From shampoo chair to inverter set: Rahul Gandhi sends gift to Raebareli barber shop he visited months ago

Three months after visiting a barber's shop in his Lok Sabha constituency Raebareli, senior Congress leader Rahul Gandhi has sent a gift to him, reported PTI on 13 September.

During his Lok Sabha campaigning, Rahul Gandhi got his beard and hair trimmed at the barber shop. Upon receiving the gift, barber Mithun expressed happiness.

On 13 May, the Leader of the Opposition in the Lok Sabha and Congress MP from the Rae Bareli parliamentary seat attended a public meeting in Lalganj. While leaving the place, Rahul Gandhi stopped at barber Mithun's shop in Brijendra Nagar and got his beard trimmed.

Mithun on Friday said that Rahul Gandhi had talked to him for a long time.

"After more than three months, suddenly on Thursday, a vehicle stopped near my shop. Two people unloaded two chairs, a shampoo chair, inverter set, etc. from that vehicle and handed them over," PTI quoted Mithun as saying.

Mithun was told that these goods were sent by Rahul Gandhi, a party office bearer said, and added that Mithun was happy at this and expressed gratitude towards Gandhi.

Spokesperson of UP Congress Anshu Awasthi said, "Rahul Gandhi always meets different sections of the people, understands their needs and their work on the ground. During the Lok Sabha elections, Rahul Gandhi got his hair and beard trimmed at Mithun's salon in Lalganj, Raebareli."

"Rahul Gandhi sent Mithun the barber the things he needed for his work, including a shampoo chair, two hair-cutting chairs and an inverter battery. He does this work, so that people in politics, the social sector and Congress leaders and workers also promote this kind of support and encouragement. It is a matter of pride for us," Awasthi said.

District Congress unit's president of Raebareli, Pankaj Tiwari said, “The information about the goods being sent by the MP was received through social media. If the goods have arrived, then it is a very good thing.”

Previous act of Rahul?

On 26 July, Rahul Gandhi had made an unscheduled surprise visit to Ram Chet's shop in Vidhayak Nagar on the outskirts of Sultanpur, while he was on his way back to Lucknow from Sultanpur after appearing in a district court in connection with a defamation case.

He also made a brief halt at his shop, cobbler Ram Chet, where, on 27 July, the Congress leader gave him a sewing machine.

With agency inputs.