Congress chief Rahul Gandhi claimed that the continued ‘Bharat Jodo Yatra’, which entered New Delhi on Saturday and halted on the iconic Crimson Fort, has been a reproduction of India the place there was no hatred and violence and all of the folks and animals – together with canines, cows, buffaloes and pigs – had been welcomed.
“In Bharat Jodo Yatra, canines additionally got here however nobody harmed them. Cow, buffaloes, pigs, all animals got here. All of the folks got here. This yatra is like our India, I’ve not seen any hatred or violence amongst folks whereas strolling 2,800 km, and I’ve not seen violence or hatred anyplace within the nation. However after I activate the TV, there’s hatred on a regular basis. 24 hours there’s solely Hindu-Muslim in media.”
Gandhi blasted the Bharatiya Janata Get together (BJP) for allegedly spreading Hindu-Muslim hatred to divert consideration from the actual points.
“It isn’t Narendra Modi’s authorities. All your cash, the cash of farmers and labourers, airports, ports, and roads go straight to the pockets of their masters. It’s Ambani and Adani authorities. Hindu-Muslim is being completed to divert consideration from the actual points. At present diploma holder youths are promoting ‘pakoras’,” stated the Congress MP from Wayanad stated from Crimson Fort the place Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge and actor-turned-politician Kamal Hassan had been additionally current.
“The BJP spent hundreds of crores to wreck my picture. Once I got here to politics in 2004, our authorities got here to energy and the media used to reward me all through the day. They used to do Rahul Gandhi…Rahul Gandhi all of the day. Then I went to Bhatta Parsaul (in UP) and raised the difficulty of farmers’ land they usually turned in opposition to me,” he stated.
On the event, Kharge stated the BJP feared the Bharat Jodo Yatra and needed to cease the march giving the excuse of Covid.
“The BJP is in concern resulting from Bharat Jodo Yatra and is taking the excuse of Covid. There is no such thing as a Covid anyplace. Nothing occurred to anybody. PM Modi himself doesn’t put on a masks. All that is being completed to create concern and break this yatra,” Kharge claimed.
Kamal Haasan stated, “Many individuals ask me why I’m right here. I’m right here as an Indian. My father was a Congressman. I had numerous ideologies and began my very own political get together. However in the case of the nation, all political get together strains must blur. I blurred that line and got here right here. I stood in entrance of the mirror and stated to myself, that is when the nation wants me essentially the most. Then a voice got here from inside me – ‘Kamal… don’t assist break India, assist unite.”
Bharat Jodo Yatra entered the nationwide capital on Saturday morning. Former Congress president Sonia Gandhi, get together’s common secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadhra additionally joined the yatra.
Priyanka Gandhi’s husband Robert Vadra additionally joined. This was be the final day of the yatra on this part because it goes a nine-day break until subsequent yr.
(With inputs from companies)