{"id":34378,"date":"2026-08-23T18:04:21","date_gmt":"2026-08-23T12:34:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/petrolnews.in\/live\/kiren-rijiju-hits-back-at-rahul-gandhi-jibe-swimming-video-controversy\/"},"modified":"2026-08-23T18:04:21","modified_gmt":"2026-08-23T12:34:21","slug":"kiren-rijiju-hits-back-at-rahul-gandhi-jibe-swimming-video-controversy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/petrolnews.in\/live\/kiren-rijiju-hits-back-at-rahul-gandhi-jibe-swimming-video-controversy\/","title":{"rendered":"Kiren Rijiju Hits Back at Rahul Gandhi Jibe; Swimming Video Controversy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div xmlns:default=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" id=\"\">\n<div class=\"f3e032cb\"><picture class=\"c62bd949\" style=\"visibility:visible\"><source media=\"(max-width: 768px)\" type=\"image\/webp\" srcset=\"https:\/\/images.bhaskarassets.com\/webp\/thumb\/360x0\/web2images\/1884\/2026\/08\/23\/dbgifmagic__83_1787486269629.gif\"\/><source media=\"(min-width: 768px)\" type=\"image\/webp\" srcset=\"https:\/\/images.bhaskarassets.com\/webp\/thumb\/512x0\/web2images\/1884\/2026\/08\/23\/dbgifmagic__83_1787486269629.gif\"\/><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"720\" height=\"540\" src=\"https:\/\/images.bhaskarassets.com\/web2images\/1884\/2026\/08\/23\/dbgifmagic__83_1787486269629.gif\" alt=\"Union Minister Kiren Rijiju had shared a video of himself swimming on X on Sunday. - Bhaskar English\" loading=\"eager\" class=\"f97587ba\"\/><\/picture><\/div>\n<p><span>Union Minister Kiren Rijiju had shared a video of himself swimming on X on Sunday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"word-break:break-word;text-align:left;white-space:pre-line\">Union Minister Kiren Rijiju shared a video of himself swimming in a river in Arunachal Pradesh on Sunday. In a video posted on X, he wrote- If you don&#8217;t know how to swim, never go into deep water. Many people have drowned in the river. The rivers of Arunachal Pradesh are very large and deep.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:0\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"word-break:break-word;text-align:left;white-space:pre-line\">Not only this, Kiren made another post, writing for those who compare him to Rahul Gandhi- Many people are saying that I am also doing like Rahul Gandhi. They might take training for this, but in my life, this is a common thing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"word-break:break-word;text-align:left;white-space:pre-line\"><span class=\"e913fbaa d3886593\"><strong>Rahul Gandhi had done scuba diving in Nicobar in June<\/strong><\/span><strong\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"word-break:break-word;text-align:left;white-space:pre-line\">Rahul Gandhi shared a 16-minute video on June 5. In it, he said that he went to Indira Point, the southernmost tip of India. He dived among the world&#8217;s most spectacular coral reefs.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:0\"\/><span style=\"font-size:0\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"word-break:break-word;text-align:center;white-space:pre-line\"><span class=\"e913fbaa d3886593\"><strong>2 pictures of Kiren Rijiju and Rahul Gandhi scuba diving<\/strong><\/span><strong\/><\/p>\n<div class=\"f3e032cb\"><picture class=\"c62bd949\" style=\"visibility:visible\"><source media=\"(max-width: 768px)\" type=\"image\/webp\" srcset=\"https:\/\/images.bhaskarassets.com\/webp\/thumb\/360x0\/web2images\/521\/2026\/06\/22\/comp-131-4_1782132061.gif\"\/><source media=\"(min-width: 768px)\" type=\"image\/webp\" srcset=\"https:\/\/images.bhaskarassets.com\/webp\/thumb\/512x0\/web2images\/521\/2026\/06\/22\/comp-131-4_1782132061.gif\"\/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/images.bhaskarassets.com\/web2images\/521\/2026\/06\/22\/comp-131-4_1782132061.gif\" alt=\"On June 5, Rahul Gandhi shared a 16-minute scuba diving video.\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"f97587ba\"\/><\/picture><\/div>\n<p><span>On June 5, Rahul Gandhi shared a 16-minute scuba diving video.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"f3e032cb\"><picture class=\"c62bd949\" style=\"visibility:visible\"><source media=\"(max-width: 768px)\" type=\"image\/webp\" srcset=\"https:\/\/images.bhaskarassets.com\/webp\/thumb\/360x0\/web2images\/521\/2026\/06\/22\/comp-161-2_1782132893.gif\"\/><source media=\"(min-width: 768px)\" type=\"image\/webp\" srcset=\"https:\/\/images.bhaskarassets.com\/webp\/thumb\/512x0\/web2images\/521\/2026\/06\/22\/comp-161-2_1782132893.gif\"\/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/images.bhaskarassets.com\/web2images\/521\/2026\/06\/22\/comp-161-2_1782132893.gif\" alt=\"On June 20, Kiren Rijiju shared his scuba diving video. He had visited Swaraj Dweep.\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"f97587ba\"\/><\/picture><\/div>\n<p><span>On June 20, Kiren Rijiju shared his scuba diving video. He had visited Swaraj Dweep.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:0\"\/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Union Minister Kiren Rijiju had shared a video of himself swimming on X on Sunday. Union Minister Kiren Rijiju shared a video of himself swimming in a river in Arunachal Pradesh on Sunday. In a video posted on X, he wrote- If you don&#8217;t know how to swim, never go into deep water. Many people&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":34379,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[26096,30742,22281,22607,22107,30740,30741,20623],"class_list":["post-34378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nation","tag-arunachal-pradesh","tag-arunachal-rivers","tag-kiren-rijiju","tag-political-controversy","tag-rahul-gandhi","tag-swimming-video","tag-union-minister","tag-viral-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/petrolnews.in\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34378","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/petrolnews.in\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/petrolnews.in\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/petrolnews.in\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/petrolnews.in\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34378"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/petrolnews.in\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34378\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/petrolnews.in\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/petrolnews.in\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/petrolnews.in\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/petrolnews.in\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}