Guwahati: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi started the second day of the Bharat Jodo Yatra on Thursday Agasteeswaram town of Kanyakumari district in Tamil Nadu along with other senior party leaders in an effort to combat the polarising policies of the BJP-led Centre and educate the populace about the dangers of economic inequality, social polarisation, and political centralization.
Senior leaders including party MPs KC Venugopal, P Chidambaram, Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel and others participated in ‘Padyatra’ along with Rahul Gandhi.
Former Congress president Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday said that the tricolour is owned by every state, religion, and language, but the BJP and the RSS are attacking it right now because they are splitting India along religious and linguistic lines.
He claimed that every institution in the nation is under attack while pleading for support from the populace to keep the country united during the Bharat Jodo Yatra rally on Wednesday.
Rahul Gandhi will embark on a 3,500-kilometer march from Kanyakumari to Kashmir that will take 150 days to complete and pass through up to 12 states.
On September 11, the Yatra will arrive in Kerala. Over the next 18 days, it will travel through the state, arriving in Karnataka on September 30. Before travelling further north, it will spend 21 days in Karnataka.
Rahul Gandhi remarked earlier on Wednesday that the opposition was not intimidated by the Bhartiya Janata Party.
He delivered them during his nighttime address to the crowd on the first day.
“Using the CBI, ED, and IT, they (the BJP) believe they can intimidate the opposition. They have a difficulty since they don’t comprehend Indians. Indians don’t experience fear. No opposition politician will be intimidated by the BJP, “said Congress MP Rahul Gandhi.
In addition, he emphasised the significance of the Indian tricolour and denounced the BJP for allegedly treating it as their own property.
“I am really happy to start the Bharat Jodo Yatra from this lovely location. Every person who lives in this country has a language and a religion that are represented by the national flag. They (the BJP and RSS) believe that they own this flag ” he added.
Some important queries about Rahul Gandhi’s accommodations and diet surface when the party launches its statewide yatra. However, the party has stated that he will not stay in a hotel but will instead do the entire route in a straightforward manner.
The next 150 days will pass with Rahul Gandhi still inside the container. Some of the containers also have AC, sleeping mattresses, and restrooms. There will be numerous different climate and environmental conditions along the way. The arrangements were made with the new location’s extreme heat and humidity in mind.