Monitoring Desk
CHANDIGARH: Amid talk raging about Congress leader Rahul Gandhi wearing a T-shirt despite the winter chill during the Bharat Jodo Yatra, he said on Monday that he decided to wear only T-shirts during the march after meeting three poor girls “shivering in torn clothes” in Madhya Pradesh.
While in Haryana’s Ambala, addressing a street corner meeting, he said that people ask him why he is wearing this white T-shirt, don’t you feel cold? He will tell why the yatra began in Kerala; it was hot and humid. But when they entered Madhya Pradesh, it was slightly chilly.
Three poor girl children in torn clothes came to him, and when he held them, they were shivering as they were not wearing proper attire. On that day, he decided that till the time he did not shiver, he would only wear a T-shirt.
Rahul Gandhi said he wanted to send out a message to those girls that when he started shivering, he would think of wearing a sweater. He said he wanted to message those three girls that if they felt cold, Rahul Gandhi would also feel cold.
During Uttar Pradesh’s yatra, the Wayanad MP said last week that the media is highlighting his attire but taking “no notice of the poor farmers and laborers walking along with him in torn clothes.”
Rahul Gandhi on cold weather, farmers
Rahul Gandhi said in a Bhagpat that being in T-shirt is not a real question; the real question is why are the poor labourers, farmers of the country, and their children are in T-shirts, torn clothes, and without sweaters.
Talking about the farmers who protested against now repealed central farm laws, Rahul Gandhi said that the Congress party raised demand in Parliament that to at least acknowledge the sacrifice of 700 farmers who had died during the stir against firm laws, but the current government of India is not accepting that they had died.
