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  • Watch! Rahul Gandhi gives flying kiss to crowd chanting ‘Modi, Modi’ during Bharat Jodo Yatra

    Watch! Rahul Gandhi gives flying kiss to crowd chanting ‘Modi, Modi’ during Bharat Jodo Yatra

    Currently leading the Bharat Jodo Yatra through Rajasthan, Congress MP Rahul Gandhi gave flying kiss to a crowd chanting ‘Modi, Modi’ slogans during the yatra. In the video, Rahul can be first seen waving at a crowd as chants praising Prime Minister Narendra Modi as the yatra passed through Agar Malwa district on Sunday.

    Rahul Gandhi, who was been leading the foot march from Kanyakumari to Kashmir, urged his fellow Yatris to wave back to the crowd and gave a flying kiss to those raising the slogans.

    The Bharat Jodo Yatra in the Congress-ruled Rajasthan was started on Monday morning. The yatra commenced from Kali Talai in Jhalrapatan in Jhalawar and was joined by Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot, PCC chief Govind Singh Dotasra, former deputy chief minister Sachin Pilot, ministers and other MLAs.

    Tight security arrangements have been made for the yatra by the police authorities.

    The yatra covered around 14 km and reached Baliborda chauraha at around 10 am. The yatra restarted after the lunch break from Nahardi at 3.30 pm. The yatra will take a break in Jhalawar for a night stay.

    Rajasthan CM Ashok Gehlot has accused the media of not covering the Yatra after Gandhi entered the Rajasthan. He said that media is “boycotting” the Bharat Jodo Yatra, and that BJP might be worried because of Gandhi’s initiative to connect with the masses.

    Gehlot mentioned social media as the fourth pillar state and to those blocking the coverage, he said that the country won’t forgive.

    Rahul Gandhi’s Rajasthan visit comes after Gehlot called Sachin Pilot “gaddar (traitor)” in an interview with a news channel. However, the party had put up a show of unity on Sunday as both Gehlot and Pilot welcomed Gandhi.

    The Bharat Jodo Yatra has already covered 2,500 km across seven states. As per Jairam Ramesh, nearly 1,200 km of the foot march is still left, which will be covered over the next few weeks.
     

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  • Bharat Jodo Yatra: Boy gifts piggy bank to Rahul Gandhi in Madhya Pradesh

    Bharat Jodo Yatra: Boy gifts piggy bank to Rahul Gandhi in Madhya Pradesh

    Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Sunday took to Twitter to share a video of a boy giving him his piggy bank during the Bharat Jodo Yatra in Madhya Pradesh. “Sacrifice and selflessness are values inculcated during childhood,” he said, adding, that the piggy bank is “invaluable” to him.

    In the video, the boy identified as Yashraj Parmar, is seen walking with him and can be heard saying he likes Rahul Gandhi because he takes everyone along. The boy also says that the piggy bank can be used during the yatra, if required. “I saved the money from my pocket money only,” he said.

    “According to my understanding of this yatra, it is to end the animosity between Hindu-Muslim and bring everyone together,” the boy stated.

    Meanwhile, recently Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) IT cell head Amit Malviya had posted a video of the yatra in which Rahul Gandhi, party general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra and Madhya Pradesh Congress president Kamal Nath are seen walking and a voice purportedly shouting “Pakistan Zindabad” is heard.

    “After Richa Chaddha’s public application to join Rahul Gandhi’s Bharat “Jodo” Yatra, “Pakistan Zindabad” (listen towards the end of the video) slogans raised in Khargon,” he said. “This is Congress’ truth,” he added.

    After Richa Chaddha’s public application to join Rahul Gandhi’s Bharat “Jodo” Yatra, “Pakistan Zindabad” (listen towards the end of the video) slogans raised in Khargon.

    Amidst this, senior Congress leader Digvijaya Singh on Sunday demanded that the man who made the “doctored” video of the slogan-shouting be identified and arrested.

    Also Read: Rahul Gandhi performs aarti at Narmada ghat; Smriti Irani takes a dig at Congress leader

     

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  • Rahul Gandhi performs aarti at Narmada ghat; Smriti Irani takes a dig at Congress leader

    Rahul Gandhi performs aarti at Narmada ghat; Smriti Irani takes a dig at Congress leader

    Union minister for Women and Child Development Smriti Irani on Friday took a potshot at Congress leader Rahul Gandhi and posted his upside-down picture on Twitter while performing aarti at Narmada Ghat in Khargone, Madhya Pradesh. Rahul Gandhi and his sister Priyanka Gandhi Vadra were in Madhya Pradesh’s Khandwa district on Friday where they performed ‘aarti’ at the Bramhapuri Ghat. They also offered prayers at the famous Omkareshwar Temple on a hillock by the river that houses one of the 12 ‘jyotirlingas’. 

    Irani, who is in Surat to address the party’s women wing workers as part of the campaign for the Gujarat Assembly elections, tweeted Gandhi’s picture where he can be seen wearing an uttariya, a religious scarf, with Om written on it in an upside-down manner.   

    Earlier in the day, the union minister targeted Congress leader Rahul Gandhi over alleged shouting of the slogan `Pakistan Zindabad’ during his ongoing Bharat Jodo Yatra. Gandhi blamed the BJP for tampering with a video of the Yatra in which someone is purportedly heard shouting the slogan `Pakistan Zindabad’.  

    Irani said: “Pakistan Zindabad slogans were shouted during Rahul Gandhi’s Bharat Jodo Yatra. This is not the first time someone has insulted India during the former Congress president’s Yatra. I want to ask Rahul Gandhi how many more such persons you will take along in your caravan?”  

    Irani vs Gandhi 

    Irani has time to time criticised Rahul Gandhi’s leadership and policies. Earlier this month while addressing a rally in Himachal Pradesh, Irani said ever since she dispatched Rahul Gandhi from Amethi, he has been running around the country trying to connect the country. 

    In the 2019 General Elections, Irani defeated Gandhi in Amethi, a Congress stronghold for decades. She won by over 55,000 votes – delivering a massive shock to the Congress as the party had never lost from Amethi. During her recent visit to Amethi in November, the union minister said: “The people blessed Rahul Gandhi and the Gandhi family by electing them as public representatives from Amethi (previously). But, they gave nothing to the people except deceit and just one glimpse in five years,” she said.

    Bharat Jodo Yatra 

    Congress’s Bharat Jodo Yatra is an ongoing mass movement where Rahul Gandhi is trying to mobilise the party cadre and the general public. The Yatra is from Kanyakumari (the southern tip of the peninsula) to the union territory of Jammu and Kashmir (JK). It will cover a distance of 3,570 kilometres over 150 days. 

    Priyanka Gandhi had for the first time joined the Yatra this week. Her family also joined her for the aarti at the Narmada river.

     

       

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