Setting aside all rumour mills doubting Congress chief Rahul Gandhi’s Kailash Mansarovar Yatra, his party on Friday posted images of his visit and also shared his fitness data with other details of the Gandhi scion’s trek to the abode of Lord Shiva.
“Leaving all the haters behind, Congress president Rahul Gandhi sets the pace during his Kailash Yatra. Can you keep up?,” the Congress said on its official Twitter handle. The party also posted a picture of a smiling Rahul posing in front of the Mount Kailash, considered the abode of Lord Shiva, on Twitter along with details of his trekking details compiled by popular fitness mobile app ‘fitbit’.
The fitbit data showed Rahul having travelled 46,433 steps, 203 floors, 34.31 kms over 463 minutes, while burning 4,466 calories. He left the national Capital on August 31 and expected to be back from his Yatra by end of this week.
The Congress chief also tweeted a video of the hills on his official Twitter handle and said, “Shiva is the Universe”. On Thursday as well, he had posted a picture of Mount Kailash, saying, “It is so humbling to be walking in the shadow of this giant.”
He had earlier put out pictures of the “tranquil and calm” waters of the lake and said there “is no hatred here”. “The waters of lake Mansarovar are so gentle, tranquil and calm. They give everything and lose nothing. Anyone can drink from them. There is no hatred here. This is why we worship these waters in India,” he had said on Twitter. The 48-year-old leader is undertaking the Kailash Mansarovar Yatra in accordance with a wish he expressed in April when his plane plunged hundreds of feet during the campaign for the Karnataka polls.
On April 26, the plane carrying the Congress chief and some others from Delhi to Hubballi airport in Karnataka developed a technical problem and tilted heavily on the left side. The plane dipped steeply with violent shuddering, but soon recovered and landed safely. Three days later he announced during a rally that he wanted to undertake the arduous annual pilgrimage to Mount Kailash, which is considered the abode of Lord Shiva in Hindu mythology and is in the Tibetan Himalayas.