After Kalawati, Sunita’s plight moves Rahul Gandhi

GAURIGANJ (Amethi): AICC general secretary Rahul Gandhi, who drew the nation's attention to the plight of a woman called Kalawati recounting her tale in parliament, on Monday shared with the people of his constituency the abject poverty of yet another woman named Sunita from Amethi.

Recalling how several members of the woman's family, including children, shivered with cold as she could not afford giving warm clothes to all of them, the scion of the Gandhi family said he dreams of a world which did not have a home as poor as Sunita's.

“I was surprised to see that while the elders of the family were properly clad in warm clothes, the young ones comprising even a seven-year-old girl were bereft of clothing that could keep the cold away," Rahul said at the launch of the Priyadarshini pilot project here.

“I was surprised when told that the elders could provide warm clothes to either themselves or the children. And since elders had to earn a living and provide food to the young ones they were wearing warm clothes," the young Congress leader added.