Congress chief Rahul Gandhi will start the 21-day Karnataka leg of his Bharat Jodo Yatra Friday and is ready to journey by foot 511 kilometres in seven districts of the state earlier than coming into Telangana. The Congress state unit will look to make full use of the yatra to galvanise its members and collect help among the many public forward of the Legislative Meeting election.
The yatra will enter Gundlupet within the Chamarajanagar district Friday and can march by means of Mysuru, Mandya, Tumakuru, Chitradurga, Ballari and Raichur districts. Congress president Sonia Gandhi is anticipated to participate in a large rally in Ballari whereas All India Congress Committee (AICC) normal secretary Priyanka Gandhi will possible work together with girls in Mandya district.
On Gandhi Jayanthi (October 2), Rahul Gandhi will keep at Badanavalu village of Mysuru district, which was as soon as identified for its khadi trade. Mahatma Gandhi visited the khadi manufacturing centre there twice, in 1927 and 1932.
The Karnataka Congress will look to up the ante in opposition to numerous cases of alleged corruption by the BJP authorities within the state. It has made clear that corruption, unemployment, inflation and farmer misery can be among the many key points raised throughout Rahul Gandhi’s yatra.
Other than sitting MLAs and candidates who misplaced elections from their constituencies in 2018, Congress leaders from neighbouring states are additionally anticipated to participate within the yatra.
In response to Congress leaders, 15,000 to twenty,000 supporters will march with Rahul each day. The state Congress has directed all sub-units to make sure this quantity and in addition registered folks on-line be a part of the yatra.
The state Congress has deliberate interactions with academics, artists, attorneys, writers, college students, girls and youth teams. In Chamarajanagar, Rahul will work together with the households of Covid victims who perished as a consequence of an alleged lack of oxygen on the district hospital.
In the meantime, the Kerala leg of the Bharat Jodo Yatra ended at Vazhikkadavu in Malappuram Thursday and Rahul Gandhi thanked the Congress employees within the state for his or her help. Rahul and his associates are set to proceed to Gudalur in Tamil Nadu earlier than coming into Karnataka.
The three,570-km, 150-day foot march began from Kanyakumari in Tamil Nadu on September 7 and can conclude in Jammu and Kashmir.