As the Congress is gearing up for Rahul Gandhi’s ‘Bharat Jodo Yatra’, workers are put the finishing touches to the dais coming up on the shores of Kanniyakumari, with the confluence of the Indian Ocean, the Arabian Sea, and the Bay of Bengal in the backdrop, making it a Hollywood-like setting.
Congress leaders and workers have been arriving from across the country in batches at the tourist and pilgrimage centre on the southern tip of the country. Mr. Gandhi will start his yatra on September 8, but as a prelude, he would address a public rally, along with DMK president and Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M.K. Stalin, from this dais on September 7.
“The objective of the yatra is to protect the basic tenets of the Constitution that the BJP seeks to destroy. That is why, we will read the preamble of the Constitution in the Gandhi Mandapam at Kanniyakumari. We should keep in mind that Mahatma Gandhi was a believer and had a better understanding of the Hindu religion,” Tamil Nadu Congress Committee president K.S. Alagiri said, asked whether the yatra would achieve its purpose.
