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<strong>September</strong> 15, <strong>2017</strong> | www.goantimes.titosgoa.com | 12 pages<br />

Rahul Gandhi Will Go On A 'Study<br />

Tour' Of The World To Prepare<br />

For A 2019 Face-Off With Modi<br />

Congress party's vice president<br />

and heir apparent Rahul Gandhi is<br />

reportedly being sent for study tours<br />

around the world in preparation for<br />

the 2019 national elections in India.<br />

"These study tours are set to benefit<br />

him, the Congress party as well as this<br />

nation at large," said CP Joshi, AICC<br />

general secretary told India Today.<br />

"With exposure to new technology, he<br />

will be able to influence new policy."<br />

"Rahul wants to get new thinking and<br />

ideas to this country."<br />

Joshi told the newspaper that other<br />

political leaders "obsess over the past",<br />

but Gandhi was thinking about the<br />

future, and this tours were meant to<br />

enhance his knowledge of what India<br />

could learn from other countries.<br />

Gandhi visited Norway last month,<br />

where he met with entrepreneurs and<br />

dignitaries, and visited the world's<br />

largest facility for combating climate<br />

change. He is expected to travel to the<br />

Silicon Valley in US later this month<br />

to "expand his thoughts on artificial<br />

intelligence".<br />

Joshi claimed that these visits were<br />

part of a plan to prepare Gandhi for<br />

the next general elections. Calling<br />

the PM's decision to demonetise large<br />

currency notes in India last year<br />

"ill-informed policy-making", Joshi<br />

claimed that India's foreign policy was<br />

"in shambles".<br />

The next Indian general elections will<br />

take place in 2019. Gandhi is expected<br />

to be projected as the Congress party's<br />

Prime Ministerial face. The 47-yearold<br />

leader is currently a member of<br />

Parliament for the Lok Sabha from<br />

Amethi in Uttar Pradesh. He was made<br />

vice president of the Congress party<br />

four years ago.<br />

Rail Officials In<br />

Japan Allow Cats<br />

On Train To Raise<br />

Awareness About<br />

Culling Of Strays<br />

In order to raise awareness against the<br />

culling of the stray cats, a Japanese<br />

civic group teamed up with railway<br />

operator on Sunday to let 30 cats roam<br />

on a local train at an event. Passengers<br />

in the local in Ogaki in central Japan<br />

were greeted by meowing companions<br />

on a moving train where they enjoyed<br />

the company of the cats.<br />

"I think it's great more people are<br />

aware about stray kittens through<br />

events like this," said Mikiko Hayashi,<br />

a passenger from western Japan, who<br />

owns two cats that were strays. The<br />

event was hosted by Yoro Railway<br />

Co Ltd and a non-governmental<br />

organisation called Kitten Cafe<br />

Sanctuary.<br />

The number of cats in Japan admitted<br />

to shelters has dropped by around 70<br />

percent to 72,624 in 2016 from 237,246 in<br />

2004. That has reduced the number of<br />

cats culled from 238,929 in 2004 to 45,574<br />

in 2016. The cat population in Japan is<br />

around 9.8 million.<br />

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