On the eve of Congress party’s foundation day, youth leader Rahul Gandhi has flown off to Milan in Italy reportedly in a Qatar airlines flight, for a ‘short personal visit.
AICC spokesman Randeep Surjewala, as quoted by PTI, said, “Rahul Gandhi has left for a short personal visit abroad and will be away for a few days”.
In an article published in ThePrint, since 2015, Rahul Gandhi has travelled abroad at least 247 times — an average 62 trips in a year, which amounts to five a month.
Gandhi, who had led the opposition parties to protest against the farm bill has again left the country just a few days after he met President Ram Nath Kovind where he and two different opposition delegations asked for the revocation of the three recently passed farm legislation.
Rahul Gandhi has a very poor track record in attending parliament and asking questions. Just a while back the Congress leader missed the debates in the parliament over the agricultural laws along with Sonia Gandhi citing the latter’s health issues.
In 2019, Rahul Gandhi had lost his seat in Amethi constituency to BJPs Smrithi Irani. This seat was party crown jewel and a short while later he left far foreign trip to an undisclosed location and for an undisclosed reason.
He even called Prime Minister Narendra Modi “an incompetent man” and recently quipped, “Democracy…. which country are you talking about? There is no democracy in India. It is in your imagination but not in reality.
India is now an imaginary democracy. pic.twitter.com/4WZJiJ9Xel
— Rahul Gandhi (@RahulGandhi) December 24, 2020
The serially absent leader also had sent out a tweet quoting a famous poem written by poet Dwarika Prasad Maheshwari which is about never quitting no matter how adverse the situation or opponent it.
वीर तुम बढ़े चलो
— Rahul Gandhi (@RahulGandhi) December 27, 2020
धीर तुम बढ़े चलो
वॉटर गन की बौछार हो
या गीदड़ भभकी हज़ार हो
तुम निडर डरो नहीं
तुम निडर डटो वहीं
वीर तुम बढ़े चलो
अन्नदाता तुम बढ़े चलो! pic.twitter.com/MqsuS9QxEj
Soon after the news broke, keywords like Italy and Milan became of the top trends on Twitter.
Also, just a few days ago party spokesperson Randeep Surjewala had said that 99.99 per cent of Congressmen still think Rahul Gandhi to be the right person to lead the party amid dissent by senior leaders demanding an organizational overhaul of the party.