Bharat Jodo Yatra: Day after CPM jibe, Rahul extends keep in UP by three days
3 min readExpress News Service
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Under assault from the CPM for Rahul Gandhi’s Bharat Jodo Yatra spending solely two days within the BJP-ruled Uttar Pradesh, the Congress has reworked the yatra’s itinerary, extending its keep in the important thing state to 5 days. The Congress management although put up a courageous face, saying the yatra was initially scheduled for 5 days in UP.
The CPM’s official twitter deal with on Monday posted a poster with a tag line, ‘strange way to fight BJP-RSS’, and questioning whether or not the Yatra that spends 18 days in Left-ruled Kerala and two days in BJP-ruled UP was meant to unite India or simply Congress’ seats within the southern state. The tweet despatched ripples throughout the political spectrum, prompting the Congress nationwide basic secretary (communications) Jairam Ramesh to retort that the “CPM is the ‘A’ team of BJP in the land of Mundu Modi”.
However, the Congress management on Tuesday made it clear that the yatra will probably be in UP for 5 days. Jairam Ramesh instructed TNIE that the yatra was deliberate for 5 days in UP from day one and there’s no change of plan following the CPM’s jibe.“It was an idiotic tweet by the CPM. They got it wrong which led me to reply that they should have done their homework on how and why the yatra was planned the way it is,” he mentioned.
A Congress supply from New Delhi mentioned the yatra schedule for UP was modified from two days to 5 days even earlier than the CPM’s criticism. The schedule for every state was finalised based mostly on size of the route, topography and the safety elements, mentioned the supply.
A supply near Rahul mentioned the Nehru scion shares an excellent rapport with CPM basic secretary Sitram Yechury and should have heeded to the Left chief’s opinion to increase the keep in UP. Rahul could be spending a most of 21 days in Karnataka and Rajasthan. Incidentally, each these states are going to polls subsequent yr. Then the query arose on why the yatra utterly averted Gujarat, Chhattisgarh and north-eastern states.
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Under assault from the CPM for Rahul Gandhi’s Bharat Jodo Yatra spending solely two days within the BJP-ruled Uttar Pradesh, the Congress has reworked the yatra’s itinerary, extending its keep in the important thing state to 5 days. The Congress management although put up a courageous face, saying the yatra was initially scheduled for 5 days in UP.
The CPM’s official twitter deal with on Monday posted a poster with a tag line, ‘strange way to fight BJP-RSS’, and questioning whether or not the Yatra that spends 18 days in Left-ruled Kerala and two days in BJP-ruled UP was meant to unite India or simply Congress’ seats within the southern state. The tweet despatched ripples throughout the political spectrum, prompting the Congress nationwide basic secretary (communications) Jairam Ramesh to retort that the “CPM is the ‘A’ team of BJP in the land of Mundu Modi”.
However, the Congress management on Tuesday made it clear that the yatra will probably be in UP for 5 days. Jairam Ramesh instructed TNIE that the yatra was deliberate for 5 days in UP from day one and there’s no change of plan following the CPM’s jibe.“It was an idiotic tweet by the CPM. They got it wrong which led me to reply that they should have done their homework on how and why the yatra was planned the way it is,” he mentioned.
A Congress supply from New Delhi mentioned the yatra schedule for UP was modified from two days to 5 days even earlier than the CPM’s criticism. The schedule for every state was finalised based mostly on size of the route, topography and the safety elements, mentioned the supply.
A supply near Rahul mentioned the Nehru scion shares an excellent rapport with CPM basic secretary Sitram Yechury and should have heeded to the Left chief’s opinion to increase the keep in UP. Rahul could be spending a most of 21 days in Karnataka and Rajasthan. Incidentally, each these states are going to polls subsequent yr. Then the query arose on why the yatra utterly averted Gujarat, Chhattisgarh and north-eastern states.
