Rahul Gandhi to interact with Mount Carmel College students in Bengaluru today
Bengaluru: Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi will visit the prestigious Mount Carmel College in the city to interact with college students on Wednesday.
Speaking to reporters at the Karnataka Pradesh Congress Committee office here, state Congress president Dr G. Parameshwar said, “Mr Gandhi is visiting this prestigious college after he was invited by the students union as well as the college management. This programme is purely private, he will be interacting with students for about two hours and return to Delhi by the evening.”
According to him, since this is a private programme, no party leader except CM Siddaramaiah and himself will be attending the event and both will sit in the visitors section.
“Mr Gandhi will be arriving in Bengaluru by the 8:45 am flight from Delhi. Most senior leaders will meet him at BIAL. He will head to Kumara Krupa guest house, where he will stay for about an hour and then go straight to Mount Carmel College,” he said. Dr Parameshwar said that due to SPG norms, the media would not be able to cover this event except Delhi based news agency ANI whose representative will be accompanying Mr Gandhi to cover the event. “Mr Gandhi may address the local media soon after his event is over, outside Mount Carmel college,” Dr. Parameshwar said.
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Siddaramaiah, ministers worried lot!
With Congress party vice-president Rahul Gandhi set to arrive in the city, several ministers and Chief Minister Siddaramaiah are reportedly a worried lot. According to a few leaders, Mr Gandhi is likely to be grilled by Mount Carmel College students on issues such as the garbage problem, potholes and low standard of road work that have led to several accidents in the last few months.
Speaking to Deccan Chronicle, a senior leader of the Congress party disclosed that students are worst affected due to the poor road work in the city. “In the last 15 days many of these youngsters have met with accidents which have not been reported as these were minor accidents,” the source said.
“Apart from this, most students’ vehicles have hit major craters due to which they are regularly visiting repair shops. This has affected students a lot, as a result, they are likely to raise these issues which might result in an eye-opener for Mr Gandhi on the situation in the city,” the source added.
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