Experience, accepting reality gives me courage: Rahul Gandhi

TIL Desk/National/New Delhi/ Congress chief Rahul Gandhi Friday said that accepting reality had given him courage to be in politics despite witnessing deaths of his father and grandmother. The Congress president’s father Rajiv Gandhi and grandmother Indira Gandhi, both former prime ministers, were assassinated in 1991 and 1984 respectively.

He was speaking at an interactive session with collegians here moderated by actor Subodh Bhave and radio jockey Malishka. Asked about having the courage and energy to be in politics despite witnessing the two deaths from close quarters, “I got courage from experience, and the things I confronted.  I got courage from accepting reality.

If you accept reality, you will get courage, and if you accept lies, you will get fear,” Gandhi said. “Reality is sometimes bitter, sometimes good. But I accept reality whether it is bitter or good. I work on that basis and this way I get courage,” he said.