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New Delhi, Jan 10: Rahul Gandhi will offer prayers at the Golden Temple in Amritsar on Tuesday afternoon before the Bharat Jodo Yatra’s Punjab leg begins on Wednesday. The march’s segment in Haryana came to an end on Tuesday.
“Day 116 #BharatJodoYatra finishes Haryana leg in Ambala now. 2mrw morning is the Punjab leg. There can be no better way to begin that than with a pilgrimage to the holiest Golden Temple in Amritsar,” Senior Congress leader Jairam Ramesh tweeted.
Day 116 — #BharatJodoYatra finishes Haryana leg in Ambala now. 2mrw morning is Punjab leg. There can be no better way to begin that than with a pilgrimage to holiest Golden Temple in Amritsar. There’ll be no padyatra this afternoon so that @RahulGandhi can pay his respects there.
— Jairam Ramesh (@Jairam_Ramesh) January 10, 2023
Rahul Gandhi started his morning march on foot from Shahpur in Ambala Cantt.
On Thursday, the Yatra arrived in Panipat, Haryana, from neighbouring Uttar Pradesh. Later, it travelled through the districts of Karnal and Kurukshetra, before coming to an end in the Ambala district.
The Punjab portion of the Yatra will stop in New Anaj Mandi, Sirhind in Fatehgarh Sahib, Punjab, on Tuesday night, and continue from there on Wednesday morning.
Senior Congress members included Bhupinder Singh Hooda, Kumari Selja, Randeep Singh Surjewala, Deepender Singh Hooda, and State Congress Chairman Udai Bhan, among those who joined Rahul Gandhi on the Haryana leg of the Yatra.
As the march travelled across Haryana, more regular people joined it.
From December 21 to December 23, the Yatra travelled more than 130 miles across the districts of Nuh, Gurugram, and Faridabad in Haryana. It left Uttar Pradesh on Thursday evening and returned to Haryana via Panipat.
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The Yatra, which began on September 7 in Kanyakumari, Tamil Nadu, will come to an end on January 30 in Srinagar, with Mr. Gandhi waving the national flag in Jammu and Kashmir’s summer capital. Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Delhi, Uttar Pradesh, and Haryana have all been visited by the march thus far.
