Andhra Pradesh Congress Committee (APCC) president Gidugu Rudra Raju on September 5 (Tuesday) claimed that party leader Rahul Gandhi’s Bharat Jodo Yatra had turned the situation around in favour of the party, and informed that State-wide yatras would be organised on September 7 to mark the first anniversary of the country-wide mass contact programme.
Addressing the media at the party office here, Mr. Rudra Raju said, following instructions from All India Congress Committee (AICC) president Mallikarjun Kharge, ‘Jodo Yatras’ would be organised across the 26 districts in the State from 5 p.m. to 6 p.m., and the party leaders, working committee members and volunteers from NSUI, Young Congress and Seva Dal would take active part in them.
Mr. Rudra Raju said that for the first time in the country’s political history, Mr. Rahul Gandhi had covered a distance of 4,081 km from Kashmir to Kanyakumari in 136 days and interacted with crores of people to get a first-hand account of their problems.
