Congress leader Rahul Gandhi was all praise for Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Sukhwinder Singh Sukhu and the people of the hill state as he walked around 18 km during the day-long leg of his Bharat Jodo Yatra in parts of Kangra district. He called Sukhu ‘zameeni aadmi’ (down-to-earth man) and equated the people of the state with mountains which were “strong but calm”. Addressing a gathering in Malot near Indora in Kangra district Wednesday after finishing the yatra for the day, Gandhi also hit out at the BJP for “spreading hatred, violence and fear” and slammed the opposition party on the issues of inflation, unemployment, demonetization, GST, Agniveer and farmers’ issues. He also accused the BJP of capturing government institutions and said the only way left was to hit roads to highlight those issues.
Ahead of the Rahul Gandhi led Bharat Jodo Yatra (BJY) entering the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir (J&K), Congress spokesperson Deepika Pushkar Nath has resigned in protest against the party accepting the proposal of Dogra Swabhiman Sangathan founder Choudhary Lal Singh to join the foot march at Lakhanpur.
Pointing out that she was quitting the party on “ideological grounds”, she said Lal Singh, a former state minister, was responsible for “sabotaging the legal case” in the 2018 gang rape and murder, “by brazenly defendng” the rapists and murderers of an eight-year-old Bakerwali tribal girl in the forests of Rasana in Kathua district.
AICC in-charge of Jammu & Kashmir and party MP Rajni Patil said here Tuesday that Rahul Gandhi will hoist the Tricolour at the Congress headquarters in Srinagar on January 30, and not the Lal Chowk, saying unfurling it there was part of “the RSS agenda”.
“We do not believe in the agenda of the RSS to hoist the Tricolour at Lal Chowk, where it has already flown high,” Patil said when asked about the plan for Rahul to hoist the national flag on the culmination of the Bharat Jodo Yatra on January 30.
The main function to mark the culmination of the Yatra will be held at Sher-i-Kashmir International Convention Centre (SKICC), Srinagar.
National Student's Union of India (NSUI) president Isherpreet Singh on Saturday met Congress leader Rahul Gandhi during the Bharat Jodo Yatra and apprised him of the struggle of Paralympic players of Punjab.
According to an NSUI statement, Rahul Gandhi encouraged and assured them that he stands firmly with them. "Met and told the struggle of Paralympic players of Punjab to Rahul Gandhi Ji during the Bharat Jodo Yatra where he encouraged and assured that he stands firmly with them. As Nsui Punjab President I stand strong with them till they get their rights.#bharatjodoyatra," NSUI said in a tweet.
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"We will help them at every step like we have done in the past through various protests," an NSUI statement said. (ANI)
Shiv Sena (UBT) leader Sanjay Raut on Saturday said Congress leader Rahul Gandhi leading the Bharat Jodo Yatra is capable to be the prime minister of India and no third front will be successful sans the grand old party.
He said the purpose of Gandhi's Yatra from Kanyakumari to Kashmir is to remove the hatred and fear and not to unite the opposition parties under the banner of his party. “Ideological and political differences apart, he (Gandhi) will show his leadership qualities and will be a big challenge (for the ruling BJP in 2024 general elections). He will make a miracle,” the Member of Parliament told news agency PTI.
Raut, who walked for nearly 13-km alongside Gandhi between Hatli Morh and Chandwal amid rain on Friday, said the BJP has spread a wrong notion about the Congress leader but this Yatra has busted all their myths about him. (PTI)
As the Bharat Jodo Yatra enters its final stretch in Jammu and Kashmir, Union Minister Jitendra Singh has taken on the task of denigrating the Indian National Congress and the yatra ('A wayward yatra and Kashmir', The Indian Express, January 20). In the process, he has joined a long list of BJP ‘distorians’ who use a selective reading of history and fabrication of current reality to promote the BJP’s dystopian vision. In a desperate attempt to distract from the government’s colossal failures, decimation of institutions, and rampant cronyism, Singh misrepresents an endeavor that is about unifying the country, promoting harmony, and defending the Constitution. Nevertheless, in true BJP fashion, he hides more than he reveals. The BJP wants us to live in a reimagined past. The Bharat Jodo Yatra is about our future.
