Rahul’s 117 Bharat Jodo Yatris: The usual and not-so-unusual suspects | Political Pulse News,The Indian Express
Whoever showed interest… we interviewed them…. basically asked them whether they can walk 3,500 km… Are they free for five months: Digivijaya.
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HomePolitical PulseRahul’s 117 Bharat Jodo Yatris: The usual and not-so-unusual suspects
Rahul’s 117 Bharat Jodo Yatris: The usual and not-so-unusual suspects
Whoever showed interest… we interviewed them…. basically asked them whether they can walk 3,500 km… Are they free for five months: Digivijaya.
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New Delhi | Updated: September 2, 2022 7:48:19 am
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi arrives during the 'Bharat Jodo Yatra' conclave at Constitution Club, in New Delhi, Monday, Aug. 22, 2022. (PTI Photo)To walk 3,570 kilometres all the way from Kanyakumari to Kashmir over a period of five months may be an arduous task. But the 56-year-old Congress leader Vijay Kumar Shastri is excited that he would walk along with Rahul Gandhi as part of the Congress’s Bharat Jodo Yatra beginning September 7. Shastri is the oldest of the 117 Congress leaders from across the country who will walk with Rahul in this long mass-contact march.
“I may be in my fifties but my passion for the Congress remains high,” says Shastri, the vice president of the Jammu and Kashmir Congress’s Kisan cell.
The 25-year-old Youth Congress leader from Arunachal Pradesh, Ajam Jombla, is among the youngest of Rahul’s fellow yatris. Jombla also believes that Rahul is the leader the country needs.
Besides Shastri and Jombla, the list of the 117 yatris selected by the Congress include firebrand orator Kanhaiya Kumar, Congress media department head Pawan Khera, former Punjab minister Vijay Inder Singla, ex-Bihar MLA Amit Kumar Tunna, ex-Kerala chief minister Oommen Chandy’s son Chandy Oommen, Youth Congress leaders Pratibha Raghuwanshi and Sitaram Lamba, former Youth Congress president Keshav Chand Yadav, Uttarakhand Mahila Congress president Jyoto Rautela and AICC communications department secretary Vaibhav Walia, among others.
Senior Congress leader Digvijaya Singh, one of the main coordinators of the Bharat Jodo Yatra, said the All India Congress Committee (AICC) had asked the party’s frontal organisations, departments and Pradesh Congress Committees (PCCs) to send the names of the leaders who would be interested in participating in this march. Singh and senior leaders then interviewed all those who showed interest before shortlisting 117 of them.
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