The Delhi Congress unit on Monday held a meeting at the party office regarding preparations for the ‘Bharat Jodo Yatra’ led by Rahul Gandhi. The meeting was attended by top state leaders including the controversial Jagdish Tytler.
“We will participate because we are in favor of what he (Rahul Gandhi) is doing. So, we will participate in a big way,” Congress leader Jagdish Tytler, who was reportedly sidelined by the Congress high command after his name cropped up in the 1984 anti-Sikh riots case, said.
The yatra will enter Delhi on December 24 and after a break of about eight days, it will move towards Uttar Pradesh, Haryana, Punjab and finally Jammu and Kashmir.
There is a lot of excitement about the upcoming Bharat Jodi visit to Delhi and we have made good preparations to welcome the visit here. Congress workers, general public and civil society members want to join the yatra. The visit will be historic,” said Congress leader Ajay Maken.
Bharat Jodo Yatra resumes from Dausa
The Bharat Jodo Yatra, led by Rahul Gandhi, resumed from Dausa on Monday, with Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot and senior leader Sachin Pilot walking alongside the former Congress chief.
Gandhi and Congress leaders and workers started their march from Bandikui in Dausa.
Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge and Gandhi will address a rally in Alwar this afternoon. The Yatra will not have an evening session on Monday. The yatra, which started on September 7 in Kanyakumari, has passed through Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Karnataka, Telangana, Andhra Pradesh, Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh and now Rajasthan. It completed 100 days last Friday.
It has seen participation from a cross-section of society including film and TV personalities like Pooja Bhatt, Riya Sen, Sushant Singh, Swara Bhasker, Rashmi Desai, Akanksha Puri and Amol Palekar.
Participation of tinsel town celebrities, writers, military veterans including former Navy chief Admiral L Ramadoss, Shiv Sena’s Aaditya Thackeray and NCP’s Supriya Sule, and opposition leaders like former RBI governor Raghuram Rajan have also joined the march at various points.