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Current rulers should learn from Gandhi: Rahul
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Monday unveiled a statue of Mahatma Gandhi at Gandhi park in Thrissur, Kerala, and recalled his teachings and said it is less about his form and more about the way he lived his life
On a three-day visit to his constituency in Wayanad in north Kerala, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Monday said whatever Mahathma Gandhi said, he put it into action, and present-day rulers will have to take many lessons from his teachings and actions.
“The powerful thing about Gandhi Ji was that whatever he said he put it into action. If he said India should be tolerant then he behaved in a tolerant way. He said India should be a secular country, and he behaved in a mostly secular manner. He had Gita, Bible, Quran and Guru Granth Sahib as his guide,” he said while unveiling the statue of Mahatma Gandhi in Mananthawady.
Later, he had a Sadya (rice on a plantain leaf with many traditional curries) with tribal students from the district, who cracked the common law admission test. The district was in the news in August first week after nine students cleared the CLAT, seven of them from the Kattunayakkan community, most backward and vulnerable among the district population.
“Today, we have many people who say the country should be fair and they treat others unfairly. They say they want a secular nation, but they view religions differently. For me, the statue is much more about the practice than it is about the personality,” he said without taking any names.
On his three-day visit (Aug 16-18), he will be attending many programmes, including the inauguration of two drinking water projects. Wayanad turned the first district in the country to vaccinate nearly 100 per cent of the eligible population -- young collector Adeela Abdulla, who is also a medical doctor and a team of committed health officials were lauded by many. Gandhi also called on the collector.
