New Delhi : Rahul Gandhi, the Leader of the Opposition in the Lok Sabha, ended his speech on Friday on the debate over the three bills linked to delimitation and women’s quota with a riddle. Trying to explain the timing of the government’s move to take up the women’s quota, the Congress MP said “the whole answer to the riddle is in the number 16. Everything is in the number 16”.
The mention of “number 16” by Rahul Gandhi wasn’t an answer to the riddle for most people. It was, in fact, a mystery and sent people on a wild goose chase. The guesses were from 16 MPs of the TDP to a 16-minute video expose to an international scandal to which scores of rich and the powerful have been linked to. Rahul himself started the frenzy by saying whoever understood the mystery could share it on X (Twitter).
“Yesterday, I was watching the Prime Minister speak. Low energy, broken. Nothing, nothing transmitting,” Rahul Gandhi said on Friday. The Congress leader said he then noticed that it was April 16.
“He [Modi] was not able to engage because clearly trying to pass this bill was a mistake, because everybody knew that wasn’t going to pass panic reaction,” he said.
Rahul revealed that was the moment of epiphany.
“So I was watching him, and I noticed on my phone sixteenth of April. And I was like, ‘My God, how crazy. That’s the number. Sixteen! This sixteen number, this is the number. The whole answer to the riddle is in the number sixteen. Everything is in the number sixteen,” he said.
“Now, if anybody understands what I’m saying, please send me a message and, and on Twitter you can tell what it is, but the answer to your problems, and you’re going to find out very soon, is in the number sixteen,” the Leader of the Opposition said.
