Rahul Gandhi the Vice President of the Congress party has in recent days jumped into campaign mode for the upcoming Gujarat and Himachal Pradesh assembly elections. This has meant that he has managed to generate a fair amount of controversy, first by repeatedly lying during campaign rallies and then by making sexist comments against women associated with the RSS.
He now seems to have decided to try something something different by starting to “boast” about his “personal achievements”. As per reports, Rahul Gandhi in an awards ceremony claimed that sports is a very important part of his life. His sporting indulgence reportedly includes running, swimming and even holding a black belt in Japanese martial arts form Aikido:
I exercise, run, swim & also hold a black belt in Aikido but I never speak of these in public. Sports is important in my life: Rahul Gandhi pic.twitter.com/UvZqNjQ8df
— ANI (@ANI) October 26, 2017
Such a statement sent the media and his party spokespersons in a bit of a frenzy and soon there were more reports about other sporting events in which Rahul has supposedly excelled in. As per Rahul’s Akido teacher, the Congress leader is also trained in sword fighting and Brazilian jiu-jitsu. As per the coach named Sensei Paritos Kar, Rahul along with his friends used to practice Aikido at his official residence and had successfully passed the black belt test in 2013.
Revelation of this aspect of Rahul Gandhi meant that twitter users rushed to put out witty responses:
Rahul Gandhi knows-
Sword fighting
Brazilian jiu-jitsu fighting
Aikido fightingOnly thing he doesn’t know how to fight is Elections
???pic.twitter.com/oZXsBiTdpn— Ankur Singh (@iAnkurSingh) October 28, 2017
Rahul Gandhi showing his black belt to the audience. Haters gonna say it’s Photoshop. pic.twitter.com/glv1OFFZaw
— The Skin Doctor (@thecyberbully13) October 28, 2017
Modi: B***h please….. pic.twitter.com/waq522GP3X
— PhD in Bakchodi (@Atheist_Krishna) October 26, 2017
How many young men in Amethi and Rae Bareilly have the same luxuries, Mr. Gandhi? How many Aikido centres are there?? https://t.co/Sx7o6O4gcg
— Saffron Mammoth (@SirBullyMammoth) October 27, 2017
Some also questioned the timing of such revelations by Rahul:
Er, didn’t he just do exactly that? Speak about how he ‘exercises, runs, swims n holds a black belt in Aikido’ in public?? @OfficeOfRG https://t.co/ZgUzvbAydD
— Shefali Vaidya (@ShefVaidya) October 26, 2017
Only the 76th launch of Rahul Gandhi mentions his Aikido prowess because we forgot to mention it during the last 75 launches.
— Liberal Of New Delhi (@LiberalsOfDelhi) October 28, 2017
It remains to be seen if these “fighting skills” of Rahul would help his party put up a fight during the upcoming state assembly polls or would the party instead suffer a knock out blow.
