Amidst sharpened battlelines forward of the 2024 Lok Sabha elections, all events on Sunday, Gandhi Jayanti, raced to make sure they have been seen on the identical aspect of 1 individual: Mahatma Gandhi.
Former Congress president Rahul Gandhi, who’s within the Karnataka leg of his 3,400-km Bharat Jodo Yatra, clocked in a go to to the Khadi Cooperative in Badanavalu village close to Mysuru, arrange by Gandhi.
In a Hindi tweet, he mentioned, “Bapu taught us to stroll on the trail of fact and non-violence. He defined the that means of affection, compassion, concord and humanity… At this time on Gandhi Jayanti, we take a pledge that simply as he united the nation in opposition to injustice, we are going to unite our India.”
Rahul has been emphasising that the intention of the yatra is to unite folks, versus the BJP’s agenda.
Congress chief Sonia Gandhi paid tributes at Mahatma Gandhi’s memorial at Raj Ghat in Delhi. Accompanying her by the way was senior social gathering chief Mallikarjun Kharge, who is about to contest the Congress presidential polls.
Whereas the social gathering has been denying so, Kharge is seen because the Gandhi family-backed candidate within the October 17 race, in opposition to Shashi Tharoor.
Kharge additionally visited the Vijay Ghat to pay homage to former Prime Minister Lal Bahadur Shastri, who shares his delivery anniversary with Gandhi. “One trait that each Gandhiji & Shastriji had in widespread was absolute resolve, which continues to encourage us,” Kharge mentioned in a tweet.
Tharoor made his Gandhi cease at Sevagram in Wardha, Maharashtra, the ashram the place Gandhi spent his last years. He referred to as the go to the launch of his marketing campaign for the social gathering presidential ballot.
“A shifting expertise to spend the morning of #GandhiJayanti in Sevagram, Wardha. Was awed to see his easy dwelling, the very cot through which he slept, the implements he used, the common-or-garden amenities there. Wrote my ideas within the guests’ e book,” he tweeted. Tharoor additionally shared movies of bhajans being sung on the ashram.
Earlier, in phrases rigorously chosen to pay a tribute to Gandhi but in addition to trace on the more and more uphill battle he’s himself dealing with, Tharoor tweeted: “First they ignore you, then they snort at you, then they battle you, then you definitely win.”
In her tweet, Congress basic secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra referred to the Bharat Jodo Yatra, saying: “Bapu is a Bharat Yatri sharing the sufferings of the folks of the nation and uniting the entire of India…At this time we’re strolling on the trail proven by Bapu with the slogan of ‘Bharat Jodo’ and with dedication and the torch of unity in hand.”
Prime Minister Narendra Modi, whose social gathering and authorities accuse the Congress of honouring some nationwide leaders to the exclusion of others, visited each the Raj Ghat and Vijay Ghat.
Paying homage to Gandhi Jayanti, Modi talked about this 12 months being “much more particular as a result of India is marking Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav (the Modi authorities’s celebration of 75 years of Indian Independence)”. “Could we at all times dwell as much as Bapu’s beliefs. I additionally urge you all to buy Khadi and handicraft merchandise as a tribute to Gandhi Ji,” he added.
In a video shared by the AAP’s social media deal with, Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal, who spent the day in Gujarat, talked about Gandhi’s goals for the nation within the fields of training, healthcare, high quality of life and brotherhood of individuals belonging to totally different religions, including: “Now we have united folks in Delhi and adjusted the nation. Now we have made the Republic meet its power.”
Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M Ok Stalin, who’s an ally of the Congress and flagged off Rahul’s Yatra, mentioned in a tweet: “On at the present time, the delivery anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi who labored arduous to beat adversities and to create a society with Equality and Fraternity, let’s take an oath to say there isn’t a place for the forces of hatred to thrive on this Gandhian soil.”
(with inputs from PTI)