Rahul is going abroad to meet his grandmother

New Delhi: Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi is taking a break in politics to visit his grandmother's abroad." For a few days my grandmother and family are traveling to meet. He is looking forward to having some time with them," Rahul Gandhi said. He does not mention how many days he will be out and where he was headed to.

Rahul's grandmother Paola Maino lives in Italy. Rahul Gandhi had in March visited the US, where his mother Sonia Gandhi had had gone for a health check-up. Earlier, during the New Year Celebrations, Gandhi had gone to London for a short break. His recent foreign tour comes to serious politics on the upcoming presidential election and other developments such as the agrarian crisis.