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.