Media “Noticing My T-Shirt”, Ignoring “Torn Clothes” Of Poor: Rahul Gandhi

TIL Desk/National/Baghpat/ Congress leader Rahul Gandhi has said the purpose of party’s ‘Bharat Jodo Yatra’ is to remove fear from the people’s minds and highlight issues like price rise and unemployment.

Amid raging talks about him wearing a T-shirt in the winter during the yatra, Mr Gandhi said the media is highlighting his attire but “taking no notice of the poor farmers and labourers walking along with him in torn clothes”.

Addressing a ‘nukkad sabha’ (street corner meeting) at Baraut on the Baghpat-Shamli border during the yatra, Mr Gandhi said despite covering a distance of more than 3,000 km on foot in 110 days, he is neither feeling tired nor sizzling in the cold in T-shirt.

Taking potshots at the media, he said, “I call them ‘mitra’ (friend) but they are not performing the duty of a friend as they do not raise the real issues out of fear of their bosses.”