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THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Congress former president Rahul Gandhi has termed Kerala his “second home” on seeing the large public response to his Bharat Jodo Yatra. As the Kerala leg of the yatra after traversing 540km by eight districts accomplished on Thursday morning, the Gandhi scion wrote in his Facebook web page, “Home is where you get love, and Kerala is home for me. No matter how much affection I give, I always get more in return from the people here…”
Rahul Gandhi has recorded the necessary developments throughout his padayatra as a part of a plan to write down a ebook on the mission he has undertaken. On Thursday, he and his entourage needed to stroll solely 8km from Marthoma College Junction, Chungathara, Nilambur, earlier than crossing over to Gudalur in Tamil Nadu on his option to Karnataka.
On the eve of the end result of the yatra in Nilambur, Rahul Gandhi convened a particular assembly of the Congress state leaders who had taken half within the stroll within the final 18 days. At the assembly at Wandoor, Rahul Gandhi specifically congratulated senior Congress MP Okay Muraleedharan who he termed “Number 1” and UDF convener M M Hassan “Number 2” who walked together with him for the utmost distance.
He posted a video of him interacting with the leaders which revealed how he had continued the arduous stroll regardless of having a knee downside. Rahul Gandhi took out a chunk of paper from his trouser pocket and skim out a word written by a small lady to him, “With hardship, there has to be eased.” He additional added, “I’m thinking of hardship, hardship, hardship and it has to be eased. Somebody (the girl) has now come and helped me in my most difficult time. Every time, I had trouble, somebody from the public or somebody from here (Kerala leaders) came and pulled me out of the trouble.”
Hassan who walked together with him for 11 days recalled how Rahul Gandhi had hugged him and senior Congress chief Ramesh Chennithala which was a solemn second earlier than he bade adieu at Vazhimukku.
“When Rahul Gandhi asked us to share our experiences before the camera on the padayatra, the political aspects and the reaction of the people, some of us were shy, but he implored us to speak without any inhibition as it would be edited properly. It was then that we were told that Rahul Gandhi was penning a book on his historical Bharat Jodo Yatra,” Hassan advised TNIE.
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Congress former president Rahul Gandhi has termed Kerala his “second home” on seeing the large public response to his Bharat Jodo Yatra. As the Kerala leg of the yatra after traversing 540km by eight districts accomplished on Thursday morning, the Gandhi scion wrote in his Facebook web page, “Home is where you get love, and Kerala is home for me. No matter how much affection I give, I always get more in return from the people here…”
Rahul Gandhi has recorded the necessary developments throughout his padayatra as a part of a plan to write down a ebook on the mission he has undertaken. On Thursday, he and his entourage needed to stroll solely 8km from Marthoma College Junction, Chungathara, Nilambur, earlier than crossing over to Gudalur in Tamil Nadu on his option to Karnataka.
On the eve of the end result of the yatra in Nilambur, Rahul Gandhi convened a particular assembly of the Congress state leaders who had taken half within the stroll within the final 18 days. At the assembly at Wandoor, Rahul Gandhi specifically congratulated senior Congress MP Okay Muraleedharan who he termed “Number 1” and UDF convener M M Hassan “Number 2” who walked together with him for the utmost distance.
He posted a video of him interacting with the leaders which revealed how he had continued the arduous stroll regardless of having a knee downside. Rahul Gandhi took out a chunk of paper from his trouser pocket and skim out a word written by a small lady to him, “With hardship, there has to be eased.” He additional added, “I’m thinking of hardship, hardship, hardship and it has to be eased. Somebody (the girl) has now come and helped me in my most difficult time. Every time, I had trouble, somebody from the public or somebody from here (Kerala leaders) came and pulled me out of the trouble.”
Hassan who walked together with him for 11 days recalled how Rahul Gandhi had hugged him and senior Congress chief Ramesh Chennithala which was a solemn second earlier than he bade adieu at Vazhimukku.
“When Rahul Gandhi asked us to share our experiences before the camera on the padayatra, the political aspects and the reaction of the people, some of us were shy, but he implored us to speak without any inhibition as it would be edited properly. It was then that we were told that Rahul Gandhi was penning a book on his historical Bharat Jodo Yatra,” Hassan advised TNIE.