Will Bharat Jodo Yatra help Congress? Rahul Gandhi’s reply with a jibe on BJP
The Congress’s Bharat Jodo Yatra aims to cover 12 states and 2 union territories in 150 days.
In Tamil Nadu, leading the Bharat Jodo Yatra, Rahul Gandhi on Friday said the mass contact programme has been launched by the party to “undo the damage done by the BJP and the RSS” to India. “If it helps the Congress, then that’s okay too,” the MP from Kerala’s Wayanad said, in response to a question if the 150 days long campaign would help in reviving the fortunes of the party.
With a 3,570 km long foot march, the Congress aims to cover 12 states and two union territories in the next few months. The campaign – launched with an eye on the 2024 national elections – aims to strengthen the party’s grassroot-level connect.
Gandhi, responding to a flurry of questions, also shared his response on being the party chief again. The elections for the top post are slated for October. “There is no confusion in my mind at all. This Yatra has a political element to it. Obviously, because it’s Congress’s Yatra. But I decided to join it because I believe in the ideology of the party. Hopefully, I would learn a couple of things about this beautiful country, and two-three months later, I would be a little wiser,” Rahul Gandhi said in jest.