Singh regurgitates the usual talking points of the BJP on Article 370. There is nothing new there. The important constitutional question about the abrogation of Article 370 is with the Supreme Court. When Singh bashes Nehru for not allowing Sardar Patel to deal with Jammu and Kashmir the way he dealt with other princely states, he conveniently omits the fact that Patel once mooted the idea of giving Kashmir to Pakistan in exchange for Hyderabad. In calling the inclusion of Article 370 in the Constitution “misguided”, Singh manages to insult all our founders including Babasaheb Ambedkar, Sardar Patel, and even Syama Prasad Mookerjee, the founder of the Jana Sangh. Unless, of course, the BJP believes that the Constitution was the work of one supreme individual who towered over everyone else. Read the Express Opinion by Amitabh Dubey and Salman Soz
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Saturday congratulated Kerala's Wayanad on becoming India's first district to digitise basic documents of all tribals.
He lauded the collective efforts of district admin, local bodies, and people's representatives for the initiative.
"An empowered tribal community is the cornerstone of a strong India,' Rahul, who represents Wayanad in Lok Sabha, wrote on Twitter. 'Proud that Wayanad is India's 1st district to provide & digitise basic documents for all Tribals," he added.
Congress General Secretary KC Venugopal Saturday said Bharat Jodo Yatra will continue despite the twin blasts in the Nawal area of Jammu earlier in the day.
Venugopal, while talking to news agency ANI said two weeks before the march entered Jammu and Kashmir, he had met J&K L-G Manoj Sinha to discuss the Bharat Jodo Yatra's J&K leg. "Two weeks before the yatra began, I met J&K L-G in connection with the Yatra. All our leaders in J&K are in constant touch with the security personnel," Venugopal said.
"Bharat Jodo yatra will continue no matter what," Venugopal told ANI when asked about the impact of J&K twin blasts on the Yatra. "It is their responsibility to take care of such incidents," he added.
Just two days before Congress leader Rahul Gandhi-led Bharat Jodo Yatra is scheduled to reach Jammu, two back-to-back explosions at Narwal Transport Nagar’s Yard No 7 in Jammu on Saturday, leaving nine people injured, officials said.
Additional Director General of Police, Jammu, Mukesh Singh, confirmed the incident.
The injured have been rushed to the Government Medical College Hospital, where the condition of one of them is said to be serious. Read more
The winter rain in Jammu on Friday forced Congress leader Rahul Gandhi to shun his ‘white T-shirt look’ for some time and wear a black windcheater as he resumed his Bhatat Jodo Yatra in the Union Territory.
As photographs of Rahul wearing a windcheater in the rain went viral, a sort of debate started on social media whether the winter chill in Jammu had finally made the Congress leader “shiver and cover himself up”. To set the debate at rest, Indian Youth Congress national president Srinivas B V tweeted that there was a “difference between a raincoat and a jacket”. Read more
The last leg of the Bharat Jodo Yatra took a halt on Saturday and would resume on Sunday morning from Kathua in Jammu and Kashmir.
The Congress on Saturday released the logo of 'Haath Se Haath Jodo Abhiyan' and a "chargesheet" against the central government led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Addressing a press conference in New Delhi, Congress General Secretary KC Venugopal said that the campaign has been launched to spread the message of the Rahul Gandhi-led Bharat Jodo Yatra.
"Respective Pradesh Congress Committees (PCCs) will make 'chargesheets' and if needed against respective state governments," Venugopal said.
Coming down heavily on the central government, the Congress General Secretary said that the party would address the pain of the people caused by the Modi government's "misrule".
"After 130 days of this historic programme (Bharat Jodo Yatra), Congress got enough inputs from the people of the country while walking lakhs of people talked to Rahul Gandhi. We can understand the pain which they are in due to the misrule of the Modi government," he stated. (ANI)
The Congress on Saturday released the logo of 'Haath Se Haath Jodo Abhiyan' which will take place for two months starting on January 26.
Addressing a press conference in New Delhi, Congress General Secretary KC Venugopal said that the campaign has been launched to spread the message of the Rahul Gandhi-led Bharat Jodo Yatra.
"Haath Se Haath Jodo Abhiyan' will begin on Jan 26 - a house-to-house campaign to spread the message of the Bharat Jodo Yatra to common people," Venugopal said.
Earlier, addressing a press conference in Jammu & Kashmir's Kathua, Congress' Jairam Ramesh said that the door-to-door canvas of Congress would reach every house in the 10 lakh polling booths of 6 lakh villages and 2.5 lakh gram panchayats.
