Our Future Prime Minister Shri Rahul Gandhi has been busy touring Gujarat ahead of the Elections. The ‘Youth’ leader was interacting with some youth of Ahmedabad and in the course made some statements which indeed proves his General Knowledge (or should we say the lack of it??).
Well Rahul Gandhi first says that the state of Gujarat is bigger than United Kingdom for which he gets a big round of applause from his admirers. But the matter of fact is that Gujarat is 196,077 sq. km while United Kingdom is 244,820 sq. km which is lesser than that of Gujarat right? The new logic is if a= 10 and if b = 15, then a>b right?
Or if you think our beloved leader is talking in terms of population, then let’s have a look at the facts again. The population of Gujarat is 50,596,992 while that of United Kingdom is 60,943,912.
If we can accept that the statement – Gujarat is bigger than United Kingdom as just a slip then look at this. Rahul Gandhi says that “India is bigger than the United States and Europe put together”. Now does anyone need numbers to prove that this statement is wrong, well no as it is simple common sense after all that India is tiny in comparison to the United States and Europe put together both in terms of the land and population.
My guess is that Rahul Gandhi might have gone through a Text Book which showed a huge map of India in one page and the World Map in the other page and of course if you compare both the pages, you would understand that India is bigger than USA and Europe! Great!
Hey if you people think that I am cooking some nonsense here, then well please have a look below at this video:
March 17th, 2009 at 2:43 am
Mr. B.V. Swagath, you should have stopped and though, maybe only for a second, before you wrote this article. Rahul is talking in terms of population, not geographical area. And he is exactly right.
March 17th, 2009 at 6:43 am
My dear Congress and Rahul Gandhi Fan,
Read the Article properly, it clearly talked about the population part also:
Or if you think our beloved leader is talking in terms of population, then let’s have a look at the facts again. The population of Gujarat is 50,596,992 while that of United Kingdom is 60,943,912.
India is tiny in comparison to the United States and Europe put together both in terms of the land and population.
March 17th, 2009 at 11:04 am
@B.V.Swagath
Rahul is clearly talking in terms of voters; what he said is right in case of us+europe
and in case of UK comparison also he seemed ok. no need to react like this.
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India population in 2008 -> 1,147,995,904
U.S Population in 2009 -> 306,028,000
Europe population -> 731,000,000
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Gujarat population in 2001 -> 50,671,017
U.K Population in 2001 -> 58,789,194
source wikipedia