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During Bharat Jodo Yatra, terrorists saw me and I saw them, but...: Rahul Gandhi at Cambridge

Source: India Today - Mausami Singh Mar-03-2023 3 min read

Speaking at Cambridge University, Rahul Gandhi said he once faced terrorists in Kashmir, while the Bharat Jodo Yatra was underway in the Union Territory. He said an unknown man approached him and pointed towards a group of people, revealing they were all terrorists.

Speaking at Cambridge University, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi recalled how he once faced terrorists when the Congress-led Bharat Jodo Yatra had entered Jammu and Kashmir. Gandhi said the security forces in Kashmir had asked him not to walk in the region as there was a fear of terror attacks.

However, the Congress MP chose to continue with the yatra.

Rahul Gandhi said, "I talked to my people and told them that I wanted to continue the walk. We continued walking when an unknown man approached me. He told me he wanted to talk to me."

Further speaking, Rahul Gandhi said the man asked him if the Congress leaders had really come to the Union Territory to listen to the woes of the people.

Moments later, the man pointed towards some nearby people and revealed they were all terrorists, Rahul Gandhi said.

"I thought I was in trouble because in that situation terrorists would kill me. But they did not do anything because this is the power of listening," Rahul Gandhi said.

Rahul Gandhi arrived in the UK on Tuesday to kick off his week-long tour with an address at the University of Cambridge. He also held discussions with Indian diaspora groups there.

During his lecture, Rahul Gandhi focussed at the prestigious University of Cambridge on the "art of listening" and called for new thinking to promote a democratic environment globally, as opposed to a coercive one.

Referencing a decline in manufacturing in democratic countries such as India and the US in recent years as production shifted to China, Gandhi said the shift had produced mass inequality and anger which needed urgent attention and dialogue.