"The 'Haath Se Haath Jodo' campaign will be held from January 26 to March 26. The Congress workers will do door-to-door canvassing and will reach out to every single house in 10 lakh polling booths of 6 lakh villages and 2.5 lakh gram panchayats," Congress MP Jairam Ramesh said. (ANI)
Taking a jibe at the Modi government, Congress General Secraraty KC Venugopal on Saturday said that after 130 days of the ‘historic’ Bharat Jodo Yatra, they could understand the people’s pain due to the misrule of Modi government. “After 130 days of this historic program (Bharat Jodo Yatra), Congress got enough input from the people of the country. While walking lakhs of people talked to Rahul Gandhi. We can understand their pain which they are in due to misrule of Modi Government,” he was quoted saying by news agency ANI.
Congress' national spokesperson Jairam Ramesh on Friday said that the party's 'Haath Se Haath Jodo' campaign will take place for two months, starting on January 26.
Addressing a press conference in Jammu and Kashmir's Kathua, Ramesh said that the door-to-door canvas of Congress would reach every house in the 10 lakh polling booths of the 6 lakh villages and 2.5 lakh gram panchayats.
"The 'Haath Se Haath Jodo' campaign will be held from January 26 to March 26. The Congress workers will do door-to-door canvassing and will reach out to every single house in 10 lakh polling booths of 6 lakh villages and 2.5 lakh gram panchayats," Congress MP Jairam Ramesh said.
Under the rubric of Haath Se Haath Jodo Abhiyaan, the party aims to cover about 2.5 lakh gram panchayats, 6 lakh villages, and over 10 lakh polling stations to hand over this letter.
Congress leader and general secretary (Communications) Jairam Ramesh in the national capital on January 13 briefed mediapersons about the Bharat Jodo Yatra's follow-up programme Haath Se Haath Jodo, from January 26 to March 26, and said that during the programme party workers will go door-to-door and handover Rahul Gandhi's letter to people.
During the follow-up campaign, the party is mulling distributing Congress leader Rahul Gandhi's letter and a chargesheet, listing failures of the BJP government, among the general public. (PTI)
Dogra Swabhiman Sangathan chairman Choudhary Lal Singh, whose decision to join the Bharat Jodo Yatra has brought the Jammu and Kashmir leg of Rahul Gandhi’s march under a cloud, has been with both the Congress and BJP and never been far from controversy.
It’s his support for the accused in the 2018 gangrape and murder of an eight-year-old tribal Bakerwal girl in Kathua that is now being used by opponents to attack the Yatra.
A minister in the then BJP-PDP government at the time, Lal Singh had joined a rally organised by the family members of the accused, along with senior Cabinet colleague Chander Parkash Ganga, and supported their demand for a CBI probe into the matter. (Read More)
As Bharat Jodo Yatra, led by Rahul Gandhi, entered the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir, the National Conference leader Farooq Abdullah likened the Congress MP with the Vedic scholar, Adi Shankaracharya.
This is for the second time during the foot march that Rahul Gandhi has been compared to a figure on a high pedestal -- first with Lord Ram and now Shankaracharya.
Drawing parallels while addressing the public meeting in Jammu and Kashmir's Lakhanpur, Abdullah, who served as the Chief Minister when Jammu and Kashmir was a state, said that Rahul Gandhi is the first person after Shankaracharya to have undertaken a yatra from Kanyakumari to Kashmir.
"Centuries ago Shankaracharya came here. He walked when there were no roads but jungles. He had walked from Kanyakumari to Kashmir. Rahul Gandhi is the second person who took out a yatra from the same Kanyakumari and is reaching Kashmir," Abdullah said. The octogenarian leader further said that the aim of this yatra is to unite India. (PTI)
Rahul Gandhi-led Bharat Jodo Yatra reached Jammu and Kashmir's Kathua district on January 20. The Yatra has taken a one-day break on January 21 and will proceed from Kathua tomorrow morning. Several Congress leaders, including the party's Jammu and Kashmir unit president Vikar Rasool Wani and his predecessor G A Mir, accompanied Gandhi during the final leg of the Bharat Jodo Yatra. Gandhi was also joined by Shiv Sena (UBT's) leader Sanjay Raut on Friday.
