PATHANAPURAM: Congress president Rahul Gandhi and his firebrand speech at Pathanapuram along with its Malayalam translator have gone viral on social media. Everyone wants to know the young woman who translated that speech. Jyothi Vijayakumar, the daughter of the UDF candidate at Chengannur bi-election is that smart lady.

Jyothi, who is also a sociology faculty at Civil Service Academy, has done this before. She had been a translator for Rahul Gandhi at a ‘fishermen meet’ program and for Sonia Gandhi in 2016. She has secured a PG Diploma in Journalism from the Thiruvananthapuram Press Club. A teacher by profession, she is also working at a private TV channel. She is also first woman chairperson at Mar Ivanios College.