Bharat Jodo Yatra suspended for 24 hours on account of Congress MP demise

Express News Service

CHANDIGARH: The Bharat Jodo Yatra has been suspended for 24 hours because of the demise of 76-year-old Santokh Singh Chaudhary Congress Member of Parliament from Jalandhar in the present day morning as he died of a coronary heart assault throughout the Yatra of Rahul Gandhi in Phillaur.

Sources mentioned that because the yatra reached Phillur the two-time Member of Parliament got here out with Rahul Gandhi from Kusht Ashram after which started strolling with him. After a couple of minutes, he collapsed throughout the yatra and was rushed to Virk hospital in Phagwara in an ambulance the place he was declared useless.

The yatra was halted following Chaudhary’s loss of life main Rahul Gandhi to hurry to the hospital. Later, when the physique of the deceased MP was dropped at his home in Jalandhar, Rahul visited and paid his condolences.

The final rites of Chaudhary will likely be carried out at his village tomorrow.

A outstanding Dalit chief Chaudhary had received the Lok Sabha seat from Jalandhar twice in 2014 and 2019 and earlier he remained state cabinet minister within the Capt Amarinder Singh Government. While his son Vikramjit Singh Chaudhary is presently MLA from the Phillaur meeting constituency.

Earlier within the morning, the yatra resumed from Ladhowal in Ludhiana as a part of its Punjab leg.

Congress leaders Jairam Ramesh and former Punjab Deputy Chief Minister Sukhjjnder Singh Randhwa introduced that the Yatra has been suspended for 24 hours in honour of Chaudhary. “The yatra will again start from Khalsa College in Jalandhar tomorrow afternoon after the cremation of Chaudhary and Rahul will attend the cremation tomorrow morning and today also go to the house of the deceased MP to pay his condolences,” they mentioned.

Ramesh mentioned that they acquired this tragic information at round 9 am once they have been strolling and the yatra was instantly suspended.

Randhawa mentioned that it’s a huge loss to Congress as Chaudhary belonged to a household who has devoted their whole life to the grand outdated occasion. “This is so sad that it happened just a few minutes after he was walking hail and hearty.”

“The yatra has nothing to do with elections as this march is of a political party and not a yatra to win the elections as it is being taken out against economic disparities, social polarization and political dictatorship,” mentioned Ramesh.

He mentioned that the congress will begin a ‘Hath-Se-Hath Jodo’ marketing campaign from January 26 to March 26 with the following meeting elections in a number of states this 12 months and Lok Sabha elections of 2024 and it’ll cowl 2.50 lakh panchayats in six lakh villages to take ahead the message of this yatra and can give the ‘charge-sheet’ of this authorities to the general public which now we have ready as this authorities didn’t fulfil the guarantees it made.

“This Hath-Se-Hath Jodo campaign which is directly linked to the elections will take the Bharat Jodo Yatra further but the Yatra is not directly linked to the polls but to an ideology,” mentioned Ramesh and added that this marketing campaign will likely be at three ranges (block, district and state). Besides ‘Mahila Yatras’ inside states may even be organized.

When he was requested concerning the invites despatched for the January 30 program in Srinagar the day yatra ends, Ramesh mentioned that thus far the Congress president has despatched invites to 23 events to affix the Congress over the past leg of the yatra on January 30 which is the martyrdom day of Mahatma Gandhi. Attacking a number of political events he mentioned that the B, C and D groups of BJP haven’t been invited.

“The Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD), ADMK, and BJD have not been invited. Only those parties which believe in Bharat Jodo Yatra have been invited for this meeting. As former Jammu and Kashmir Chief Ministers Farook Abdullah and Mehbooba Mufi have been invited and there is no need to invite former Congress leader Ghulam Nabi as the leaders who have gone with him have already returned to congress fold,” he mentioned.

Meanwhile expressing his condolences, Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann tweeted, “I am deeply saddened by the untimely death of Congress Member of Parliament from Jalandhar, Santokh Singh Chowdhury… May God rest his soul in peace.”

Former Chief Minister and Ex-Congress chief Amarinder Singh additionally expressed his condolences, he tweeted, “Extremely saddened to hear about the sudden demise of MP Santokh Singh Chaudhary ji due to a heart attack today. My heartfelt condolences are with his entire family in their time of grief. May Waheguru Ji grant eternal peace to the departed soul.”

Punjab Governor and Chandigarh Administrator Banwarilal Purohit has expressed his grief over Chaudhary’s loss of life. “I am shocked at the sudden, untimely demise of Chaudhary ji. He was a dedicated and hardworking leader. May his soul rest in peace,” he mentioned.

