Tamil Nadu CM handy over nationwide flag to Rahul Gandhi forward of ‘Bharat Jodo Yatra’

By PTI

NEW DELHI: Before the launch of the ‘Bharat Jodo Yatra’ on September 7, Congress chief Rahul Gandhi will participate in a prayer assembly at former prime minister Rajiv Gandhi’s memorial in Sriperumbudur and attend an occasion in Kanyakumari the place Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M Ok Stalin will hand over the nationwide flag to him, sources stated on Friday.

After the occasion on the Mahatma Gandhi Mandapam the place Stalin will likely be current, Rahul Gandhi, together with different Congress leaders, will stroll to the venue of the general public rally the place the yatra will likely be launched.

Though the three,570-km yatra from Kanyakumari to Srinagar will likely be formally launched on the rally, it’ll truly start at 7 am on September 8 when Gandhi and a number of other different Congress leaders will embark on the journey, the sources stated.

The ‘padayatra’ will attain Kerala on September 11 and can traverse by way of the state for the following 18 days, reaching Karnataka on September 30.

The yatra will stay in Karnataka for 21 days earlier than shifting to different states northwards.

The get together has labeled 118 leaders, together with Gandhi, as ‘Bharat Yatris’ who will stroll by way of the space from Kanyakumari to Srinagar.

They will cowl on a median 20-25 km a day.

Nine leaders, together with Rahul Gandhi, out of the 118 ‘Bharat Yatris’ are within the age bracket of 51-60 years, sources stated.

Of the 118 leaders, 20 are within the age bracket of 25-30, 51 between 31-40, 38 between 41-50, they stated.

The yatra will begin from Kanyakumari in Tamil Nadu after which transfer northwards passing by way of Thiruvananthapuram, Kochi, Nilambur, Mysuru, Bellary, Raichur, Vikarabad, Nanded, Jalgaon, Indore, Kota, Dausa, Alwar, Bulandshahr, Delhi, Ambala, Pathankot, Jammu, and culminate in Srinagar.

The classification of these collaborating within the yatra is — ‘Bharat Yatris’, ‘Atithi Yatras’ and ‘Pradesh Yatris’.

A brand new classification of ‘Volunteer Yatris’ has been launched after over 37,000 widespread individuals not associated to the get together registered on the ‘Bharat Jodo Yatra’ web site.

Before the launch of the yatra on September 7, Rahul Gandhi can even go to Vivekananda Rock Memorial, Thiruvalluvar Statue and Kamaraj Memorial in Kanyakumari.

The ‘padayatra’ will transfer in two batches one from 7-10:30 am within the morning and the opposite from 3:30 pm to six:30 pm within the night.

While the morning session would come with a lesser variety of contributors, the night session would see mass mobilisation, the sources stated.

The tagline of the yatra is ‘Mile Kadam, Jude Watan’.

In a tweet in Hindi, Congress normal secretary Jairam Ramesh stated, “For the Bharat Jodo Yatra preparations, Digvijaya Singh and I visited three states in the last three days. We will soon go to other states. There is a tremendous amount of enthusiasm and excitement about the journey. The whole party is involved in this.”

‘Bharat Jodo Yatra’ is transformational politics and it’s not ‘Mann ki Baat’ however concern for the individuals, he added, in a swipe at Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

First hold your flock collectively, then discuss of Bharat Jodo: Nadda to Cong

Making an unsparing assault on the Congress that has seen an exit of many senior leaders in current occasions, BJP chief J P Nadda on Friday mocked the get together’s Bharat Jodo Yatra, telling it to first hold its flock collectively.

Taking a dig on the Congress throughout a rally in Haryana’s Kaithal, he additionally accused it of being a family-centric get together.

“The Congress is now neither a party of ideology nor a national party, nor even a regional party. It has been reduced to a brother-sister party,” Nadda stated apparently referring to former Congress chief Rahul Gandhi and his sister Priyanka Gandhi.

Referring to senior Congress Ghulam Nabi Azad’s exit from the get together, he stated the individuals who spent 50 years for it and gave their blood and sweat are deserting it.

