Hailed as "Rahulda" and "Rahulji" by students, Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday received a tumultuous ovation as he paid his maiden visit to Visva Bharati university, which was founded by Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore and had three chancellors from the Nehru-Gandhi family.
A free-wheeling question-answer session with students, much like his father and former prime minister Rajiv Gandhi held, inauguration of an exhibition and brief meetings with the principals of various departments and senior officials marked Rahul Gandhi's 98-minute stay in the campus.
Kickstarting a three-day visit to West Bengal, with the agenda of reviving the Congress ahead of next year's assembly polls, the young leader got late by 40 minutes. The delay was caused because he had to take a detour via Panagarh as the helicopter allotted to him could not take off from Kolkata due to heavy rains.
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