Bharat Jodo Yatra Highlights (January 15): Congress' Bharat Jodo Yatra resumed from Jalandhar's Lyallpur Khalsa College on Sunday afternoon, 30 hours after its suspension due to the sudden demise of the sitting Jalandhar Lok Sabha MP Santokh Singh Chaudhary. No songs, music will be played or slogans shouted when the Yatra passes from Jalandhar today due to the tragedy. Rahul Gandhi and other Congress party leaders paid their respects to late Congress MP Santokh Singh Chaudhary during his last rites at his native village Dhaliwal Kadian. His funeral was held with state honour. Chaudhary passed away after suffering a heart attack on Saturday, while participating in the Bharat Jodo Yatra in Punjab's Jalandhar. Chaudhary was rushed to a hospital in Phagwara, where he was declared brought dead. He had joined Rahul’s yatra this morning at Phillaur, prior to which he had addressed a crowd in Sarv Dharam. Meanwhile, the Congress will hold a follow-up programme to the ongoing Bharat Jodo Yatra, the 'Hath se Hath Jodo Yatra' from January 26, the party's general secretary Jairam Ramesh informed on Friday. A letter written by Rahul along with a chargesheet against the Narendra Modi government, will be distributed among the people by party leaders in a door-to-door campaign. As the Yatra reaches its final leg, Congress president Mallikarjun Khrage has written to the heads of 21 like-minded political parties, inviting them to join the concluding function in Srinagar on January 30. The list, according to sources, does not include the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), the Bharat Rashtra Samiti (BRS) led by Telangana CM K Chandrasekhar Rao (popularly known as KCR), and Ghulam Nabi Azad’s Democratic Progressive Azad Party (DPAP).
