Rahul Gandhi | On his own track

On August 22, the AISSMS College Ground in Pune was packed with thousands of young women for the fourth edition of Rahul Gandhi’s ‘Chhatron ki Goonj’, the Congress’s nationwide student outreach campaign. Dressed unusually in a neon yellow linen shirt, Rahul turned the women-only gathering into a spirited attack on patriarchy. He invoked the Manusmriti, attacked Prime Minister Narendra Modi over his “cultural shock” at women protesters using abusive language and told the cheering audience, “Together, we need to finish this patriarchy. Smash the patriarchy.”