The march, which started from Kanyakumari on September 7, is in its final phase. It is scheduled to culminate in Srinagar with Gandhi hoisting the national flag at the party headquarters on January 30.
Shiv Sena MP Sanjay Raut joined the last leg of the Bharat Jodo Yatra in Jammu on Friday and said an Opposition front without the Congress would be meaningless and that only Rahul Gandhi could challenge Prime Minister Narendra Modi in 2024 and end the BJP’s “dictatorial regime”.
“The Opposition parties are trying to come together under a single banner. Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao seems to have taken an initiative in this direction. At a meeting convened by Rao, Akhilesh Yadav, Arvind Kejriwal and Pinarayi Vijayan were present. But these leaders are heading regional parties and trying to keep the Congress away. Why are they afraid of the Congress? By keeping the Congress away, forging Opposition unity is impossible,” Raut told The Indian Express after walking a good 12 km. (Read More)
The ill-conceived “Bharat Jodo Yatra” led by Rahul Gandhi cannot redeem the Congress party’s missed opportunity in Kashmir. Beginning from the dawn of independence, for over six decades to follow, the Congress leadership had an opportunity which it squandered through a series of self-righteous retrogressive experiments, starting from what history records as the infamous “Nehruvian” blunder.
Now that the course correction has been effectively accomplished by Prime Minister Narendra Modi by abrogating Article 370, exercising zero tolerance against Pakistan-sponsored terrorism, and mainstreaming Jammu and Kashmir not only physically but even in the hearts and minds, the Congress has once again sought to rekindle the inglorious past in a vain bid to revive Rahul Gandhi’s extinct. Sanjay Singh writes
The Bharatiya Janata Party on Friday mocked Shiv Sena (UBT) leader Sanjay Raut for taking part in the Rahul Gandhi-led 'Bharat Jodo Yatra' and said the more he walks with the Congress leader, the more the doors of victory will close for Uddhav Thackeray's outfit.
'He should walk fearlessly with Rahul Gandhi. The more Sanjay Raut walks with Rahul Gandhi, the more the doors of victory will get closed for Uddhavji's Sena,' Mumbai BJP chief Ashish Shelar said in Mumbai.
Shelar said Raut was 'hiding in an alley in Prabhadevi' (where the office of Shiv Sena (UBT) mouthpiece 'Saamana' is situated) when 'karsevaks' were sacrificing their lives in the Ramjanmabhoomi movement (for a Ram Temple in Ayodhya). (PTI)
Entering Jammu and Kashmir in the last leg of his Bharat Jodo Yatra, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Thursday invoked his connection with the land, saying his ancestors had moved from Kashmir to Uttar Pradesh and he felt he was “returning home”.
He said he had come here to share the pain and agony of the people of J&K. “I know how much pain the people of Jammu and Kashmir have faced. I understand it… Everybody has got hurt, everybody has suffered,” he said while addressing a crowd that had gathered in huge numbers at the entry point to J&K from Pathankot-Punjab to receive him. Read more
The Congress wants to take the Bharat Jodo Yatra, led by Rahul Gandhi, through the interiors of the Kashmir valley, but has left the decision on the route of the foot march to security agencies and the Jammu and Kashmir administration, party leader Chetan Chauhan said in Srinagar.
"We have carried out reconnaissance and submitted two routes -- one through the national highway and another through the interiors of Kashmir. Now it is up to security officials and the administration whether they will allow us or not," Chauhan told news agency PTI as the yatra entered Jammu and Kashmir on Thursday.
He said the Congress has not released the yatra's route plan in Kashmir due to security reasons. (PTI)
Jammu & Kashmir Pradesh Congress Commitee president and former MLA Vikar Rasool Wani Friday said the BJP-led Central government has snatched away the land and livelihoods of the residents of Jammu & Kashmir.
Wani, while addressing a press meet during the Bharat Jodo Yatra, said, "If any government has committed atrocities in Jammu and Kashmir, then it is the BJP government in the past 8-9 years. The BJP government has not done a single work in the interest of the people, all the work is pending."
"The daily wage labourers here are on the streets for the last 6-7 years," he said, adding, "Unemployment and rising costs of commodities has made it difficult for us to lead our lives smoothly."
Wani also appealed the gathering to support Rahul Gandhi and his "noble motive" of Bharat Jodo Yatra.
