Congress chief Rahul Gandhi supplied prayers on the Golden Temple in Amritsar today, an afternoon earlier than the begin of the Punjab leg of his birthday birthday celebration’s Bharat Jodo Yatra. Rahul Gandhi arrived on the Amritsar airport withinside the afternoon after concluding the Haryana leg of the foot march.
Sporting an orange turban, the previous Congress leader paid obeisance on the sanctum sanctorum of the Golden Temple. “By attaining Sri Harmandir Sahib, the religion in human values turns into even deeper. Sat Shri Akal!” he stated in a tweet in Hindi.
Rahul Gandhi additionally published some pix on Twitter, in which he’s visible taking “parshad” and listening to “gurbani” for the duration of his Golden Temple go to.
Mr Gandhi changed into followed with the aid of using Punjab Congress leader Amarinder Singh Raja Warring, Leader of Opposition withinside the Punjab Assembly Partap Singh Bajwa, neighborhood MP Gurjit Singh Aujla and different birthday birthday celebration leaders.
Till Tuesday morning, numerous Punjab Congress leaders had been now no longer aware about Rahul Gandhi’s plan to go to Amritsar.
Congress trendy secretary in-rate communications Jairam Ramesh had advised newshounds in Ambala in advance withinside the day that Rahul Gandhi, who’s main the Bharat Jodo Yatra, will go to the Golden Temple.
From Amritsar, Mr Gandhi went to Sirhind in Fatehgarh Sahib in which he’ll live for the night.
Meanwhile, in advance of the Punjab leg of the Bharat Jodo Yatra, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) centered the Congress over the 1984 anti-Sikh riots.
“The manner Sikhs had been killed in 1984, the Congress in no way felt ashamed of it. I wish that in his yatra, he (Rahul Gandhi) will are searching for an apology from Punjabis for that heinous act,” Punjab BJP leader Ashwani Sharma stated.
SAD leader Sukhbir Singh Badal dubbed Rahul Gandhi’s yatra as a “drama” and slammed the Congress for the 1984 riots.
According to the time table of the yatra, Mr Gandhi pays obeisance at Gurdwara Fatehgarh Sahib in Sirhind on Wednesday morning and thereafter, the Punjab leg of the foot march will begin.
During its 8-day live in Punjab, the yatra is scheduled to byskip via Mandi Gobindgarh, Khanna, Sahnewal, Ludhiana, Goraya, Phagwara, Jalandhar, Dasyua and Mukerian.
A rally can be organised at Pathankot on January 19, earlier than the march enters Jammu and Kashmir.
Rahul Gandhi will stroll 3 hours every withinside the morning and the evening, masking 25 kilometres each day.
Ramesh stated on January 12, the yatra will cowl the gap for the day at a stretch and take a spoil withinside the afternoon, with a view to maintain for the complete day on January thirteen in view of the Lohri festival. Mr Warring stated Mr Gandhi is scripting “history” with the Bharat Jodo Yatra.
“All set for #BharatJodoYatra to go into Punjab today. @RahulGandhi ji is scripting history. Punjabis have constantly been a part of splendid and superb activities and movements. Saying it again. It’s now no longer the Congress birthday birthday celebration’s yatra. It’s a yatra of Indians, with the aid of using Indians, for Indians. Jai Hind,” the Punjab Congress leader stated in a tweet.
“Paid obeisance on the Harmandir Sahib alongwith @rahulgandhi ji as he starts offevolved the Punjab leg of the #BharatJodoYatra from the land of gurus, rishis, pirs and martyrs,” Mr Warring stated in any other tweet.
Earlier withinside the morning, Mr Gandhi resumed the foot march from Shahpur in Haryana’s Ambala Cantonment. The former Congress leader changed into additionally joined with the aid of using birthday birthday celebration chief Raj Babbar.
The yatra entered Haryana’s Panipat from neighbouring Uttar Pradesh on Thursday and handed via Karnal and Kurukshetra districts, earlier than attaining Ambala.
In the primary segment in Haryana from December 21 to 23, the yatra had handed via Nuh, Gurugram and Faridabad districts. Ramesh stated the yatra blanketed 255 kilometres in Haryana over 8 days and handed via seven districts.
During the Haryana leg of the march, Mr Gandhi changed into followed with the aid of using senior Congress leaders Bhupinder Singh Hooda, Kumari Selja, Randeep Singh Surjewala, Deepender Singh Hooda, K C Venugopal and country Congress leader Udai Bhan, amongst others.
The yatra, which commenced from Kanyakumari in Tamil Nadu on September 7, will finish in Srinagar with the aid of using January 30, with Rahul Gandhi hoisting the countrywide flag withinside the summer time season capital of Jammu and Kashmir.
The march has to this point blanketed Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Delhi, Uttar Pradesh and Haryana.
