NEW DELHI: Former Congress President Rahul Gandhi travelled in a truck from Delhi to Chandigarh Monday night to understand the problems faced by the truck drivers, doning his trademark white T-shit and travelling with one of the drivers and speaking to them at a dhaba.
He also stopped near a Gurdwara in Ambala City along the Ambala-Chandigarh national highway early Tuesday morning and paid obeisance there.
In a tweet, the Congress said there are about 90 lakh truck drivers on the Indian roads. They have their own problems. Rahul ji did the work of listening to their ‘Mann Ki Baat’”
Haryana Congress chief Udai Bhan said that Rahul Gandhi travelled with truck drivers and halted en route and listened to the problems faced by them.
Congress’ social media department head Supriya Shrinate shared pictures of Rahul traveling in a truck and meeting with truck drivers.
“Rahul Gandhi is a different person. Today he is committed to bridging the widening gap between the general public and the government in this country. Then in this heat, be it sitting with the truck drivers all night and listening to their problems or travelling in a truck. In such a few people, the hope of a better future has arisen!” she said in a tweet in Hindi.
Congress sources said Rahul was on his way to Shimla to spend some time with his mother Sonia Gandhi and on the way he decided to listen to the problems of truck drivers.
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