: Yatra comes as morale booster for Punjab Cong wracked by rebellions #IndiaNEWS #National,Politics By Vishal GulatiChandigarh, Feb 12 (IANS) After an eight-day-long Bharat Jodo Yatra through Punjab

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By Vishal GulatiChandigarh, Feb 12 (IANS) After an eight-day-long Bharat Jodo Yatra through Punjab led by Congress leader Rahul Gandhi, the party leadership in the state seems to be back on their toes with enthused cadres to convey the message of unity at the block level by starting the Join Hands campaign.
After the mass exodus of leaders, comprising loyal and veteran lawmakers, and the sudden rise of the BJP in the state, the weakened Congress, which had faced a humiliating ouster at the hands of the greenhorn Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) in last years Assembly polls, is struggling for revival in the state.
Congress watchers feel the Bharat Jodo Yatra has energized the cadres that had been demoralized after the assembly elections rout and the mass exodus of their leaders. The yatra will usher in a change, a party leader told IANS.
You will soon see the results in the municipal elections. The assembly polls are far off. By the parliamentary elections (2024), you will see the revved up leadership and the cadres down to the grassroots, added the leader.
The eight-day Punjab leg of Rahuls yatra passed through five out of the 13 Lok Sabha seats of Punjab Fatehgarh Sahib, Ludhiana, Jalandhar, Hoshiarpur and Gurdaspur.
A day ahead of embarking on the foot march in Punjab, Rahul paid obeisance at the Golden Temple in Amritsar.
Braving the biting cold, several top functionaries of the state Congress, comprising former chief minister Charanjit Channi, party state president Amarinder Singh Raja Warring and Leader of Opposition Partap Singh Bajwa, extensively participated in the yatra with a message the yatra is not for the Congress alone, but for the country.
Donning a red turban and his trademark white half-sleeves T-shirt, Rahul Gandhi participated in the Punjab leg of the yatra from Sirhind on January 11 after paying obeisance at the historical gurdwara in Fatehgarh Sahib. The gurdwara is dedicated to the martyrdom of the two younger sons of tenth Sikh Guru Gobind Singh, who were bricked up alive by the Mughals.
On January 14, the yatra was discontinued after the demise of Congress MP Santokh Singh Chaudhary who died while walking during the yatra. The next day it resumed after Rahul and the Congress leadership attended the cremation of Chaudhary, the mass Dalit leader.
The Punjab leg of the yatra, probably the most extensively covered state after Kerala, culminated with a rally in Pathankot on January 19, before it proceeded to Jammu and Kashmir.
A day ahead of the last leg, Rahuls yatra entered Himachal Pradesh and after a night halt it returned to Punjab. He had also taken a break on January 13 in view of the Lohri festival.
Apart from interacting with intellectuals, farmers, ex-servicemen, arhtiyas, researchers and MNREGA labourers, the father of the late Sidhu Moosewala, Balkaur Singh, former AAP MP Dharamvira Gandhi and historian S Irfan Habib joined Rahul in the yatra that got an overwhelming response across the state.

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