“Why does a bike weigh 100 kilos and a automotive weighs 3,000 (kilos)?” Congress Rahul Gandhi, who can also be the Chief of Opposition in Lok Sabha, posed this query to his viewers throughout an occasion on the EIA College in Medellin, Colombia.
“Why does a bike weigh 100 kilos and a automotive weighs 3,000 (kilos)?” Congress MP Rahul Gandhi posed this attention-grabbing query, as he interacted with a gaggle of scholars on the EIA College in Medellin metropolis of Colombia. Nonetheless, his car-bike analogy drew criticism from the ruling Bharatiya Janata Social gathering (BJP), which questioned why Gandhi is invited by universities when Congress has many realized leaders similar to Shashi Tharoor and Manish Tewari.
“To hold one passenger, you want 3,000 kilos of metallic in a automotive if one passenger is driving a automotive. And a bike has 100 kilos, carries two passengers. So why is a bike capable of carry two passengers with 150 kilos of metallic and a automotive wants 3,000?” requested Gandhi throughout his interplay.
As per Gandhi, who’s the Chief of Opposition in Lok Sabha, his query lies on the centre of the transition to electrical autos from these working on standard gasoline. When somebody from the viewers tried to reply him, he reiterated his revolves round why a automotive wants “3,000 kilos of metallic”.
“The reply is it is the engine, as a result of it is the engine that kills you on impression. Proper? And the motorbike is gentle as a result of the engine disappears from you when you will have an accident. Proper?” Gandhi mentioned.
“In a bike, whenever you have an effect, the engine is separated from you. So the engine would not damage you. Whereas in a automotive, whenever you have an effect, the engine comes into the automotive. So your complete automotive is designed to cease the engine from killing you,” Gandhi defined, including “The electrical motor breaks that centralised power system.”
Gandhi’s car-bike analogy attracts BJP’s ire
Gandhi’s car-bike analogy gave a possibility to the BJP to assault the Congress chief, with the saffron occasion saying if anybody had any doubts in regards to the Lok Sabha LoP’s information, then they’d have gotten erased after listening to this.
“From Harley-Davidson to Toyota and from Volkswagen to Ford, mechanical engineers should be beating their chests after listening to a tremendous engineering gyan that he gave,” mentioned BJP MP and nationwide spokesperson Sudhanshu Trivedi at a press convention on Friday.
“In his video, Rahul Gandhi incorrectly equated decentralisation in four-wheel drive autos with two-wheelers, falsely explaining engine separation throughout an accident and equating it with elements linked by way of bolts,” he added.
Trivedi mentioned it’s as if Gandhi believes that every thing in India will collapse in an analogous method, quipping such an individual, “possessing this so-called extraordinary information”, is invited from the Congress by varied universities to talk.
“There are a lot of folks (within the Congress) who’re specialists of their topics, together with his (Rahul Gandhi’s) uncle Sam Pitroda, who completely lives overseas and has a picture of an mental,” Trivedi added.
(With inputs from PTI)