Rahul pays first visit to Visva-Bharati University

Updated on: Tuesday, September 14, 2010

AICC General Secretary Rahul Gandhi today visited for the first time Visva-Bharati University, where three generations of his family had been chancellors.

Gandhi arrived here by car to interact with students of the University, after covering some distance in a helicopter. He met around 1,000 students at the Rabindra Bhavan and discussed several issues with them for over an hour.

He also inaugurated an exhibition 'Three Chancellors' based on the tenures of Jawaharlal Nehru, Indira Gandhi and Rajiv Gandhi as chancellors of the central university.

The exhibition, organised by the University, consists of photographs and correspondence of the three late prime ministers who visited Santiniketan as the University's chancellors.

Gandhi, clad in white kurta-pyjamas and sporting a stubble, was greeted by students of Pathabhavan school. He shook hands with a few of them at the gate of Rabindra Bhavan after alighting from his car.

The eighty-minute interaction with students from all 50 departments at Rabindra Bhavan was out of bounds for media.

Gandhi earlier visited the 'Udayan' complex to pay floral tributes at the rooms used by Rabindranath Tagore.

After the interaction, he walked back to the gate where hundreds of people, some of whom had climbed trees to be able to see the leader, hailed his presence by calling out his name and shouting slogans of 'Vande Mataram'.

Gandhi shook hands with some of them before leaving for a meeting with Congress leaders and workers at Geetanjali Bhavan here.

Rahul pays first visit to Visva-Bharati University

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