Rahul Gandhi meets Dharavi leather hub workers in Mumbai

Rahul Gandhi Leader of Opposition in Lok Sabha on Thursday visited the Dharavi leather hub in Mumbai and interacted with leather industry workersThe visit was aimed at understanding the challenges faced by the Dharavi leather hub workforce a Congress leader saidAmong the manufacturing units Gandhi visited is Chamar Studio set up by Sudheer RajbharDharavi is one of the largest leather hubs in the world with more than 20000 leather manufacturing units employing more than one lakh workersGandhi interacted with the leather industry workers in Dharavi and sought to understand their issues He also interacted with the entrepreneurs there the Congress leader saidRahul Gandhi who reached Mumbai from Delhi will stay in the city for the night and will leave for Ahmedabad on Friday morning he saidThere is no scheduled meeting with Congress party leaders in the evening in Mumbai he addedWill put across porters demands to govt fight for their rights Rahul GandhiDrawing attention to the financial difficulties faced by railway porters Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday said they risked their lives to help people during the stampede at the New Delhi Railway Station last month and yet their voice was not being heardThe former Congress president who posted on his YouTube channel a video of his recent interaction with porters at the New Delhi Railway Station asserted that he would fight for their rightsGandhi also urged people to share suggestions on the Awaaz Bharat Ki portal to improve crowd management and strengthen securityWe will listen to the voice of India he said on XThe increasing number of stampedes at railway stations and other public places is a matter of great concern Gandhi said noting that many innocent people lose their lives or get injured in such incidentsWe need to think together about how to prevent such tragedies he saidIn his post accompanying the video of his interaction with porters Gandhi said A few days ago I reached New Delhi Railway Station and met the porter brothers there again During the interaction they told me how everyone together made every possible effort to save peoples lives on the day of the stampedeWhether it was trying to remove people from the crowd ensuring that the injured reached the ambulance and administration or taking out the bodies of the dead using their physical abilities handcarts or spending money from their own pockets they helped the passengers in every way the Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha saidWith inputs from PTI