Watch: In Malegaon, Rahul Gandhi invites New Era Schoolgirls for live Karate demo
Senior Congress leader Rahul Gandhi, who was in Malegaon leading the Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra Wednesday March 13, 2024, invited the New Era School girl students for a live Karate demonstration. Read More
[Rahul Gandhi in a live Karate Sssion with the girl students of New Era English Medium School in Malegaon (Photo: ummid.com)]
Malegaon: Senior Congress leader Rahul Gandhi, who was in Malegaon leading the Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra Wednesday March 13, 2024, invited the New Era School girl students for a live Karate demonstration.
Aboard an open jeep, Rahul Gandhi was addressing the cheering crowd of Malegaon that waited for hours in the sizzling heat despite observing Ramadan fast.
Suddenly, the girl students of the New Era English Medium School shouted, ‘Rahul Ji Hamari Taraf, Rahul Ji Hamari Taraf’ (Rahul sir, attention please).
The repeated yells of the girls in Karate robes and headscarves caught Rahul’s attention. He stopped his speech mid-way, looked at the girls and said, “Oh, Karate khelte ho?” and asked his security staff to bring them closer to his jeep.
After completing his speech, Rahul Gandhi invited 03 girl students, including 8-yr-old Yashfeen Shaban Shah of Zainab English Medium School, on the bonnet of the open jeep and asked them to give him punches and kicks.
Rahul Gandhi, who is known to have an inclination towards combat sports, is himself trained in Aikido, a modern Japanese Martial Art form. Impressed with the enthusiastic demonstration of martial art skills by the girl students, Rahul gave them chocolates to show his appreciation.
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Rahul promises to revive Textile Schemes
Earlier, Rahul Gandhi arrived in the Muslim dominated City known for Textile and Power loom Industry, one hour behind the announced schedule. The delay led to cancellation of some of the appointments, including meeting with the community and local political leaders.
Nonetheless, Rahul Gandhi delivered a fiery speech that was received by frequent cheers and applauds.
Rahul started his address extending Ramadan greetings, a move seen as an attempt to give Muslim tone to his 66-day Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra which started from Manipur and henceforth missed direct reference to Muslims or Muslim customs.
“Ramadan Mubarak”, Rahul Gandhi said as the Malegaonians, majority of them youngsters, responded with a huge round of applause.
After extending Ramadan greetings, Rahul quickly turned to the problems faced by the textiles and powerlooms - another issues close to the heart of the local people.
“The local textile industry is dying because of the Narendra Modi government’s anti-poor policies. The government is devising all its policies to help few of its corporate friends”, he said.
“The government imposed GST and announced demonization which resulted in the collapse of the Textile Industry, and other small and medium groups”, he said.
“Your livelihood is being targeted so as to make these corporate honchos flourish”, Rahul Gandhi said.
“Let our government come to power again, we will re-start all subsidies and support measures for the Textile Industry that were started by our government but Modi stopped them to help his friend Adani”, Rahul said as the crowd went berserk.
“The weavers are also suffering because of the skyrocketing Electricity Tariff. Our government will put a stop on this and ensure subsidized power supply”, he said.
The Ramadan greeting and weavers' related issues also gave some peace to the critics who accused the Congress and Rahul of ignoring the Muslims in his speeches.
'1 lakh to women'
Rahul Gandhi also reiterated the Congress’ commitment to transfer 1 lakh rupees in the accounts of the women of the country.
In his signature style, Rahul called a small girl aboard his open jeep, gave her the microphone and asked her to repeat with him.
“If Modi can give crores of rupees to his corporate friends. If Modi can waive off crores of rupees taken by his friends in loans. We can of course also help women folk of the country with a fund of 1 lakh rupees which will be transferred to their accounts directly”, Rahul said and the local girl repeated with him.
Before reiterating the promise he had made in Dhule few hours ago, Rahul said he saw a very few women coming here.
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The crowd however asked him to look above where hundreds of women were standing on each floors of the multi-storey Apna Shopping Market of the busy Old Agra Road.
A huge number of people were also standing on the two sides of the Old Agra Road who greeted Rahul Gandhi's speech with frequent cheers.
‘No one can change constitution’
In his speech at Malegaon, Rahul Gandhi accused the Modi government of trying to change the constitution.
“You must have hear one of the BJP MP vowing to change the Constitution. It is the BJP style. It asks someone to raise the controversial issues and then see the reaction", Rahul said.
"But I am telling you today. Who is Narendra Modi, no power in the world can change the Constitution of India”, he added.
During his speech, Rahul also spoke about the rampant unemployment, government jobs, Agniveer Yojna and Agnipath Scheme, Electronic Voting Machine (EVM), the recent resignation of Election Commissioner Arun Goel and othe policy matters.
Rahul Gandhi is scheduled to camp near Umrana Village - some 15 kms from Malegaon for the night. From here he will move to onion hub Pimpalgaon then to Nashik and finally to Mumbai where the yatra will come to end.
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