Congress President Rahul Gandhi interacting with Delhi University students. | Photo Credit: PTI

New Delhi: Congress president Rahul Gandhi is not leaving any stone unturned to topple the Bharatiya Janata Party at the Centre. From organising rallies across the country to holding interactions with people from all walks of life, the resurgent Congress party under the Gandhi scion’s leadership is turning heads.

In a recent development, during one of his interaction with college students, Gandhi was requested by some to print the party’s manifesto for the upcoming 2019 Lok Sabha elections in Braille to reach out to the visually-impaired population in India. If rumour mills are to be believed, Gandhi might consider the suggestion, the Hindustan Times reported.

Congress could become the first political party to release its election manifesto in Braille if the proposal is considered. The recommendation came during his exchange of ideas with a bunch of Delhi University students at a café in New Delhi’s Lodhi Colony area on Friday, the HT report said.

The dialogue was part of the party’s youth reach campaign called ‘Apni baat, Rahul ke saath’ through which the Congress president would interact with students across the country on issues pertaining to national interest.

From discussing gender-neutral toilets to Braille manifesto to inequality in educational institutions to discrimination based on caste, Gandhi had a heart-to-heart interaction with the youth.

The student who proposed the idea of a Braille manifesto told Hindustan Times that she found Gandhi ‘humble and friendly’ and not the ‘I know everything’ sort of a person.

“I raised a concern that the Congress does not publish its manifesto in Braille… He (Gandhi) assured me that Congress will do so in the upcoming elections,” said Pratistha Deveshwar, a student of Delhi’s Lady Shri Ram college, told HT, adding that she felt like a friend with him and such dialogues prove an ice-breaker between big politicians and the common mass.