Several gallantry award winners, including Param Vir Chakra awardee Captain Bana Singh, joined the Bharat Jodo Yatra on Friday.
'Whenever there is talk of protecting India and its ideals, the names of brave sons of the country like Bana Singh are taken. Captain Bana Singh, a Paramveer Chakra winner who hoisted the tricolor on the icy heights of Siachen, is an inspiration to me and every patriot,' senior Congress leader Rahul Gandhi tweeted.
Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha on Friday said all necessary security arrangements have been made for the Jammu and Kashmir leg of the Bharat Jodo Yatra led by Congress leader Rahul Gandhi.
The march entered Kashmir on Thursday and will culminate with a rally in Srinagar on January 30.
“There will be no problem from the security point of view for the yatra. All security arrangements have been made,” Sinha told reporters after laying the foundation stone of a mega housing project for Kashmir migrant employees under PM package at Zewan, 12 km from here. (PTI)
Braving winter rains in Jammu and Kashmir, Rahul Gandhi donned a black raincoat over a white T-shirt.today The yatra was scheduled to start at 7 am but was delayed by an hour and fifteen minutes apparently due to the rains. Many Congress activists and supporters carrying tricolours turned up a couple of hours before the start of the yatra which will cover 25 km before halting at Chadwal in the Kathua district for the night. There will be no march on Saturday.
The ill-conceived “Bharat Jodo Yatra” led by Rahul Gandhi cannot redeem the Congress party’s missed opportunity in Kashmir. Beginning from the dawn of independence, for over six decades to follow, the Congress leadership had an opportunity which it squandered through a series of self-righteous retrogressive experiments, starting from what history records as the infamous “Nehruvian” blunder.
Now that the course correction has been effectively accomplished by Prime Minister Narendra Modi by abrogating Article 370, exercising zero tolerance against Pakistan-sponsored terrorism, and mainstreaming Jammu and Kashmir not only physically but even in the hearts and minds, the Congress has once again sought to rekindle the inglorious past in a vain bid to revive Rahul Gandhi’s extinct political career. Read more
Shiv Sena leader has joined Rahul Gandhi's Bharat Jodo Yatra in Jammu and Kashmir.Shiv Sena (UBT) leader Sanjay Raut said, "I have come to join the Yatra on behalf of my party. The atmosphere in the country is changing fast and I am seeing Gandhi as a leader who is raising his voice on real issues." "The way people are connecting with this yatra is heartwarming. He is a leader and that is why he is on the roads. The people will choose (who would be their leader), he added.
He is scheduled to meet a Sikh delegation in the evening according to the schedule tweeted out by him. The Bharat Jodo Yatra has commenced its last leg in Kashmir and is supposed to conclude on January 30.
Union Minister Jitendra Singh on Thursday alleged that the Congress' Bharat Jodo Yatra only betrays their discomfiture with normalcy having returned to Jammu and Kashmir because the party and its allies have developed a "vested interest" in the continuation of terrorism and unrest to ensure they continue to thrive by getting elected, generation after generation.
He said the common man walking on the streets of Srinagar wants to be a part of the India journey led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi and after having come out of a nightmare of three decades, he is not ready to be thrown back into the same mayhem of violence and destruction.
Singh, the Minister of State for Personnel, said Congress leader Rahul Gandhi and his colleagues should read the history and take a cue from the Ekta yatra taken out by the BJP in early 1992 which culminated in hoisting of the tricolor at Lal Chowk in Srinagar. "The intent of that yatra was to send out a message across the country and also internationally that nationalist forces in India would never allow J&K to be separated from India in spite of the divisive politics of the Congress coupled with machinations of Pakistan," he said. (PTI)
Octogenarians Puran Chand and Mohammad Ismail walked several kilometres from their homes to welcome Congress leader Rahul Gandhi's Bharat Jodo Yatra into Jammu and Kashmir for its final phase Thursday.
Otherwise bustling with in and out-bound vehicles round-the-clock, the Lakhanpur entry point bordering Punjab's Pathankot has been completely sealed by police with Congress workers led by senior leaders making final arrangements for the flag handover ceremony, marking the commencement of the yatra in the Union Territory.
Traffic was diverted through other routes, while the eight-km stretch of Jammu-Pathankot highway from Lakhanpur to Hatli Morh was placed out of bounds as part of the stringent security arrangements in connection with the foot march.
