Rahul Gandhi gave the police a slip for the second time in three nights to be in the company of tribals in a Orissa village.
GANJAM (Orissa): Rahul Gandhi gave the police a slip for the second time in three nights to be in the company of tribals in a Orissa village that has spearheaded successful community initiatives.
Rahul's sudden detours have however not gone well with the state police and home department who have voiced their dismay at being kept in dark about his movements.
The Congress general secretary last night went to Tanmana village in Ganjam district, a model village in the state.
Tanmana, a village of 82 households and almost all below poverty line, was in the news recently for total sanitation and ban on liquor through community initiatives.
Gandhi had dinner with villagers and spent the entire night with one of the families here and heard the success story of community participation.
The state Congress unit, which had arranged for Gandhi's stay in a beach resort near the famous Gopalpur seaside, was also taken by surprise at his decision to spend Sunday night in a rural hamlet.
On Friday, he gave police some anxious moments when he visited a tribal hamlet, a hotbed of naxal activity, in the middle of the night keeping local authorities in the dark. He spent four hours with a tribal family and dined with them.
The 37-year-old Congress leader's "unplanned movements" have evoked strong objections from the Orissa police. Gandhi has got cover of the elite Special Protection Group(SPG).
According to sources, the top brass of the state police and the Orissa Home Department are contemplating to take up the matter of Rahul's "night long visits" with the Union Home Ministry.
"It is unfortunate that a VVIP leaves the guest house to an undisclosed location without any information," a highly placed police source said.
The local and the national media also waited in vain on Sunday as they positioned themselves in large numbers on the Gopalpur beach to cover the visit of the scion of the Gandhi family.
Before visiting Tanmana, Rahul halted at Kankiya village en route and spent some time last evening with students of a residential tribal school.
Rajiv Gandhi foundation runs a library in the school.
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