Rahul's date with history in Kabul 31.08.2005 It was Rahul Gandhi's special interest in Afghanistan that got him an invitation to accompany Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on his historic trip to Kabul. "Once during a casual conversation Rahul said that he was interested in Afghanistan. I told him that I was going to Kabul soon and asked him to join me," Manmohan Singh said in reply to a question at a press conference in the Presidential palace before leaving for New Delhi. Dressed smartly in a black suit with a maroon tie, the young Congress MP sat quietly through all the ceremonies in the trip, soaking in a defining moment in Afghanistan's democratic journey. "I am happy to be in Afghanistan," the reclusive young man, often referred as Prime Minister-in-waiting, said to a television channel that managed to corner him for a sound-byte. When pestered for quotes by hordes of Indian journalists who had descended here to cover his first tryst with international diplomacy, he gently chided some of them for "making a mountain of a molehill" of his visit. According to some local wags, Gandhi and Prince Mustafa, great grandson of Zahir Shah, the nonagenarian former King, met under the 300-year-old chinar tree in the Presidential palace and talked about democracy, the centuries-old camaraderie between Indians and Afghans and yes, preserving wildlife and environment - a passion that Gandhi shares with his Afghan dynasts. But this was not officially confirmed. << | >> |
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