Gandhi marched via the streets together with Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot and former deputy Sachin Pilot
Kota (Rajasthan): Congress chief Rahul Gandhi on Thursday briefly interacted with college students who had gathered in giant numbers on this teaching hub to welcome him as he resumed his Bharat Jodo Yatra.
Gandhi described the scholars because the “way forward for India” and exhorted these gathered to lift “Bharat Jodo” slogans.
Beginning the 92nd day of his yatra by providing prayers on the Suryamukhi Hanuman Temple right here at 6 am, Gandhi marched via the streets together with Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot and former deputy Sachin Pilot.
After marching for round 2.5 km from Suryamukhi Hanuman temple, Gandhi reached Rajiv Gandhi Nagar, the place he was welcomed by college students of teaching institutes.
He climbed up a stage erected for him on the roadside and spoke briefly with the scholars, director of a distinguished teaching institute, who was accompanying the scholars, mentioned.
Apart from college students, occasion employees and locals have been lined up on either side of the highway from Jagpura to airport, a stretch of round 12.5 km to welcome him
Gandhi was earlier scheduled to pay tributes on the statue of his father Rajiv Gandhi on the Rajiv Gandhi Nagar right here.
He’ll march 24 km to achieve the subsequent yatra cease at Gudali in Bundi district, the place the march is ready to take a one-day break on Friday.
Rajasthan is the one Congress-ruled state the place the yatra has entered and can cowl about 500 km passing via Jhalawar, Kota, Bundi, Sawai Madhopur, Dausa and Alwar districts over 17 days earlier than coming into Haryana on December 21.
The yatra began from Kanyakumari in Tamil Nadu on September 7 and has up to now lined the 5 southern states of Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, and Telangana, after which traversed via Maharashtra and Madhya Pradesh.
It is going to conclude in Jammu and Kashmir in early February 2023, protecting 3,570 km in 150 days.
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