Cambridge: Rahul Gandhi in new look ahead of Cambridge University lecture | India News

NEW DELHI: Rahul Gandhi has donned multiple looks in the last few months. After sporting a beard and a ruffled-hair look for months, the Congress leader was seen in a new look – short hair, trimmed beard and a suit as he reached UK to deliver a lecture at Cambridge University.

When Bharat Jodo Yatra began in Kanyakumari in September 2022, Rahul emerged with a clean look but let his hair and beard grow as the march progressed towards Kashmir, covering some 4,000 km in over four months.

The former Congress president arrived in London on Tuesday to kick off his week-long tour with an address at the University of Cambridge and also hold discussions with Indian diaspora groups. Rahul, who is a Visiting Fellow of the Cambridge Judge Business School (Cambridge JBS), will deliver a student-only lecture at the university on the subject of “Learning to Listen in the 21st Century’.

The business school has also indicated Gandhi’s plans to hold “closed-door sessions” on ‘Big Data and Democracy’ and ‘India-China relations’ with Professor Shruti Kapilaan Indian-origin Fellow, Tutor and Director of Studies at the university’s Corpus Christi College and Co-Director of the Global Humanities Initiative.
“Our programme is pleased to welcome India’s leading Opposition leader and MP Rahul Gandhi of the Indian National Congress,” Cambridge JBS tweeted on Tuesday. “He will speak today as a visiting fellow on the topic of ‘Learning to Listen in the 21st Century.

Gandhi had earlier tweeted, “Looking forward to visiting my alma mater Cambridge University and delivering a lecture at Cambridge. Happy to engage with some of the brightest minds in various domains, including geopolitics, international relations, big data and democracy.”

The 52-year-old Congress leader last addressed the University of Cambridge at an event at Corpus Christi College entitled ‘India at 75′ during a visit to the UK in May last year.
During his current UK tour, he is scheduled to interact with representatives of the Indian Overseas Congress (IOC) UK chapter and also address an “Indian Diaspora Conference” planned over the weekend here in London. IOC UK said it is looking forward to welcoming the party leader and updating him on its activities, including a Bharat Jodo Yatra held in London last year in solidarity with the yatra led by Rahul across India.

Gandhi’s visit to the UK comes days after the Congress’ 85th plenary session in Raipur in Chhattisgarh, where the party brainstormed its strategy for the 2024 general elections and deliberated on several internal issues.