Congress leader Rahul Gandhi, who met 12-year-old Antony Felix when he made an unscheduled stop at a roadside bakery in Paraikode village on the Nagercoil-Thiruvananthapuram Highway on March 1, had promised him a pair of sports shoes after the boy told him that he was a sprinter.
The Class 5 student’s joy knew no bounds when a courier with sports shoes, sent by Mr. Gandhi, landed.
Can you run faster than me, the Congress leader asked a young Antony when he saw him at the bakery last week. With a little chuckle the boy, studying in class 5, told him that he could outrun him. Impressed with the boy’s prompt reaction, Mr. Gandhi promised to send him a pair of running shoes and asked him for his shoe size.
