New Delhi: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Monday shared a video of his overnight “journey” with truck drivers and a conversation he had with them as they traveled on the Delhi-Chandigarh highway. The Congress leader traveled from Delhi to Chandigarh last Monday to listen to the problems of truck drivers. In the video, Gandhi, dressed in his trademark white T-shirt, is seen sitting inside a truck, traveling with a driver and talking to the drivers at a dhaba. He tweeted a 35-second video of himself during the journey, tweeting in Hindi, “Interesting conversation with truck drivers on a six hour Delhi-Chandigarh journey! 24 hours on the road connecting every nook and corner of India.” ,
Gandhi also shared a link to the full video of his visit on his YouTube page.
Interesting conversation with truck drivers in 6 hours Delhi-Chandigarh journey!
Spending 24 hours on the road, he connects every corner of India.
Full video on youtube:https://t.co/2O2eYxuj0P pic.twitter.com/ZBDe7UaYot— Rahul Gandhi (@RahulGandhi) May 29, 2023
Continuing his interaction with people during the Bharat Jodo Yatra, Gandhi met and spoke to a group of truck drivers at a dhaba in Murthal on NH-44, and from there traveled on a truck to Chandigarh, while On the way to Shimla, the party said.
During negotiations with the drivers, they decided to accompany Prem Rajput from Firozabad, Uttar Pradesh in his truck. A statement issued by the party said that Gandhi had a wonderful conversation with Rajput and his colleague Rakesh, making six hours pass by in no time.
The full video tells a story that three crore Indians are directly employed in the truck industry and reports suggest that there is a demand for nine lakh new truck drivers every year.
However, according to an independent study, nearly 98 per cent truck drivers, such as Prem Rajput, a Lodhi youth from UP, do not want their family members to join their profession. The same report also shows that most of them complained of harassment by the police and low and irregular income, the video said.
The party said these figures reflected the same story that the truck drivers reiterated to Gandhi, who assured them that the next Congress government would do everything possible to improve their plight. Gandhi has been regularly meeting people and listening to the voices of ordinary Indians.
From students in Old Delhi and Mukherjee Nagar and Delhi University to riding a BMTC bus and Blinkit bike in Bengaluru, he continues his process of listening to people during the Bharat Jodo Yatra, actively engaging with people from different sections of society have been intimately connected. ,