Rahul Gandhi obtained a brand new extraordinary passport on Sunday
San Francisco:
Congress chief Rahul Gandhi arrived right here on Tuesday for a three-city US tour throughout which he’ll work together with the Indian expatriates and meet American lawmakers.
He was obtained on the airport by Indian Abroad Congress chairperson Sam Pitroda and different members of the IOC. Rahul Gandhi needed to wait for 2 hours on the airport for the immigration clearance, occasion sources mentioned.
Whereas he was ready within the queue, a number of individuals who had been travelling with him in the identical flight clicked selfies with him.
When folks requested him why he was standing within the queue, Rahul Gandhi replied, “I’m a typical man. I prefer it. I’m not an MP.” Beginning with San Francisco the place he’s scheduled to work together with college students on the prestigious Stanford College, Rahul Gandhi will deal with a press convention and have conferences with lawmakers and assume tanks in Washington DC.
The 52-year-old Congress chief can also be more likely to deal with Indian People and work together with Wall Avenue executives and college college students throughout his week-long tour of the USA. He’s slated to conclude his journey with a public gathering in New York on June 4. The interplay would happen on the Javits Heart in New York.
Final week, Indian Abroad Congress chairperson Sam Pitroda mentioned Rahul Gandhi’s go to is aimed toward selling shared values and a imaginative and prescient of “actual democracy”.
“The aim of his (Gandhi’s) journey is to attach, work together and start a brand new dialog with varied people, establishments and media, together with the Indian diaspora that’s rising in numbers in the US and overseas to advertise the shared values and imaginative and prescient of the true democracy with a give attention to freedom, inclusion, sustainability, justice, peace and alternatives world over,” Sam Pitroda mentioned in an announcement.
Rahul Gandhi obtained a brand new extraordinary passport on Sunday, two days after a Delhi court docket gave its clearance.
The previous Congress president, who had utilized for an extraordinary passport after surrendering the previous diplomatic passport issued to him when he was a member of parliament, is about to journey to San Francisco in the US on Monday night on a three-city tour.
Rahul Gandhi was disqualified as an MP in March following his conviction and two-year sentence by a Gujarat court docket in a defamation case over his Modi surname comment.
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