'Bharat Jodo Yatra': Rahul Gandhi marches to 'unite India' from Kanyakumari to Kashmir

'Bharat Jodo Yatra': Rahul Gandhi has started walking from Kanyakumari in Tamil Nadu as part of the Congress' nation-wide foot march initiative called 'Bharat Jodo Yatra'.

Though it was flagged off on Wednesday, the actual march started on Thursday morning with Rahul Gandhi taking the lead.

At the launch of the yatra in Kanyakumari, Gandhi said that the national flag is "under attack" from the BJP and the RSS who see it as their "personal property", as he accused them of dividing India on the lines of religion and language.

He said millions of people feel there is a need to take action to bring the country together and that is why the 'Bharat Jodo Yatra' is being undertaken.

Gandhi has been classified as a "Bharat Yatri" and is set to walk the whole 3,570 km distance, along with 118 other leaders, to Kashmir, in what the party has touted as the biggest mass contact programme ever undertaken by it in independent India.

The yatra may take a break of a day or two when Rahul Gandhi goes for campaigning in Gujarat and Himachal Pradesh assembly polls, yatra organisation panel chief Digvijaya Singh told a press conference.

The march will cover 12 states and 2 union territories in a span of 150 days.

(with inputs from PTI)

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