“Did you ever think why are they leaving,” the BJP chief requested, including that senior leaders are quitting with a message that the get together first must hold its flock collectively.

“Now, they are talking of Bharat Jodo, Bharat Jodo, ‘arrey pehle party toh jod lo’ (unite the party first),” he added.

An identical suggestion was given by Azad to Congress president Sonia Gandhi in his resignation letter, saying earlier than beginning the Bharat Jodo Yatra, the management ought to have undertaken a “Congress jodo” train throughout the nation.

The Congress will start subsequent week its Bharat Jodo Yatra from Kanyakumari to Kashmir.

The yatra will cowl 3,750 km over a interval of 150 days.

Nadda additional stated the BJP and the governments led by it are working to take the nation and states forward and bringing a change within the lives of individuals, together with weaker sections and girls.

Mentioning a number of events, Nadda stated the BJP is pitted towards family-centric outfits, which solely care about themselves and their households whereas the BJP and the governments led by it take into consideration the nation and the nation’s individuals.

“Whose party has the Shiv Sena remained now, a family party. The real Shiv Sena has left them,” he stated.

He stated whereas Prime Minister Narendra Modi is working to deliver a few change in individuals’s lives, the family-centric events are working to avoid wasting themselves and their youngsters.

“We are for the country, they are for themselves,” he stated.

“And also understand another thing, those who are fighting against corruption, they themselves are on bail. What will they fight,” he stated with out taking any names.

Nadda additionally alleged that previously 70 years every time there was a Congress rule and people of different events, they tried to divide society and made a brother battle towards his brother, pitted one caste towards the opposite, one area towards the opposite for the sake of energy.

He claimed that persons are reaping rewards of bringing the BJP to energy.

“That is why I always say if you have to enjoy the light, remember darkness. If you think of good days, then remember the days of the past, then you will know how difference is made when right party and right person occupies the seat of power,” he stated.

He stated right now the nation will not be solely making progress, “but we are progressing with leaps and bounds”.

He asserted the BJP is the one get together which is working to deliver a change in individuals’s lives.

The BJP is the get together which works for the welfare of weaker sections, farmers, girls, youth, underprivileged and the poor, he stated.

He touched upon a number of schemes initiated for girls by the Narendra Modi authorities whereas Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar, who was additionally current, touched upon the zero tolerance coverage proven by his dispensation in the direction of corruption and highlighted a number of pro-people initiatives of his authorities.

Nadda praised Prime Minister Narendra Modi for altering the tradition and definition of politics and governance.

He stated when the Covid pandemic broke out even the nations with higher well being amenities had been seen struggling nevertheless it was as a result of prime minister’s imaginative and prescient and management that India fought the disaster successfully.

He stated inside just a few months India got here out with vaccine towards Covid and other people acquired a “suraksha kavach” towards the illness.

Nadda is on a two-day go to to Haryana, throughout which he’ll maintain a collection of conferences with get together staff and leaders.

On Friday, he additionally held get together conferences in Ambala and Panchkula.

His go to comes forward of the panchayat polls within the state.

Sitting in government-sanctioned ‘bungalows with large lawns & planting faux information’: Ramesh’s dig at Azad

Senior Congress chief Jairam Ramesh took a veiled dig at former get together chief Ghulam Nabi Azad on Friday and accused him of planting faux information whereas sitting in “Modi Sarkar sanctioned bungalows with huge lawns” in Delhi.

Referring to a video of Congress staff holding a public assembly in Jammu and Kashmir’s Bhalessa, the native place of Azad, Ramesh stated, “This is ground reality, not reality manufactured by people sitting in New Delhi in Modi Sarkar sanctioned bungalows with huge lawns and planting fake news.”

The Jammu and Kashmir Congress shared the video on Twitter and wrote: “Congress workers of all blocks of Sub Division Bhalessa assembled at Congress office Gandoh to hold monthly meeting which is being conducted 1st day of every month for last more than 50 years. Bhalessa is the home village of Ghulam Nabi Azad.”

Azad has attacked the get together management, together with Ramesh, after he introduced his resignation from the Congress in a five-page stinging letter to Sonia Gandhi final week.

