Author: Agencies
Publication: Jaibihar.com
Date: February 1, 2010
URL: http://jaibihar.com/bihar-students-force-rahul-gandhi-to-flee/201016809.html
Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi, who
is on a two-day visit to Bihar widely dubbed as an exercise to test the waters,
had to leave Darbhanga after students of Lalit Narayan Mithila University
got agitated over his Gujarat remarks.
Apparently to woo Muslim students, the son
of Congress president Sonia Gandhi reportedly said, "India can change
only if Gujarat changed first."
The students created ruckus accusing the scion
of the Nehru-Gandhi family of doing politics in university campus. They asked
him to abstain from making political utterances and that the campus was not
a platform for such meetings.
Protesting students shouted, "There is
Congress government in Maharashtra and you also have the government at Centre,
but why do you keep your mouth shut when Biharis are beaten in Bombay. Don't
ever come to Bihar to play your cheap and hypocritical politics."
Gandhi had to apologize as Congress leaders
present at the venue failed to calm down the angry students. He, finally,
had to leave the campus as students refused to listen to him.
Earlier, he arrived in Bettiah in West Champaran
district and drove to Bhitharwa Ashram from where Mahatma Gandhi had launched
the Satyagraha movement in 1917.
Gandhi, who is expected to address more youth
meetings in the state to galvanize party workers ahead of the polls, said,"
Congress will contest on its own in the Assembly elections."
Later, he will visit Bodh Gaya in Gaya district
to meet Dalit youth. In the evening, Gandhi will visit Patliputra to meet
Congress leaders at the party headquarters Sadaquat Ashram. He will interact
with girl students at a college in the city.
With the Youth Congress having launched a
membership drive on January 12, Gandhi will interact with potential candidates
at several places.
The Congress managed to win only two out of
Bihar's 40 parliamentary seats in last year's general election.