New Delhi: Congress General Secretary and Amethi MP Rahul Gandhi turned 40 on Saturday. Born on June 19, 1970, Rahul is second time MP from Amethi and is projected by the party as the future leader and potential prime minister. Rahul is looking after party affairs
as General Secretary in charge of the National Student's Union of India (NSUI) and the
Youth Congress. The NSUI and the Youth Congress activists have organized several
programmes to celebrate Rahul's birthday throughout the country.
Congress workers celebrated the day by dancing to the drumbeats, raising slogans and
bursting firecrackers outside their headquarters here. Although Gandhi was not in town,
it did not dampen the spirits of the workers, as they expressed their desire to
see him as the next Prime Minister of the country. "Rahal Gandhi has turned 40
today. Today he has completed 1000 days in Congress party and he has done so much
work for the country in these 1000 days, which no other politician can do in even
40,000 days," said Ashok Randhava, a supporter. "He thinks for the welfare of
the country. He understands the country and the people living here. He is visiting
every state and if he wishes he can be the Prime Minister, but he is understanding
the country first and then he will think of becoming the Prime Minister." "We
give our blessings to him so that he becomes the Prime Minister soon," he added.
Activists of Youth Congress organized programmes all over the country to celebrate
his birthday. Meanwhile, in Jaipur, one of his supporters, Vijesh Saini, presented
a full length Rahul Chalisa written on the pattern of Hanuman Chalisa to Rahul
Gandhi. "I have written a chalisa, which consists of all the four religions. Rahul
Gandhi has completed four decades so I have decided to give him this chalisa on
all the four religions," Saini said. "Since Rahul has turned 40 years, I've written
40 chaupai (Hindi verse). This chalisa contains all the good verses of the four
religions," he added. Saini, an engineer by profession, is a big fan of the Gandhi
family and has written many books and poems on Indira Gandhi, Rajeev Gandhi, Sonia
