Rahul Gandhi interacting with women students in Kashmir.
When will Rahul Gandhi get married? The question, like clockwork, came up again. This time in Srinagar. And the questioners were female students.
Over the years, answers have ranged from “when the right girl comes along” to “I'm married at a party”, to “totally caught up in party activities”.
Dressed in his trademark white T-shirt, the Congress leader and the students discussed politics, education, employment and of course marriage.
What do you think about marriage, a student asked the Congress leader.
“I've done away with this pressure for 20-30 years,” the 54-year-old leader, who was sitting around a table with students in the open field, said with a big smile on his face. “But it's a good thing”, he added.
You plan to get married, another student asked a follow-up question.
“Yeah, yeah, I mean, I don't plan it. But if it happens…,” he said.
Please do and invite us too, request came.
“I will. I will,” he promised.
Kashmiri women have strength, resilience, wisdom and a lot to say.
But are we giving them a chance to make their voices heard? pic.twitter.com/11Te8MM5fH
— Rahul Gandhi (@RahulGandhi) August 26, 2024
Earlier this year, the question came up during a rally in the Rae Bareli parliamentary constituency for the first time since his nomination.
Priyanka Gandhi, who was present at the gathering, asked him to answer a question that someone in the crowd asked.
He asked what is the question?
“When will you get married?”
Rahul Gandhi assured that it will now have to happen soon. “Now you have to hurry (Will have to do it soon),” he said in Hindi.
In June last year, Lalu Yadav had insisted on marrying Rahul Gandhi during a large opposition rally in Patna.
“Get married, we will go to the party. (Get married, we would like to be a part of your wedding procession), said Lalu Yadav.
The Congress leader replied wittily: “Now, what you have said will happen.”
Last October, Rahul Gandhi was also asked the same question while talking to students of Jaipur's Maharani College.
“You are so smart and good looking… why haven't you thought about marriage?” A woman asked the 53-year-old former Congress president.
“Because I am completely engrossed in my work and the Congress Party,” was the quick reply.