Bharat Jodo Yatra Live Updates Today: Rahul Gandhi, accompanied by his sister Priyanka Gandhi, hoisted the Tricolour at Lal Chowk, after resuming his march from the city’s Pantha Chowk earlier in the day. It was Rahul’s great grandfather Jawaharlal Nehru, India’s first Prime Minister, who first unfurled the Tricolour at Lal Chowk in 1948 when the National Conference’s founder Sheikh Mohammad Abdullah declared his alliance with Nehru.
Earlier, the Congress party had said that Rahul will not hoist the flag at Lal Chowk, terming it as “RSS agenda”. Speaking about the change of plans, Jairam Ramesh said that earlier the party did not get permission to unfurl the flag anywhere other than the Congress headquarters, but “last evening, state administration allowed him (Rahul) to do so in Lal Chowk, but under condition that it should be done today on 29th at end of Bharat Jodo Yatra.”
Having covered a distance of 4,080 km across 75 districts of the country, starting from Kanyakumari on September 7, the Bharat Jodo Yatra is set to culminate at the Nehru Park in the Boulevard area of Srinagar on Sunday, news agency PTI reported. On Monday, the party will hold a public rally attended by opposition parties.
