Responding to the call given by the Karnataka Pradesh Congress Committee, B.R. Patil, former Deputy Chairman of the Legislative Council, would launch the party’s Pada Yatra at Jidga in the Aland Assembly segment on Tuesday as part of the party’s celebration of 75 years of India’s freedom.
Addressing a press conference at the local party office in Kalaburagi on Sunday, he said that he had chosen the date to commemorate Mahatma Gandhi’s call for Quit India movement in 1942.
As per the details shared by Mr. Patil, the Pada Yatra would begin from different places in the Aland Assembly constituency every morning and end at Aland town in the evening covering many villages en-route.
