New Delhi: Congress chief Rahul Gandhi will embark on a second Bharat Jodo Yatra, the Maharashtra unit of the get together mentioned Tuesday, and the route will criss-cross the nation from east to west this time.
Maharashtra Congress chief Nana Patole informed reporters Tuesday that the yatra could be from Gujarat to Meghalaya. He didn’t give the dates for Gandhi’s subsequent march however mentioned Maharashtra leaders would concurrently stroll the size and breadth of the state throughout that point.
#WATCH | “Second leg of Rahul Gandhi’s Bharat Jodo Yatra to start from Gujarat to Meghalaya,” says Maharashtra Congress chief Nana Patole pic.twitter.com/KqjikjkDPK
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The primary yatra started on 7 September final yr from Kanyakumari and culminated in Kashmir on 30 January, 2023. Gandhi led a number of get together colleagues to stroll 4,080 kilometres throughout 12 states and two Union Territories through the get together’s mass outreach programme.
In February, Congress Normal Secretary Jairam Ramesh had hinted that the get together was contemplating one other yatra from Arunachal Pradesh’s Pasighat to Gujarat’s Porbandar.
A couple of days earlier than that, Rahul Gandhi had referred to as for taking the “tapasya” of the Bharat Jodo Yatra ahead.
Ramesh mentioned there was a variety of enthusiasm and power amongst get together employees for an additional yatra after the Kanyakumari-to-Kashmir journey.
He informed information company PTI that an east-to-west yatra was being thought-about however its format could be a bit totally different from the yatra’s first version.
The veteran chief mentioned the second won’t be as elaborate as the primary, as there have been jungles and rivers on the route.
“It will be a multi-modal yatra, however largely it could be a padayatra,” Ramesh mentioned.
He additionally mentioned the yatra could be undertaken earlier than November given the state polls that month, including it could not be as lengthy both.
