Revealing the Person Within
The last week of February, Gandhi spent a morning fishing with fishermen in Kollam, Kerala. “He was addressing a political rally of fishermen that afternoon. He did not want to speak to them without interacting with them personally,” Manickam Tagore, the All India Congress Committee in-charge for Telangana, told The Quint.
Later that week, in a school in Kanyakumari, Gandhi accepted a push-up challenge posed by a 15-year-old girl. He also cooked with a group of philanthropists for the popular Village Cooking Show channel on Youtube.
Among senior Congress leaders, some of these personal traits – his exercise routine, for instance – are well known.
“He runs for one and a half hours every day. What he is as a person, is what you are getting to know now,” Tagore added.
Gandhi’s frank disposition seems to be intentionally crafted. Twenty nine-year-old Sebin Cyriac, who filmed Gandhi’s deep-sea dive for his vlog, said, “He gave me complete freedom…