the new, fun, accessible Rahul Gandhi

New Delhi: That one in all Rahul Gandhi’s strongest pictures was clicked on Gandhi Jayanti is considerably poetic, provided that when the Bharat Jodo Yatra was conceived on the Congress’s ‘Nav Sankalp Shivir’ in Could, the concept was to “return to what Mahatma Gandhi would do”.

Armed with that picture of him delivering a speech in heavy rain in Karnataka’s Mysuru, the Congress’s communication equipment has a easy message — Rahul can face up to the rain to handle the plenty, not like Prime Minister Narendra Modi who, the occasion contends, wants a “teleprompter” and an “umbrella“.

“Nothing can cease us,” a drenched Rahul declared throughout his speech on 2 October. Whereas the ‘rain picture’ has been the most important hit up to now, many different “really feel good” movies have surfaced because the starting of the Congress’s nationwide march.

One such video confirmed Rahul strolling alongside an exhausted outdated girl and providing her water, one other confirmed him serving to a woman put on sneakers, and yet one more confirmed him chatting with a woman from Karnataka who misplaced her dad and mom to Covid-19.

Chief with the humane contact.

Throughout the Bharat Jodo Padyatra, Sh. @RahulGandhi helps just a little lady in carrying sandles. pic.twitter.com/NlvqfY6eOE

— Anshuman Sail (@AnshumanSail) September 18, 2022

The day after his speech in Mysuru, the Congress circulated a photograph of the younger chief making an attempt to peel sugarcane along with his tooth.

Throughout the Kerala section of the yatra, a couple of days earlier than the Mysuru speech, one other video surfaced that confirmed Rahul joking with occasion leaders and pulling former Chief of Opposition Ramesh Chennithala’s leg. Rahul was narrating to Kerala Congress leaders how he and Chennithala weren’t positive whether or not a samosa served to them throughout a pit cease was vegetarian or not. 

“I requested the server and he informed me that it was ‘half veg, half non-veg’,” says Rahul, and the Kerala Congress leaders break into laughter.

Laughter – the remedy to something!

Sneak peek right into a light-hearted second between @RahulGandhi and leaders of @INCKerala#BharatJodoYatra pic.twitter.com/qbAhjPJBfl

— Bharat Jodo (@bharatjodo) September 30, 2022

One other video exhibits Rahul narrating to occasion leaders how, each time he feels drained or his knee hurts, he attracts motivation from a fellow ‘yatri’. He even pulls out a letter he acquired from a younger lady for example his level.

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‘Give attention to Rahul’

Members of the Congress’s communication wing say these visuals purpose to fight two main criticisms incessantly raked up by Rahul’s detractors — that he’s a privileged dynast and an inaccessible chief. A number of Congress leaders who’ve stop Congress over the previous couple of years have additionally levelled comparable fees in opposition to the MP from Wayanad.

Vaibhav Walia, secretary in-charge of the Congress’s communications division, tells ThePrint: “For years now, BJP has been making an attempt to create a picture of Rahul Gandhi through paid propaganda, which may be very completely different from the type of human being he’s.”

“We’re very glad that through this yatra, individuals are attending to know the actual Rahul Gandhi. He’s all the time accessible for his occasion employees,” provides Walia, who’s amongst these strolling your complete size of the yatra.

Because the yatra started on 7 September, Rahul has maintained that he’s not “main” it and is merely part of it.

In one of many two press conferences he’s addressed, he even berated the media when requested whether or not he was “main” the nationwide march and if he was within the operating for the submit of Congress president: “You select to concentrate on me however the concept of the yatra is to contain a whole lot of Congress employees.”

Walia says that each one the yatris eat, keep and sleep alongside Rahul Gandhi and for the hundred-odd people who find themselves decided to stroll your complete size of the march, entry to him and different senior leaders serves as motivation.

“Each alternate day, the yatris sit collectively and speak to him. He’s spending hours speaking to completely different teams. Day by day, 4-5 Bharat yatris stroll with him for 20 minutes to half an hour,” Walia factors out.

(Edited by Amrtansh Arora)

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