introduced to politics by his mother during the 1999 election campaign.
- Her second volume of poems, titled “Stillness”, was published by HarperCollins in April 2015. The book became a bestselling non-fiction book, selling over 10,000 copies in the first two days of its release.
- In 2011, Varun offered his official residence to Anna Hazare to hold his fast, but the government rejected it. When Anna was jailed, Varun offered to introduce Jan Lokpal Bill in Parliament. He also went to Ramlila Maidan to support Anna Hazare’s cause.
- In 2011, their daughter Aadya Priyadarshini, whom they named after their grandmother Indira Priyadarshini, died at the age of 4 months. Reportedly, the incident traumatized Varun to such an extent that he took a leave from politics for almost two months.
- He started a company named ‘Rajdhani’, which is an analytics company for commodity training.
- In 2015, he vowed that he would donate his salary as an MP to the families of farmers who were forced to end their lives due to the farm crisis.
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