After a day’s break to vote within the Congress presidential election, Rahul Gandhi resumed his Bharat Jodo Yatra on Tuesday as he entered Andhra Pradesh, a symbolic second in a state that has not elected any Congress MLA or MP since 2014.
Rahul started his march in Kurnool district, which falls underneath the so-called Rayalaseema area, a powerful base of the celebration previous to Andhra Pradesh’s bifurcation underneath UPA rule on the Centre in 2014.
It was one in all Rayalaseema’s tallest leaders, former CM and Congress stalwart Dr Y S Rajashekara Reddy, who had first prompt that Rahul lead the celebration and “someday” turn out to be PM.
Additionally, using on anger over the state’s bifurcation, it’s YSR’s son and incumbent CM Jagan Reddy, who fashioned his personal celebration, YSRCP, in 2011 and performed a serious function in wiping out the Congress out from the state.
Regardless of a majority of the Congress base now with Jagan’s YSRCP, nonetheless, many in Rayalaseema stay loyal to the Grand Previous Celebration.
On Tuesday, as Rahul walked from the Halaharvi bus cease in Kurnool, he was joined by native celebration leaders and a whole bunch of employees carrying the Tricolour and the Congress flag.
“It was a privilege to obtain and stroll with him (Rahul),” mentioned N Uttam Kumar Reddy, the celebration’s former Telangana unit chief, who has been tasked with coordinating the Andhra Pradesh and Telangana leg of the march.
“1000’s of individuals from throughout Kurnool and close by districts got here and took part within the stroll. We’re very enthused by the great public response.’’
Alongside the way in which, Rahul additionally interacted with farmer delegations and expressed concern that many have been “desperately ready” for compensation “after changing into victims of displacement and resettlement.”
State Congress chief Dr Sake Sailajanath and dealing president Shaik Mastan additionally took half within the march, which halted for the evening at Chagi village close to Adoni.
Rahul’s Yatra had earlier, briefly, handed by Andhra Pradesh’s Anantapur district bordering Karnataka on October 14.
Scheduled to proceed in Andhra Pradesh until October 21, the march will once more enter Karnataka because it proceeds in the direction of Telangana.