rahul gandhi early life

Gandhi was born in Delhi on 19 June 1970,[3] as the first of the two children of Rajiv Gandhi, who later became the Prime Minister of India, and Italian-born Sonia Gandhi, who later became President of Indian National Congress, and as the grandson of the then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi. His paternal grandfather Feroze Gandhi was a Parsi from Gujarat.[4] He is also the great-grandson of India's first Prime Minister, Jawaharlal Nehru. Priyanka Vadra is his younger sister[5] and Robert Vadra is his brother-in-law. He identifies himself as a Hindu Brahmin.[6]

Gandhi attended St. Columba's School, Delhi[7] before entering The Doon School in Dehradun, Uttarakhand from 1981 to 1983. Meanwhile, his father had joined politics and became the Prime Minister on 31 October 1984 when Indira Gandhi was assassinated. Due to the security threats faced by Indira Gandhi's family from Sikh extremists, Rahul Gandhi and his sister, Priyanka were home-schooled thereafter.[8]

Gandhi joined St. Stephen's College, Delhi in 1989 for his undergraduate education but moved to Harvard University after he completed the first year examinations.[9] In 1991, after Rajiv Gandhi was assassinated by the Tamil Tigers (LTTE)[10] during an election rally, he shifted to Rollins College in Florida, USA, due to security concerns and obtained his B.A. in 1994.[11] During his time at Rollins, he assumed the pseudonym Raul Vinci and his identity was known only to the university officials and security agencies.[9][12] He further went on to obtain an M.Phil from Trinity College, Cambridge in 1995.[13]

After graduation, Rahul Gandhi worked at the Monitor Group, a management consulting firm, in London.[14] In 2002, he was one of the directors of Mumbai-based technology outsourcing firm Backops Services Private Ltd.[15] While in 2004, Gandhi had told the press that he had a Spanish girlfriend, an architect, living in Venezuela, whom he had met while studying in England.[16][17] In 2013, he suggested that he may not get married.[18]