After the flag handover ceremony scheduled to take place at 5.45 pm at the venue which was decorated with hoardings, life-size posters and tricolours, Gandhi will start the yatra from Hatli Morh the next day. After covering Samba, Jammu, Udhampur, Anantnag and Pulwama, the yatra is scheduled to end with Gandhi hoisting the national flag at the party headquarters in Srinagar on January 30. (PTI)
Dogra Swabhiman Sangathan chairman Choudhary Lal Singh, whose decision to join the Bharat Jodo Yatra has brought the Jammu and Kashmir leg of Rahul Gandhi’s march under a cloud, has been with both the Congress and BJP and never been far from controversy.
It’s his support for the accused in the 2018 gangrape and murder of an eight-year-old tribal Bakerwal girl in Kathua that is now being used by opponents to attack the Yatra.
A minister in the then BJP-PDP government at the time, Lal Singh had joined a rally organised by the family members of the accused, along with senior Cabinet colleague Chander Parkash Ganga, and supported their demand for a CBI probe into the matter. Read More
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Thursday launched an attack against the BJP and RSS, accusing them of creating an atmosphere of hatred, violence and fear in the country.
Addressing a rally in Pathankot on the last day of the Bharat Jodo Yatra's Punjab-leg, Rahul Gandhi also alleged that the BJP was making one religion fight against another, one caste against another and one language against another. "They create fear. All of their plans (policies) cause fear to someone or something," he alleged. (PTI)
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday lauded Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu for "good work" being done in the state and said the state was forging ahead on the path of progress.
Rahul Gandhi addressed a gathering at an event related to Bharat Jodo Yatra at Malout in Indora area of Kangra district. The yatra traversed around 24 km from the Manser toll plaza to conclude at Malot village of Indora. Gandhi said Bharat Jodo Yatra' is a mission "to defeat the forces spreading hatred by spreading message of love and compassion".
"This fight is actually not political, it is a fight of ideology, one can give it any framework, but this is not a political fight," stated Rahul Gandhi. He said that Congress' reply to divisive forces is of "love". The Congress leader said that the "yatra has succeeded" because lakhs of people extended their support. Lauding Sukhu, Gandhi said the Chief Minister "is a common man" and understands the aspirations of the people. (PTI)
Jammu and Kashmir Congress Wednesday said it stands by the family of Kathua rape case victim after its spokesperson Deepika Pushkar Nath resigned from the party over its decision to "allow" an ex-minister, who had allegedly defended the accused, to join the Bharat Jodo Yatra.
Nath, a lawyer by profession, had said on Tuesday that she is leaving the Congress on "ideological grounds" as former minister Lal Singh, who is also the chairman of Dogra Swabhiman Sangathan Party (DSSP), was responsible in sabotaging the 2018 Kathua rape case by "brazenly defending" rapists of the eight-year-old nomadic girl.
"She (Deepika) announced her decision to resign from the party on Twitter. The high command has taken note and will decide on it. "However, the stand of our party on the rape and murder case is crystal clear as we stand with the family of the victim and have always favoured a fair probe to bring the culprits to book," J&K Pradesh Congress Committee chief spokesperson Ravinder Sharma told PTI.
Ahead of the Rahul Gandhi led Bharat Jodo Yatra (BJY) entering the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir (J&K), Congress spokesperson Deepika Pushkar Nath has resigned in protest against the party accepting the proposal of Dogra Swabhiman Sangathan founder Choudhary Lal Singh to join the foot march at Lakhanpur.
Pointing out that she was quitting the party on “ideological grounds”, she said Lal Singh, a former state minister, was responsible for “sabotaging the legal case” in the 2018 gang rape and murder, “by brazenly defendng” the rapists and murderers of an eight-year-old Bakerwali tribal girl in the forests of Rasana in Kathua district. Read more.
Good morning and welcome to our live blog. Follow this space for the latest on the Rahul Gandhi-led Bharat Jodo Yatra. The Congress leader Rahul Gandhi is set to arrive in Jammu and Kashmir on Thursday, kicking off the final leg of his nationwide Bharat Jodo Yatra. The yatra, led by Gandhi, will pass through J&K from January 19-30. Gandhi, who is presently in Punjab, will arrive in Kathua at around 5:45 PM today.
Take a look at today's schedule: