On Friday, June 23, RJD President Lalu Prasad Yadav was seen giving a piece of parental advice to Congress senior leader Rahul Gandhi. Addressing a joint press conference of the Opposition at Patna, Lalu urged the 53-year-old Congress leader to get married soon.
“Shaadi kariye, hum log baraati chalenge (Get married, we would like to be a part of your wedding procession),” said Lalu Yadav, who was attending a political meeting after a long time, drawing a smile from the Congress leader.
The Congress leader, 53, gamely replied:” Now, that you have said it, it will happen.”
“Shaadi karna chahiye. There’s still time,” said the senior leader, adding that “your mummy told me that you don’t listen to her”.
“Pucca kariye, baat maaniye (Confirm it now. Listen to us),” said Lalu Yadav.
In January, Rahul Gandhi in an interview to Curly Tales during his Bharat Jodo Yatra said he will marry “when the right girl comes along”.
Asked whether he had a “checklist”, he said: “No, just a loving person, who’s intelligent.”
In December, Mr Gandhi had said in an interview to a YouTube channel that he would like his partner to have the qualities of his mother Sonia Gandhi and former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, his grandmother.