CHANDIGARH: The Bharat Jodo Yatra has been suspended for 24 hours because of the demise of 76-year-old Santokh Singh Chaudhary Congress Member of Parliament from Jalandhar in the present day morning as he died of a coronary heart assault throughout the Yatra of Rahul Gandhi in Phillaur.

Sources mentioned that because the yatra reached Phillur the two-time Member of Parliament got here out with Rahul Gandhi from Kusht Ashram after which started strolling with him. After a couple of minutes, he collapsed throughout the yatra and was rushed to Virk hospital in Phagwara in an ambulance the place he was declared useless.

The yatra was halted following Chaudhary’s loss of life main Rahul Gandhi to hurry to the hospital. Later, when the physique of the deceased MP was dropped at his home in Jalandhar, Rahul visited and paid his condolences.

The final rites of Chaudhary will likely be carried out at his village tomorrow.

A outstanding Dalit chief Chaudhary had received the Lok Sabha seat from Jalandhar twice in 2014 and 2019 and earlier he remained state cabinet minister within the Capt Amarinder Singh Government. While his son Vikramjit Singh Chaudhary is presently MLA from the Phillaur meeting constituency.

Earlier within the morning, the yatra resumed from Ladhowal in Ludhiana as a part of its Punjab leg.

Congress leaders Jairam Ramesh and former Punjab Deputy Chief Minister Sukhjjnder Singh Randhwa introduced that the Yatra has been suspended for 24 hours in honour of Chaudhary. “The yatra will again start from Khalsa College in Jalandhar tomorrow afternoon after the cremation of Chaudhary and Rahul will attend the cremation tomorrow morning and today also go to the house of the deceased MP to pay his condolences,” they mentioned.

Ramesh mentioned that they acquired this tragic information at round 9 am once they have been strolling and the yatra was instantly suspended.

Randhawa mentioned that it’s a huge loss to Congress as Chaudhary belonged to a household who has devoted their whole life to the grand outdated occasion. “This is so sad that it happened just a few minutes after he was walking hail and hearty.”

“The yatra has nothing to do with elections as this march is of a political party and not a yatra to win the elections as it is being taken out against economic disparities, social polarization and political dictatorship,” mentioned Ramesh.

He mentioned that the congress will begin a ‘Hath-Se-Hath Jodo’ marketing campaign from January 26 to March 26 with the following meeting elections in a number of states this 12 months and Lok Sabha elections of 2024 and it’ll cowl 2.50 lakh panchayats in six lakh villages to take ahead the message of this yatra and can give the ‘charge-sheet’ of this authorities to the general public which now we have ready as this authorities didn’t fulfil the guarantees it made.

“This Hath-Se-Hath Jodo campaign which is directly linked to the elections will take the Bharat Jodo Yatra further but the Yatra is not directly linked to the polls but to an ideology,” mentioned Ramesh and added that this marketing campaign will likely be at three ranges (block, district and state). Besides ‘Mahila Yatras’ inside states may even be organized.

When he was requested concerning the invites despatched for the January 30 program in Srinagar the day yatra ends, Ramesh mentioned that thus far the Congress president has despatched invites to 23 events to affix the Congress over the past leg of the yatra on January 30 which is the martyrdom day of Mahatma Gandhi. Attacking a number of political events he mentioned that the B, C and D groups of BJP haven’t been invited.

“The Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD), ADMK, and BJD have not been invited. Only those parties which believe in Bharat Jodo Yatra have been invited for this meeting. As former Jammu and Kashmir Chief Ministers Farook Abdullah and Mehbooba Mufi have been invited and there is no need to invite former Congress leader Ghulam Nabi as the leaders who have gone with him have already returned to congress fold,” he mentioned.

Meanwhile expressing his condolences, Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann tweeted, “I am deeply saddened by the untimely death of Congress Member of Parliament from Jalandhar, Santokh Singh Chowdhury… May God rest his soul in peace.”

Former Chief Minister and Ex-Congress chief Amarinder Singh additionally expressed his condolences, he tweeted, “Extremely saddened to hear about the sudden demise of MP Santokh Singh Chaudhary ji due to a heart attack today. My heartfelt condolences are with his entire family in their time of grief. May Waheguru Ji grant eternal peace to the departed soul.”

Punjab Governor and Chandigarh Administrator Banwarilal Purohit has expressed his grief over Chaudhary’s loss of life. “I am shocked at the sudden, untimely demise of Chaudhary ji. He was a dedicated and hardworking leader. May his soul rest in peace,” he mentioned.