Can Rahul Gandhi’s Padayatra Revive Congress’ Fortune? By Deepak Parvatiyar May 16, 2015 5.00 / 5 (100.00%) 1 vote To curious onlookers, Rahul Gandhi seems a quintessential traveller. Not many contemporary Indian politicians have traversed the globe as much as the Gandhi scion. He has shown the gumption of treading hitherto unknown terrains of the country, and his ways have been ingenious. A few years back, he stopped over a dalit’s house to grab a meal in a nondescript Jawahar Singh ka Purwa village in Amethi district in Uttar Pradesh in 2008, and hogged the headlines. There is no ambiguity over the purpose of crisscrossing the countryside – they are all politically driven! Even his supposedly private foreign junkets, too! His recent two-months-long disappearance to some unknown foreign destinations is an example. It grabbed public attention but he avoided media scrutiny. That was indeed one of the most discussed private tours of a fallen public figure th
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