happy birthday, rahul.
it's strange how a person you've never met can end up feeling so familiar
like finding the same moon in different cities.
hope life gives you many reasons to smile this year.🤍
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(a small edit.
perhaps my first, perhaps my last, but made with sincerity♡)
I visited the southernmost tip of India.
I stood at Indira Point. I walked under trees that have stood for centuries. I dove into coral reefs among the most vibrant on earth.
And I sat with the people who live there. Tribal communities, whose land is being taken away by violating the Forest Rights Act. Settlers, many of them former soldiers, placed on these islands by the Indian government, who aren’t getting fair compensation.
The Modi government and BJP tells you Great Nicobar Project is about defence. It is not.
Expand INS Baaz - we will back the government fully. The Navy has been asking for expansion for five years - it has been ignored.
They tell you it is about a transhipment port. It is not. India is already building one in Kerala, which is on the mainland.
What it actually is: 1.5 crore trees felled. Coral reefs erased from official maps. Soldiers and tribals displaced - so one businessman can build hotels and casinos on India’s most irreplaceable ecological land.
Every young Indian I have spoken to understands this. You know that no amount of profit is worth destroying what can never be recovered.
I stand for ecologically balanced development. These islands can be the most extraordinary sustainable destination the world has ever seen. That is the India worth fighting for.
#GreenOverGreed
#NicobarMatters
#WorldEnvironmentDay
Great grandfather: Prime Minister Grandmother: Prime Minister Father: Prime Minister Mother: Won LS 2004 but denied becoming PM
And he is a 5-time MP and now the LoP.
But Godi media will still say Rahul Gandhi is “hungry for power” 👏
Everyone asked how RG looked?
When he entered the room, that was the moment of awestruckness. He carries an aura. He was obviously more huge in build than all of us. He was a glowing angel with shiny brown eyes and a lot of energy.