After six days in Punjab, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi’s Bharat Jodo Yatra on Wednesday entered Himachal Pradesh where Chief Minister Sukhwinder Singh Sukhu and state party President Pratibha Singh, among other party leaders, welcomed the day-long leg of the march in the state.
The flag handover ceremony was held on the border village of Ghatota in the hill state. On entering the state, Rahul Gandhi said: “You had asked that yatra should pass through Himachal Pradesh. We changed the entire route.
“We gave little time to Himachal Pradesh, only one day, more time should have been given.”He added the yatra has to reach Srinagar on January 30, the death anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi.
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Pratibha Singh told the senior Congress leader that she had assured during a meeting in Delhi before the Assembly elections that “Himachal Pradesh aapki jholi mein aayega (Congress will win Himachal Pradesh elections)”.
“The beginning has been made in Dev Bhoomi and similarly we will hoist the Congress flag in every state,” she added.
Early this month after completing the second phase in Haryana, the Bharat Jodo Yatra under the leadership of Rahul Gandhi moved from Ambala to Punjab.
The yatra traveled 255 km, and covered seven districts in eight days in Haryana. Rahul Gandhi offered prayers at the Golden Temple in Amritsar, a day ahead of the start of the Punjab leg of the Bharat Jodo Yatra.
He landed at the Amritsar airport after concluding the Haryana leg of the march in the Ambala district. Donning a turban, Gandhi paid obeisance at the sanctum sanctorum of the Golden Temple.
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