Meeting Rahul Gandhi remained a mission impossible for Top Gun Tom as he left India today. According to sources, one of the key demands in Tom Cruise’s concert rider was to get the Congress leader to attend the Taj Palace Hotel roof-top party that the Hollywood star hosted on Sunday night. For the uninitiated, a concert rider is a document listing what facilities must be available to a star and is sent to his promoters and the venue where the celebrity stays. Cruise, here to promote Mission: Impossible-Ghost Protocol , stayed in the presidential suite in the Taj Palace Hotel and Viacom 18 was his official host in India. “Getting Rahul Gandhi to attend the party nearly topped Cruise’s concert rider,” said a Viacom official who handled the star’s concert rider. “We approached his (Rahul’s) office through a top Mumbai businessman-politician and another Maharashtra Congressman who is a junior minister, but did not get a favourable response,” said the Viacom 18 source. “
Rahul Gandhi is an Indian politician who has played a prominent role in the Indian National Congress (INC), one of the major political parties in India.