On Saturday, Rahul Gandhi spoke to female students at the AISSMS (All India Shri Shivaji Memorial Society) college ground in Pune.<\/span><\/p>\n Rahul Gandhi held a press conference at the Congress headquarters on Saturday.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Earlier, on August 22, Rahul spoke for one hour and 16 minutes at the “Students’ Voice” event in Pune on women’s freedom and the issue of patriarchy.<\/p>\n He said, “A woman’s identity does not come from her father, husband, or son; she has her own identity.” Referring to the Manusmriti, he called the mindset that considers women the property of their fathers, husbands, and children shameful.<\/p>\n Smriti had said-If Rahul is a supporter of women, he should prove it<\/strong><\/span> <\/p>\n Responding to Rahul’s remarks, BJP general secretary Smriti Irani had said that Rahul Gandhi should first support implementing women’s reservation.<\/p>\n They should prove their point by implementing 33% reservation and supporting the singing of the entire Vande Mataram. Smriti said that the last two stanzas of Vande Mataram are dedicated to Goddess Durga.<\/p>\n News is being updated…<\/strong><\/p>\n Rahul Gandhi said that there is a battle between two ideologies in the country. Untouchability persists in society. A purification ceremony was held after Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge’s rally.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" On Saturday, Rahul Gandhi spoke to female students at the AISSMS (All India Shri Shivaji Memorial Society) college ground in Pune. Rahul Gandhi held a press conference at the Congress headquarters on Saturday. Earlier, on August 22, Rahul spoke for one hour and 16 minutes at the “Students’ Voice” event in Pune on women’s freedom…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":35075,"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":[95,22605,31011,22739,23231,22107,31840,31841],"class_list":["post-35074","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nation","tag-congress","tag-manusmriti","tag-patriarchy","tag-press-conference","tag-pune","tag-rahul-gandhi","tag-students-voice","tag-women-freedom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/petrolnews.in\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35074","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=35074"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/petrolnews.in\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35074\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/petrolnews.in\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35075"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/petrolnews.in\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/petrolnews.in\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/petrolnews.in\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/images.bhaskarassets.com\/web2images\/521\/2026\/08\/29\/dbgifmagic__82_1787485978534_1787986261083.gif\")
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