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Varun Gandhi Biography: Age, Career, Family and More

F4U Editorial Desk • Updated October 16, 2026 • 3 min read

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Date of birth13 March 1980

Age45 Years

BirthplaceNew Delhi, Delhi, India

ProfessionPolitician

NationalityIndian

Marital statusMarried

SpouseYamini Roy Chowdhury

FamilyMember of Nehru–Gandhi family (son of Sanjay Gandhi and Maneka Gandhi)

Varun Gandhi Biography

Feroze Varun Gandhi is an Indian politician, writer and member of the Nehru–Gandhi family. A BJP leader who has represented Pilibhit and Sultanpur in Lok S

Early life and background

Feroze Varun Gandhi was born on 13 March 1980 in New Delhi, India. He is a member of the Nehru–Gandhi family: his parents are Sanjay Gandhi and Maneka Gandhi, his grandfather was Feroze Gandhi and his great-grandfather was Jawaharlal Nehru. He grew up in New Delhi and attended Rishi Valley School, Modern School (C.P.), and the British School in New Delhi. He completed a BSc in Economics from the London School of Economics. His listed hometown and birthplace are New Delhi, and his registered nationality is Indian. His zodiac sign is Pisces.

Career

Varun Gandhi entered public life early through exposure to election campaigning by his mother in 1999. He formally joined the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in 2004 alongside his mother, Maneka Gandhi, and went on to build a political career within the party.

He contested his first Lok Sabha election in 2009 from the Pilibhit constituency and won decisively, receiving 419,539 votes and defeating his nearest rival by 281,501 votes. In 2013 he was appointed national general secretary of the BJP by then party chief Rajnath Singh, becoming, at the time, the youngest person to hold that office. In the 2014 general election he won the Sultanpur seat, and in 2019 he again won from Pilibhit in Uttar Pradesh.

Alongside his parliamentary work, Varun Gandhi has been active as a writer and poet. He published his first volume of poems at age 20, and a later collection, Stillness, was issued by HarperCollins in 2015 and reached notable sales early on. He has contributed columns and articles to a range of Indian publications, including The Times of India, The Hindustan Times, The Hindu, The Indian Express, The Economic Times, The Asian Age and Outlook. In 2018 he published A Rural Manifesto: Realizing India’s Future Through Her Villages.

He also runs an analytics company called Rajdhani that provides commodity training.

Public profile

Varun Gandhi is married to Yamini Roy Chowdhury. The couple experienced the loss of a young daughter, Aadya Priyadarshini, in 2011; that event prompted him to step back from active politics for a period. Another daughter listed is Anasuyaa Gandhi.

He is identified with the Hindu faith. His interests include writing blogs and poems, and among his cultural preferences he has cited authors and poets he admires. Physical details listed include a height of approximately 175 cm (5'9") and a weight around 72 kg; his eye and hair color are described as black.

His profile has been marked by several controversies noted in public records, including legal action and allegations linked to speeches and other matters; some of these resulted in acquittals. He has also been criticized at times for political and personal associations. Varun has taken public positions on policy matters such as support for the Jan Lokpal movement and has pledged portions of his MP salary for farmer families affected by agrarian distress.

Latest updates

As of 2019 he continued to hold a Lok Sabha seat, having won elections from Pilibhit and previously from Sultanpur. His writing and publishing activity has remained a visible part of his public life, with both fiction and non-fiction titles to his name. He maintains an active role within the BJP and in public debates on rural and agricultural policy.

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Recent Work

A Rural Manifesto: Realizing India’s Future Through Her Villages

Non-fiction book on rural policy and India's villages.

2018
Stillness

Volume of poems published by HarperCollins.

2015
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Career Highlights

  1. Joined Bharatiya Janata Party in 2004
  2. Won Pilibhit Lok Sabha seat in 2009 and 2019
  3. Appointed BJP national general secretary in 2013 (youngest to hold the post at that time)
  4. Won Sultanpur Lok Sabha seat in 2014
  5. Published books and regular newspaper columns
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