Former Congress chief Rahul Gandhi who has found him the subject of scrutiny for donning a T-shirt even during severe cold wave in North India, was once again spotted wearing a T-shirt at the party’s 138th Foundation Day celebrations in the national capital. “T-shirt hi chal rahi hai aur jab tak chal rahi hai chalayenge…” (Will wear it as long as I can), Rahul was heard responding to a question by a reporter at the venue. The former Congress chief was on Monday seen similarly dressed in a T-shirt as he visited the memorials of Mahatma Gandhi and several former prime ministers to pay his tributes.
The BJP’s IT head Amit Malviya took to Twitter today to share a video of the conversation and took a jibe at the Congress leader.
Earlier on Monday, Congress leader Salman Khurshid said, “Rahul Gandhi is superhuman. While we are freezing in the cold and wearing jackets, he is going out in T-Shirts (for his Bharat Jodo Yatra). He is like a yogi doing his ‘tapasya’ with focus.”
Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) General Secretary Dushyant Gautam took a potshot at Khurshid’s statement and said,” Rahul Gandhi should tell which prasad he consumes, due to which he does not feel cold. He should also give the same prasad to his sena so that they too do not have to wear clothes in the cold.” The Indian National Congress was founded on 28 December 1885, in Bombay (Mumbai) in the presence of 72 delegates at Das Tejpal Sanskrit College.
Its founder General Secretary was AO Hume and Vyomesh Chandra Banerjee was made the President.