Azad significantly focused Rahul Gandhi, alleging he doesn’t have the aptitude or curiosity in politics.

NEW DELHI: Before the launch of the ‘Bharat Jodo Yatra’ on September 7, Congress chief Rahul Gandhi will participate in a prayer assembly at former prime minister Rajiv Gandhi’s memorial in Sriperumbudur and attend an occasion in Kanyakumari the place Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M Ok Stalin will hand over the nationwide flag to him, sources stated on Friday.

After the occasion on the Mahatma Gandhi Mandapam the place Stalin will likely be current, Rahul Gandhi, together with different Congress leaders, will stroll to the venue of the general public rally the place the yatra will likely be launched.

Though the three,570-km yatra from Kanyakumari to Srinagar will likely be formally launched on the rally, it’ll truly start at 7 am on September 8 when Gandhi and a number of other different Congress leaders will embark on the journey, the sources stated.

The ‘padayatra’ will attain Kerala on September 11 and can traverse by way of the state for the following 18 days, reaching Karnataka on September 30.

The yatra will stay in Karnataka for 21 days earlier than shifting to different states northwards.

The get together has labeled 118 leaders, together with Gandhi, as ‘Bharat Yatris’ who will stroll by way of the space from Kanyakumari to Srinagar.

They will cowl on a median 20-25 km a day.

Nine leaders, together with Rahul Gandhi, out of the 118 ‘Bharat Yatris’ are within the age bracket of 51-60 years, sources stated.

Of the 118 leaders, 20 are within the age bracket of 25-30, 51 between 31-40, 38 between 41-50, they stated.

The yatra will begin from Kanyakumari in Tamil Nadu after which transfer northwards passing by way of Thiruvananthapuram, Kochi, Nilambur, Mysuru, Bellary, Raichur, Vikarabad, Nanded, Jalgaon, Indore, Kota, Dausa, Alwar, Bulandshahr, Delhi, Ambala, Pathankot, Jammu, and culminate in Srinagar.

The classification of these collaborating within the yatra is — ‘Bharat Yatris’, ‘Atithi Yatras’ and ‘Pradesh Yatris’.

A brand new classification of ‘Volunteer Yatris’ has been launched after over 37,000 widespread individuals not associated to the get together registered on the ‘Bharat Jodo Yatra’ web site.

Before the launch of the yatra on September 7, Rahul Gandhi can even go to Vivekananda Rock Memorial, Thiruvalluvar Statue and Kamaraj Memorial in Kanyakumari.

The ‘padayatra’ will transfer in two batches one from 7-10:30 am within the morning and the opposite from 3:30 pm to six:30 pm within the night.

While the morning session would come with a lesser variety of contributors, the night session would see mass mobilisation, the sources stated.

The tagline of the yatra is ‘Mile Kadam, Jude Watan’.

In a tweet in Hindi, Congress normal secretary Jairam Ramesh stated, “For the Bharat Jodo Yatra preparations, Digvijaya Singh and I visited three states in the last three days. We will soon go to other states. There is a tremendous amount of enthusiasm and excitement about the journey. The whole party is involved in this.”

‘Bharat Jodo Yatra’ is transformational politics and it’s not ‘Mann ki Baat’ however concern for the individuals, he added, in a swipe at Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

First hold your flock collectively, then discuss of Bharat Jodo: Nadda to Cong

Making an unsparing assault on the Congress that has seen an exit of many senior leaders in current occasions, BJP chief J P Nadda on Friday mocked the get together’s Bharat Jodo Yatra, telling it to first hold its flock collectively.

Taking a dig on the Congress throughout a rally in Haryana’s Kaithal, he additionally accused it of being a family-centric get together.

“The Congress is now neither a party of ideology nor a national party, nor even a regional party. It has been reduced to a brother-sister party,” Nadda stated apparently referring to former Congress chief Rahul Gandhi and his sister Priyanka Gandhi.

Referring to senior Congress Ghulam Nabi Azad’s exit from the get together, he stated the individuals who spent 50 years for it and gave their blood and sweat are deserting it.

“Did you ever think why are they leaving,” the BJP chief requested, including that senior leaders are quitting with a message that the get together first must hold its flock collectively.

