When students at a Bengaluru college left Rahul Gandhi embarrassed

Bengaluru Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday faced some embarrassing moments when a large section of his student audience at a womens college responded in resonating yes to his poser whether they thought Prime Minister Narendra Modis ambitious Swachh Bharat and Make In India campaigns were workingDuring an interaction with students of Mount Carmelcollege a leading womens college in Bengaluru the Congress vicepresident took an instant poll asking the young audience aboutthe twin flagship programmes while slamming the ModigovernmentGandhi asked the students whether Swachh Bharat AbhiyanClean India Mission was working to which most replied ina resounding yesCongress Vice President Rahul Gandhi greet students on his arrival at a interactive session with students of Mount Carmel College in Bengaluru on Wednesday PicPTIIt didnt end here as the Congress MP again asked thestudents if they thought the Make in India programme wasreally working and the students again gave the same replymaking the leader apparently uncomfortableGandhi hastened to tell the audience that he differedwith themYou might see it I dont said Gandhi who sported agrey T shirt addingAnyway I dont clearly see a visionthat the BJP is projectingThe interaction was the first in the series of Gandhisoutreach to the students across the campuses in the countryRahul later talking to reporters said the nature of theresponse of the students to his questions were not clearActually it was not clear On Swachh Bharat half theroom said nothing had happened and some said something hadhappened On Make in India I think more people said notmuch had happened some said things have happenedThe kind of response by the students to Rahuls poserled BJP to say his disconnect with the ground was exposedand shown through the mirror by the youths of the countryWhen asked about Swachh Bharaat Abhiyan and Make inIndia the youths of this country said that these concepts aremoving ahead and Rahul was shocked Why was he shockedBecause of the very fact that he has a great disconnect hedoes not know the vibrations on the ground Leave aside thecountry he cannot lead the youths of the country BJPspokesperson Sambit Patra saidHe said Rahul has no capacity to lead even the youthsnot to speak of the country His ignorance was snubbed by theyoung students he saidBJP Secretary Sidharth Nath Singh said Gandhisinteraction with students at Bengaluru should caution CongressParty and leadership that Indian youth is not willing toaccept obstructionist and negative agenda of CongressThe snap poll done by RG is a good indicator that PMModis initiative like Swachh Bharat Make in India andothers have strong support of the youth It was quiteheartening to learn that Indian youth had straight questionson why GST and other reforms are being blockedWe hope RG and Congress would learn from the interactionthat Indian Youth want Parliament to function and thereforethey would not disturb the winter session he saidCongress chief spokesperson Randeep Surjewala howeversaid Gandhi answered questions unlike Prime Minister Modi andthis is the way for the countrys leader to interactThis is the way the leader of the country shouldinteract with the young and the countrymen everywhere sometimes disagreeing with them sometimes agreeing with themand aswering their basic inquisitiveness on how Indiashould look in 5 years 10 years and 20 years Rahul ji hasanswered what no other political leader has doneSeeking to contrast Rahuls interaction with that ofPrime Minister Narendra Modi with students on November 14Surjewala alleged that a question asked by even a child wasfixed two weeks back as reported by a newspaperRahul ji does not act like that He believes indemocratic functioning of the country the right to agree ordisagree he saidAnother Congress leader Ghulam Nabi Azad dismissedsuggestions that students snubbed Rahul and claimed that onthe contrary they replied in negative thrice when asked aboutthe efficacy of Centres plansThe students responded with No thrice But they BJPfail to listen it They do not want to listen No That isintolerance he said