Rahul Gandhi, the leader of key opposition party Congress, had a good start in terms of number at both the vote counting as well as the share market on Tuesday.
The share market had a bloodbath since morning with both the Sensex and Nifty falling nearly 5% with investors seeing their wealth chopped by a whopping Rs 39 trillion.
Amid Lok Sabha poll jitters, Sensex tanked nearly 6,100 points to 70,234 points while Nifty50 dropped below 21,300 levels in intra day trade.
However, the Rahul Gandhi’s portfolio witnessed gain or minimal losses.
According to the data from Election Commission of India (ECI), some of the key stocks in Rahul Gandhi’s portfolio includes: Pidilite Industries, Bajaj Finance, Divi’s Laboratories, Nestle India, ITC, Hindustan Unilever, Titan Company, Suprajit Engineering and Tube Investments.
As of 11:49am, Nestle India (Rs 2,385.45), Pidilite Industries (Rs 2,988.45) and Divi’s Labs (Rs 4,343.80) were trading higher by up to 1% each.
While the Bajaj Finance stock (Rs 6,917.60) was trading on a flat note.
The remaining stocks in Rahul Gandhi’s portfolio were also not in that bad situation as compared to the other stocks performance.
Titan Company was down 1% at Rs 3,219.95, Tube Investments of India down by 1% at Rs 3,807, ITC down by 3% at Rs 417.85 and Suprajit Engineering down by 4% at Rs 428.80.
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As of 13:03 PM; NDA was leading on 292 seats and the INDIA Alliance was ahead on 233 seats, while others were on top of 18 seats.
Rahul Gandhi is leading from Uttar Pradesh’s Raebareli Lok Sabha seat with a margin of 1,64,249 votes. He is also leading from Wayanad Lok Sabha seat in Kerala.
The political movements are rapid in New Delhi as the Congress Parliamentary Party Chairperson Sonia Gandhi arrived at the residence of the party’s general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Tuesday.
Rahul Gandhi was also seen leaving from the residence of Sonia Gandhi at 10, Janpath.
