Giving the usual pomp outside Congress headquarters a miss, the Youth Congress celebrated Rahul Gandhi’s 46th birthday by reaching out to poor students in Delhi and Mumbai, and comforting cancer patients.

In Delhi, Youth Congress members offered to pay the annual fees for 31 students of Delhi University who were on the verge of dropping out in their second year of graduation due to financial hardship.

“Whenever and wherever anyone has required any kind of support, we have been there to help,” said Youth Congress chief Amarinder Singh Raja.

The Youth Congress spent Rahul’s 46th birthday reaching out to poor students and comforting cancer patients

The Youth Congress activists also donated a water cooler and paid the monthly grocery bills of children at the Kasturba Gandhi National Memorial Trust, Alipur.

In Mumbai, city Congress chief Sanjay Nirupam led party workers to Bandra Hospital to spend time with cancer patients and distributed fruits and food items among them.

Later, party workers gave out notebooks to deprived children from the Borivali area of the city.

In the morning, Rahul met senior leaders at his residence and later went to the party headquarters to interact with workers, who had gathered to wish him well.