Rahul Tells Kashmir Kids ‘Study, Make Friends’. But Internet Still Wants Him To Listen To Tharoor
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Netizens asked Rahul Gandhi to listen to what Tharoor has to say on importance of Indians speaking up with clarity’ about the ‘horrendous crisis…’
Congress MP Rahul Gandhi at a school in Poonch, which is affected by Pakistan’s cross-border shelling.
Study, play hard and make lot of friends — Congress leader Rahul Gandhi’s suggestion to school children at a school in Kashmir’s Poonch district, which is hit by Pakistan’s cross-border shelling, came at a time when netizens suggested that the Lok Sabha Leader of Opposition should hear what his party colleague Shashi Tharoor. In his latest video, Tharoor said that Indians need to “speak up with clarity and conviction” about the “horrendous crisis that our country was subjected to…”
Gandhi, who visited a school in Poonch, told that students, “Now, you have seen danger and a little bit of a frightening situation, but don’t worry, everything will come back to normal. Your way of responding to this problem should be that you study and play really hard and make a lot of friends in school.”
#WATCH | J&K | Lok Sabha LoP and Congress MP Rahul Gandhi visits a school in Poonch and interacts with the students affected by Pakistan’s cross-border shelling.He says “Now, you have seen danger and a little bit of a frightening situation, but don’t worry, everything will come… pic.twitter.com/Brax5BWDVt
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Some social media users called Gandhi’s interaction “a message of hope”, while some others commented “one good job done”.
The Congress leader’s Kashmir visit comes two days after the grand old party said that the Centre’s move to send delegations on Operation Sindoor abroad is a “meaningless optical exercise” and termed it the government’s “weapons of mass distraction.”
Rahul Gandhi’s party colleague, Shashi Tharoor, is a part of this delegation. Tharoor has recently garnered praise for speaking in support of Operation Sindoor that was launched as a retailition to April 22’s Pahalgam terror attack.
Tharoor, before leaving for the global outreach programme, recorded a video message in which he said, “I’m heading off to five countries leading an all party delegation to Guyana, Panama, Colombia, Brazil and the United States. And the reason we are going is to speak for the nation; to speak about this horrendous crisis we were subjected to, in which our country was attacked by terrorists in the cruelest possible way. We need to speak up with clarity and conviction for our country , for our response, and to give the world a message that we will not be silenced by terrorism and we don’t want the world to look away either….”
Shashi Tharoor was selected by the BJP-led Centre to lead the all-party delegation to the US and four other nations. The decision came even as the Congress veteran’s name, along with those of two other Congress MPs, did not figure in the official list of four candidates the Congress had proposed for such delegations.
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