Youths are the country’s greatest strength says Rahul Gandhi at ‘Chhatron Ki Goonj’

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Saturday said India's youths are the country's greatest strength as he spoke about their "dard (pain), data, and daulat (wealth)" to attack the BJP and the RSS (Source: Photo by Vishal Srivastava)

Addressing the ‘Chhatron Ki Goonj’ programme at KP Ground, he said that India’s youth are the country’s power and pride (Source: Photo by Vishal Srivastava)

In his speech, Gandhi, who wore a half-sleeve pink shirt, throwing an uncharacteristic dash of colour against his usual white, touched upon several topics, from AI and data gathering to the BJP-RSS combine, which he accused of holding sway over young people's minds (Source: Photo by Vishal Srivastava)

The Leader of the Opposition in Lok Sabha said India has a big chunk of young population and the data it generates would be the key driver of the country's economy in the 21st century (Source: Photo by Vishal Srivastava)

Gandhi said that AI depends on data generated by people, and while this data belongs to the country's youth, its economic benefits are going to large corporations (Source: Photo by Vishal Srivastava)

"You are told to watch as many reels as you want, send as many WhatsApp messages as you want and watch or make as many Instagram reels as you want, but this is the addiction of the 21st century," he said (Source: Photo by Vishal Srivastava)

Gandhi pointed at images of industrialist Gautam Adani, Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Union Home Minister Amit Shah, and RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat behind him on a screen, and said, "Data is yours, pain is yours, but wealth is theirs? This is the system" (Source: Photo by Vishal Srivastava)

Gandhi also raised his concerns about the debasement of educational credentials in the country. He alleged that students are being trapped between expensive education, unemployment, and irregularities in the way exams are conducted (Source: Photo by Vishal Srivastava)

Students Avinash and Ajay shared their experiences of preparing for recruitment exams and how they faced delays and other irregularities (Source: Photo by Vishal Srivastava)

Gandhi paid his homage to the students for leading several protests, one of which led to the resignation of ex-education minister Dharmendra Pradhan (Source: Photo by Vishal Srivastava)