Congress leader Rahul Gandhi surprised party workers as well as the district police authorities here on Tuesday when he dropped in to pay homage to former Chief Minister Oommen Chandy at a condolence meeting organised by the District Congress Committee (DCC).
Mr. Gandhi, who was under treatment at Kottakkal Arya Vaidya Sala, was not expected at the condolence meeting, in which All India Congress Committee general secretary K.C. Venugopal, Indian Union Muslim League State president Syed Sadikali Shihab Thangal, national general secretary P.K. Kunhalikutty, MLA, and Oommen Chandy’s son Chandy Oommen were the chief guests.
However, Mr. Gandhi dropped in unexpectedly at the meeting and said that Chandy was a leader who emerged from the State’s people like a wave that emerges from the ocean.
