Rahul Gandhi in trouble; hugs wrong woman in Una
posted on Jul 27, 2016 @ 2:54PM
During his trip to Una to meet with the young Dalit men who were attacked for skinning a dead cow, the 46-year-old Vice President of the Congress hugged a woman at a local hospital. "I met the mother of the victim. She said that she sees no way forward — we are trampled in Modiji's Gujarat everyday," Rahul Gandhi had said, taking a dig at the Prime Minister. It turns out that he hugged the wrong woman. Ramaben Muchhadiya, it turns out, was not a relative of one of the victims in need of reassurance.
The 55-year-old has a criminal record that includes cases of extortion and rioting. "As a Dalit mother, I decided to visit them (the victims) in the hospital. I even took two tiffins for the victims. I got passes to enter the ward and was checking on the health of one of the victims when Rahul Gandhi walked in. At that point, I had tears in my eyes after seeing the condition of the victims; then he hugged me,'' she recounted. State Congress general secretary Hemang Vasavada has admitted that local party leaders had "planted" Ramaben to make it visually more appealing.