Rahul starts 92nd day of Bharat Jodo Yatra from Rajasthan's Kota

Kota: Rahul Gandhi begins the 92nd day of the Bharat Jodo Yatra from Rajasthan's Kota, India's coaching hub. Students gathered here in large numbers to hear Rahul's address, PTI reported.

Calling the students the "future of India", he charged those gathered to raise "Bharat Jodo" slogans while the counting of votes is going on in Gujarat and Himachal Pradesh. Also, BJP is making a shining lead in Gujarat, Prime Minister Narendra Modi's home state.

He started the Yatra day by offering prayers at the Suryamukhi Hanuman Temple here at 6 am and marched the streets with Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot and former deputy Sachin Pilot.

The Yatra will conclude in Jammu and Kashmir in early February 2023, covering 3,570 km in 150 days.

In Kota, after marching for around 2.5 km from Suryamukhi Hanuman temple, Gandhi reached Rajiv Gandhi Nagar, where students of coaching institutes welcomed him.

He climbed up a stage erected for him on the roadside and spoke briefly with the students, the director of a prominent coaching institute, who was accompanying the students, said.

Besides students, party workers and locals were lined up on both sides of the road from Jagpura to the airport, a stretch of around 12.5 km to welcome him.

Gandhi was earlier scheduled to pay tributes at the statue of his father, Rajiv Gandhi, at the Rajiv Gandhi Nagar here.

He will march 24 km to reach the next yatra stop at Gudali in Bundi district, where the march is set to take a one-day break on Friday.

Rajasthan is the only Congress-ruled state where the Yatra has entered and will cover about 500 km passing through Jhalawar, Kota, Bundi, Sawai Madhopur, Dausa and Alwar districts over 17 days before entering Haryana on December 21.

The Yatra started from Kanyakumari in Tamil Nadu on September 7 and has so far covered the five southern states of Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, and Telangana, and then traversed through Maharashtra and Madhya Pradesh.