Team News Riveting
Amritsar, January 10
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday offered prayers at the Golden Temple in Amritsar, a day ahead starting the Punjab leg of his Bharat Jodo Yatra.
The former Congress President landed at the Amritsar airport Tuesday afternoon after concluding the Haryana leg of the march in Ambala district. Yatra covered 255 km in Haryana during eight days crossing seven districts.
Sporting a turban, Gandhi paid obeisance at the sanctum sanctorum of the Golden Temple. He was accompanied by Punjab Congress chief Amrinder Singh Raja Warring, Leader of Opposition Partap Singh Bajwa, local MP Gurjit Singh Aujla and other party leaders.
The visit of Rahul Gandhi was kept secret as several Punjab Congress leaders till Tuesday morning were not aware of Gandhi’s visit to Amritsar. Though Congress General Secretary in-charge Communications, Jairam Ramesh had told reporters earlier in the day in Ambala that Gandhi will be going to the Golden Temple.
After his Amritsar visit, Gandhi returned to Sirhind in Fatehgarh Sahib today evening.
Earlier in the morning, Gandhi resumed the foot march from Shahpur in Ambala Cantt during which he was also joined by party leader Raj Babbar. The Yatra had entered Haryana’s Panipat from neighbouring Uttar Pradesh on Thursday last and later it also passed through Karnal and Kurukshetra districts before concluding in Ambala district.
Bharat Jodo Yatra started from Kanyakumari in Tamil Nadu on September 7 and will conclude in Srinagar by January 30 with Gandhi hoisting the national flag in the summer capital of Jammu and Kashmir.
The march has so far covered Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Delhi, Uttar Pradesh and Haryana.
