As the Congress party reels from a series of high-profile exits, leader Rahul Gandhi is preparing for his 148-day Bharat Jodo Yatra. Gandhi will reportedly sleep in a shipping container cabin at night during the Yatra.
The Congress leader will be walking from Kanyakumari to Kashmir in the 3,500-km march which will begin on 7 September. Bihar CM Nitish Kumar met Rahul today and had discussions for about half an hour.
Before the launch of the ‘Bharat Jodo Yatra’, Rahul Gandhi will take part in a prayer meeting at former prime minister Rajiv Gandhi’s memorial in Sriperumbudur and attend an event in Kanyakumari where Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M K Stalin, Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot and Chhattisgarh CM Bhupesh Baghel will be present and the former Congress chief will be handed over a Khadi national flag, Ramesh said.
After the event at the Mahatma Gandhi Mandapam where Stalin will be present, Rahul Gandhi, along with other Congress leaders, will walk to the venue of the public rally where the yatra will be launched.
Though the 3,570-km yatra from Kanyakumari to Srinagar will be formally launched at the rally, it will actually begin at 7 am 8 when Gandhi and several other Congress leaders will embark on the journey.
The ‘padayatra’ will move in two batches, one from 7-10:30 am and the other from 3:30 pm to 6:30 pm. While the morning session will include a lesser number of participants, the evening session will see mass mobilisation. On an average, the yatris will walk around 22-23 km daily.
