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Congress leader Rahul Gandhi addresses supporters during the Bharat Jodo Yatra, near Red Fort, in Delhi on December 24. (Image: PTI)
He said that the focus of ‘Bharat Jodo Yatra’ is to remove ‘dar’ (fear) from the minds of people and raise the issue of price rise and unemployment.
congress leader Rahul Gandhi said on Wednesday that the party’s ‘Bharat Jodo Yatra’ is aimed at removing fear from the minds of people and highlighting issues like price rise and unemployment.
Amid reports that he was wearing a T-shirt in winter during the yatra, Gandhi said the media was highlighting his outfit, but “no one is paying attention to the poor farmers and laborers walking with him in tattered clothes”.
Addressing a street meeting at Baraut on the Baghpat-Shamli border during the yatra, Gandhi said he neither felt tired nor shivered in the cold despite walking a distance of over 3,000 km in 110 days is happening. In T-shirts.
Lashing out at the media, he said, “I call them ‘mitras’ (friends), but they are not performing the duty of a friend as they do not raise real issues out of fear of their bosses.” “Since media is not highlighting people’s issues, we thought of raising issues related to demonetisation, wrong GST, price rise, unemployment in Parliament, but there the mike was off. So we thought from Kanyakumari to Kashmir Let’s go.” Listen to the people,” said the former Congress chief.
He said that the focus of ‘Bharat Jodo Yatra’ is to remove ‘dar’ (fear) from the minds of people and raise the issue of price rise and unemployment.
After a brief address to the gathering, Gandhi left for Delhi.
The ‘Bharat Jodo Yatra’ of the UP phase will start from Shamli on Thursday morning, from where it will enter Haryana.
The Bharat Jodo Yatra, which began on September 7 from Kanyakumari, will conclude on January 30 with the unfurling of the national flag by Gandhi in Srinagar.
In 108 days, the march has covered 49 districts in nine states and one union territory – Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Haryana and Delhi.
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