Rahul Gandhi Spends 90 Minutes At Don Bosco Institute, Guwahati

(July 23, 2009) Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi on a one-day visit to Northeast India took time out to interact with the NE youth at Don Bosco Institute, Guwahati. This is his second visit to the Institute in five years after his previous late night visit on November 14, 2004. “India is yours and you are Indians... never feel isolated. Travel the country for exposure,” Gandhi told a large group of students at the Don Bosco Institute in Assam’s state capital. “Rahul Gandhi interacted with the students for about 90 minutes and drove home two pertinent points – that people of the Northeast should not feel alienated and that people from this region should go outside and get maximum exposure,” said director of the Institute, Father V.M. Thomas. Gandhi surprised and challenged students. He began his visit to the training halls and computer labs of the institute and minutely questioned the students about the training they were receiving. He surprised the students with his sincere and personal interest in their well being. In his address to the assembly of over 500 students and invitees, he lauded the training imparted by the institute and spoke of the institute as being to second to none in the country. He then spent about an hour listening to and answering the questions of the students of Don Bosco Institute and Assam Institute of Management.