“Now, they are talking of Bharat Jodo, Bharat Jodo, ‘arrey pehle party toh jod lo’ (unite the party first),” he added.

An identical suggestion was given by Azad to Congress president Sonia Gandhi in his resignation letter, saying earlier than beginning the Bharat Jodo Yatra, the management ought to have undertaken a “Congress jodo” train throughout the nation.

The Congress will start subsequent week its Bharat Jodo Yatra from Kanyakumari to Kashmir.

The yatra will cowl 3,750 km over a interval of 150 days.

Nadda additional stated the BJP and the governments led by it are working to take the nation and states forward and bringing a change within the lives of individuals, together with weaker sections and girls.

Mentioning a number of events, Nadda stated the BJP is pitted towards family-centric outfits, which solely care about themselves and their households whereas the BJP and the governments led by it take into consideration the nation and the nation’s individuals.

“Whose party has the Shiv Sena remained now, a family party. The real Shiv Sena has left them,” he stated.

He stated whereas Prime Minister Narendra Modi is working to deliver a few change in individuals’s lives, the family-centric events are working to avoid wasting themselves and their youngsters.

“We are for the country, they are for themselves,” he stated.

“And also understand another thing, those who are fighting against corruption, they themselves are on bail. What will they fight,” he stated with out taking any names.

Nadda additionally alleged that previously 70 years every time there was a Congress rule and people of different events, they tried to divide society and made a brother battle towards his brother, pitted one caste towards the opposite, one area towards the opposite for the sake of energy.

He claimed that persons are reaping rewards of bringing the BJP to energy.

“That is why I always say if you have to enjoy the light, remember darkness. If you think of good days, then remember the days of the past, then you will know how difference is made when right party and right person occupies the seat of power,” he stated.

He stated right now the nation will not be solely making progress, “but we are progressing with leaps and bounds”.

He asserted the BJP is the one get together which is working to deliver a change in individuals’s lives.

The BJP is the get together which works for the welfare of weaker sections, farmers, girls, youth, underprivileged and the poor, he stated.

He touched upon a number of schemes initiated for girls by the Narendra Modi authorities whereas Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar, who was additionally current, touched upon the zero tolerance coverage proven by his dispensation in the direction of corruption and highlighted a number of pro-people initiatives of his authorities.

Nadda praised Prime Minister Narendra Modi for altering the tradition and definition of politics and governance.

He stated when the Covid pandemic broke out even the nations with higher well being amenities had been seen struggling nevertheless it was as a result of prime minister’s imaginative and prescient and management that India fought the disaster successfully.

He stated inside just a few months India got here out with vaccine towards Covid and other people acquired a “suraksha kavach” towards the illness.

Nadda is on a two-day go to to Haryana, throughout which he’ll maintain a collection of conferences with get together staff and leaders.

On Friday, he additionally held get together conferences in Ambala and Panchkula.

His go to comes forward of the panchayat polls within the state.

Sitting in government-sanctioned ‘bungalows with large lawns & planting faux information’: Ramesh’s dig at Azad

Senior Congress chief Jairam Ramesh took a veiled dig at former get together chief Ghulam Nabi Azad on Friday and accused him of planting faux information whereas sitting in “Modi Sarkar sanctioned bungalows with huge lawns” in Delhi.

Referring to a video of Congress staff holding a public assembly in Jammu and Kashmir’s Bhalessa, the native place of Azad, Ramesh stated, “This is ground reality, not reality manufactured by people sitting in New Delhi in Modi Sarkar sanctioned bungalows with huge lawns and planting fake news.”

The Jammu and Kashmir Congress shared the video on Twitter and wrote: “Congress workers of all blocks of Sub Division Bhalessa assembled at Congress office Gandoh to hold monthly meeting which is being conducted 1st day of every month for last more than 50 years. Bhalessa is the home village of Ghulam Nabi Azad.”

Azad has attacked the get together management, together with Ramesh, after he introduced his resignation from the Congress in a five-page stinging letter to Sonia Gandhi final week.

Azad significantly focused Rahul Gandhi, alleging he doesn’t have the aptitude or curiosity in politics.