Young fan follows Rahul barefooted

Sanjiv Kumar Bakshi

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Hoshiarpur, May 13

A youth in his early 20s, barefooted, clad in shiny Tricolour clothes having Congress symbol printed on it and waving a huge Congress flag was today’s attraction at the Rahul Gandhi’s rally at the Roshan ground here.

Speaking in Haryanvi accent, he was asking people to vote to make Rahul Gandhi Prime Minister and was walking briskly barefooted on the road in scorching heat. Wearing a saffron turban and a shiny Tricolour kurta having the Congress’ election symbol printed on it, he walked waving a huge 10-ft-long Congress flag. “I have been following Rahul ji for eight years. I always try to be there, wherever he goes in India and he, too, showers a lot of love on me,” Pandit Dinesh Sharma told The Tribune. “I am the biggest fan of Rahul and I am very much proud of it,” he says.

“I want him to be the Prime Minister of India one day and for it I have pledged to stay barefooted till he becomes the PM. Being a common man this is the little I can do for him and this makes people realise my devotion towards Rahul Gandhi. I will stop walking barefoot the day he becomes the Prime Minister,” says Pandit who’s a law graduate and the eldest of four siblings. His father is a farmer at Kakrod village of Jind district in Haryana. He was in Class XI when he first met Rahul Gandhi in Uttar Pradesh in 2011 and his family supports him in his passion of following Rahul Gandhi.

“I have toured most of the states in India following Rahul ji and its difficult now to recall the number of such tours. While pursuing his five-year law degree course, he had been travelling and following Rahul Gandhi wherever goes.